title: [Clinical practice and formation in community nursing].
abstract: Health is understood as a complex phenomenon, related to multiple causes linked to factors which have diverse biological, psychological, economic and social natures. Among these and individuals' behavior a causal relationship is established, converting those individual decision-making processes into fundamental health which bears evidence on the necessity for health professionals to be prepared for this new reality. Community nursing clinical contexts comprise the first line of priorities to deal with this problem. The objective of this article is to comprehend how the process to prepare nursing professionals for clinical practice in community nursing occurs in a Superior School of Nursing in Portugal. This study is of an exploratory and descriptive nature. Interviews were carried out and later their content was analyzed. Based on the results, the authors noticed the need to redirect teaching in order to form professionals who attend to the needs of the population, who work in teams, and who, mainly succeed in dialoging according to the Paulo Freire perspective. The authors conclude that it is necessary to create a greater coherence between what is taught and what occurs in the context of clinical practice, in other words, that the school world carries on a dialogue with the working, clinical practice world and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Enfermeira do Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. sandra@smail.ufsm.br
authors.forename: Sandra Marcia
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Soares Schmidt
authors.forename: Maria Arminda Silva Mendes
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Carneiro Costa
authors.forename: Vânia Marli
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Schubert Backes
authors.forename: Cartana Maria do Horto
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fontoura
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*