title: [Nursing for indigenous people: applying curricular guidelines].
abstract: Report on the Curricular Internship II in a Rural Indian Community, performed by students of the Nursing program from Manaus Nursing School--Federal University of Amazonas, carried out from October through December, 2002. It provided students with an opportunity to understand the health-disease process in Indian areas and to make nursing interventions. The training period was divided into three phases: a preparatory week, including meetings and lectures with the team delivering health care to Indian populations, and a seminar/report on the activities performed. Students reported that nurses need to have anthropological, ecological, and social knowledge in order to understand the health-disease process. This internship period provides emancipatory education, centered around a kind of regional reality, and follows recommendations established in current curricular guidelines, by favoring a teaching practice focused on local realities.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Escola de Enfermagem de Manaus.
authors.forename: Nair Chase
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Maria Jacirema Ferreira
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Goncalves
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lopes Neto
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous