title: [Health promotion and nursing education, which challenges? Case of the nurse in a Swiss University of Applied Sciences].
abstract: This work presents a research undertaken for a diploma of Master in social sciences in connexion with the conceptions of HES new graduate nurses concerning health promotion. An inductive qualitative approach has been used to explore the influence of the alternation training within the University of Applied Sciences of Health arc on their professionalisation. In addition to the semi-directing interviews, an understanding maintenance in group has been led to account for the reflexivity and difficulties of the new graduates. The results show that they spontaneously refer to the global health model, but are confused when asked to define the concept of health promotion. The practical training seems to be less professionalized in this precise field, in connection with a prevalence of the biomedical model and the nurses' increased workload. We identify socialization in the places of acute care. The results show that the formation at school accurately prepared the nurses to exert their role as a "reflexive practitioner" who takes into account the complexity of the various determinants of health with respect to the situations of care, although the lessons remain very abstract. The analysis of the results show that professionalisation of HES nurses is hesitant and fragile in the field of the promotion of health, due to several conceptual, epistemic, organisational and political factors. A "project-actions" has been worked out and has raised some levers and obstacles with its realisation. This research opens on other tracks of research, which could be able to explore more accurately the difficulties and obstacles at school and on the spot for practise and their influence on the professionalisation of the nurses-to-be.
authors.affiliation: Haute Ecole de Santé ARC BEJUNE (Berne -Jura-Neuchâtel). Naamat.Messmer-AIAbed@he-arc.ch
authors.forename: Naamat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Messmer-Al Abed
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009726:Nurses; D016526:Workload