title: Moral suffering among nurse educators of technical courses in nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to understand situations of moral suffering experienced at work by nurse educators of technical courses in nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  a qualitative study with discursive textual analysis by means of semi-structured interviews with ten nurse educators at two professional educational institutions in southern Brazil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  two categories were established: lack of commitment on the part of students to the future profession, expressed through disrespect and disregard for the work of nurse educators, with inappropriate behaviors and attitudes; and lack of commitment to the learning-teaching process, expressed by indifference to the professional profile and lack of interest in lessons and care practices associated with learning gaps.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  these situations have an impact on experiences of moral suffering by nurse educators, and show a need for rethinking their practice, relationships, and educational spaces, and implementing strategies to favor the confrontation of dilemmas and conflicts experienced in educational practice in technical courses in nursing.
authors.affiliation: Technical Course in Nursing, Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carla Godinho
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Duarte
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valéria Lerch
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Lunardi
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rosemary Silva da
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Silveira
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Edson Luiz Devos
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Barlem
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Graziele de Lima
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Dalmolin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009014:Morals; D059017:Primary Care Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires