[Nursing training and the drugs phenomenon in the South of Brazil: nursing students' attitudes and beliefs on care].
This is a descriptive study about the formation of nurses regarding to the drug phenomenon. It was conducted with last periods students of Nursing Schools from five Federal Educational Institutions in southern Brazil. It presents and discusses Nursing students attitudes and beliefs about care, when facing the drug phenomenon. The data collection happened from October 2003 to February 2004, with intentional sample constituted of 105 students. An instrument was applied to them, with a scale asking about nurses attitudes and beliefs regarding to alcoholism and drugs. The study showed that the students understand knowledge about the drug phenomenon as fundamental to the profession, and they incorporate the care of people involved with psychoactive substances, as nurses role. The study also showed clearly a disarticulation between theory and practice, course s contents centered on medical and moral models, and interpersonal communication difficulties.
Carraro
Telma Elisa
TE
Departamento e da Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, UFSC. telmacarraro@nfr.ufsc.br
Rassool
Goolan Hussein
GH
Luis
Margarita Antonia Villar
MA
D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D013338:Students, Nursing; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders