Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

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The experience narrated here had its origin in the crises and tensions present in the everyday work of a basic health care unit. It was also the result of an effort to change conflict into "care" for the entire team. For this purpose, two practices that were structured to respond to these challenges gave origin to a wider project in permanent health education, called "Caring for the Carer". This initiative attempted to encourage and propagate values and feelings that are normally ignored in processes of education at work. By giving visibility to these inter-subjective dimensions, it was possible to bring to light some essential issues related to the role of carer that should be assumed by the health professional. With the help of socio-dramatic resources in different areas of the project, we also generated a sensitization movement that begins with the professional and his/her identity as a person, includes the recognition of the Other (colleague and patient) and reaches a wider collective, i.e. the institutional one. The project development helped us to understand that the humanization of our services requires the recognition that we, carers, are also human and fragile.

The article deals with the professionalization of the community health agent's activity in the context of the social reforms formulated during Brazil's return to democracy in the 80s and 90s, with emphasis on the Brazilian sanitary reform. The central argument is that there is a relationship between the projects for the renovation of social practices in health - such as the reorganization of basic health care through the Programmes of Community Health Agents (Pacs) and Family Health (PSF) - and the emergence of a new category of health worker that requires specific professional training and regulation of the activity in the health labour market. First, we look at the context in which the health social policies were defined as part of the development of a social citizenship, based on the principles of universality and equality between beneficiaries. In a second stage, we deal with the emergence of these new agents, the role they play in the changes taking place in the production of health and the State's role in producing norms to regulate the activity and its participation in the health labour market. Finally, we reflect upon the challenges that the recent regulation of the profession has brought for the professional training of health workers, challenges that contribute to the implementation of the Family Health strategy and help to consolidate the process of sectorial reform.

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar resultados preliminares da produção científica sobre a formação profissional do enfermeiro divulgada em periódicos científicos brasileiros. As fontes deste estudo são a Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem e a Revista Mineira de Enfermagem (Reme), escolhidas entre 129 periódicos brasileiros na área da enfermagem, cujos textos completos estão disponibilizados on-line no Portal de Periódicos da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes). Entre editoriais, artigos de pesquisa, artigos originais, revisões bibliográficas, relatos de experiências, notas/informativos, foram selecionados 36 textos da Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem e 15 da Reme. A análise desse material compreendeu a leitura dos resumos para a identificação do tema central - formação do enfermeiro - e a leitura dos textos completos selecionados, da qual emergiram três núcleos temáticos: fundamentos pedagógicos, ensino de enfermagem e currículo. A análise das produções evidencia uma articulação entre a formação e as recentes políticas públicas para saúde e educação, representando contribuições relevantes para repensar o perfil profissional do enfermeiro a ser formado e a proposta curricular desenvolvida nas instituições de ensino de nível superior.

This article discusses the theoretical and conceptual premises that serve as guidelines for the program of the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic Health School course on Professional Education on Administration of Health Services. The article simultaneously describes how the administration of health services was assembled, seeking to identify the knowledge required of technicians in administration of health services, and debates the configuration that was designed for professional education since the promulgation of the Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação (Education Guidelines and Principles Act), of 1996. In the end, the article proposes the creation of a sequential course comprised of crossing axes which seek to train independent professionals that comply with the proposed changes, especially those regarding decentralization, regionalization and democratization in health administration.

This article's main objective is to present the different meanings that the term employability has acquired both at the conception and throughout the development of training policies for the work force in Brazil in the 1990's, a process which was highly influenced by neoliberal thinking. In order to do so, we minutely examined various documents produced by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labor and Employment and the Ministry of Health, particularly those documents that touched upon education and training policies and the implementation of such policies. The conclusion is that education, particularly while administered by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labor and Employment, was one of the major means through which the notion of employability was disseminated. Another conclusion is that the use of this notion has conditioned thinking and behavior in educational processes and labor relations. The Ministry of Health also applied the notion of political employability of workers in the attempt of minimizing the impact of the lack of qualification of the work force in the area of health.

A miragem da pós-modernidade: democracia e políticas sociais no contexto da globalização. Silvia Gerschman e Maria Lúcia Werneck Vianna. Rio de Janeiro: Fiocruz, 2003, 227 pp.

Qualificação profissional: uma tarefa de Sísifo. Cláudia Mattos Kober Campinas/SP: Autores Associados, 2004, 172 pp.  

Entrevista: Atilio Borón