NURSING SPECIALIZATION IN THE RESIDENCE MODELS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCE OF GRADUATES (Atena Editora)

Abstract

Nursing residencies are a Postgraduate modality, in the form of Specialization, in the form of In-Service Training, for Nurses, in the Residency Models, which provides a scholarship and sets the workload of 60 week hours. The present study aims to describe the experience lived in the personal and professional trajectory from the perspective of the graduates of the postgraduate course in Nursing in the form of Residency, in the area of ​​concentration in Clinical and Surgical, of ‘’Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro’’, who completed the course in the period between 2020 and 2022. This is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach. Which had as participants the nurses, residents, from the last 3 groups and the interviews were carried out in person, through a semi-structured instrument (questionnaire), with the interviewee. The research followed the ethical precepts established by CNS resolutions number: 466 and number: 510, and was approved with opinion number: 5,534,194. For data analysis, Bardin's content analysis technique was used. The sociodemographic results of the interviewees were: mostly female (83.3%), single marital status (66.7%) and less than 5 years since graduation (75%). After exploring the material, two categories were selected: 1st) Professional Career - subdivided into three subcategories, Skills and Competences, Education and Training; and, 2nd) Personal Trajectory, with three other subcategories, Experiences, Interpersonal Relationships and Social Condition. We concluded that there are dualities between feeling satisfied with the completion of the course and feeling frustrated with some theoretical contents, which form the basis for professional practices, with the personal relationship with the team in which they are inserted, among others. However, it was unanimous among the graduates that doing residency was a unique opportunity in their lives and for the development of most of the professional skills required of nurses, but further studies on the subject are needed.