PERCEPTIONS OF SENIOR STUDENTS REGARDING RESEARCH IN NURSING AT THE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/217976927746

Objective: to investigate the perceptions of senior students about research in nursing at undergraduate level. Method: qualitative study, with data collected from a questionnaire applied to 81 senior students of the nursing course of a Higher Education Institution from a city of Bahia, Brazil. The sample was simple random probabilistic. Data was analyzed with the technique of Thematic Content Analysis. This study was approved by the Ethics in Research Committee - Report nº 039/2009. Results: the senior students consider that there are deficits on teaching methodologies and pedagogical practices of professors related to encouraging undergraduate scientific initiation and research production. Almost half of the sample did not conduct research during their studies, and almost the entire sample did not publish research. Conclusion: more emphasis is to be given on educating in favor of research, so that the tripod teaching-research-extension may be present in the studied Nursing Course’s Institution.