Abstract

MARTINEZ-MALO GUTIERREZ, Nora Helena et al. Updating of the syllabus of the subject Mother and Child Care in the Nursing discipline. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.6, pp.1090-1100. ISSN 1561-3194.

Introduction: the syllabus of the subject Mother and Child Care is centered on the health of women, children and adolescents and family planning, among others. Its primary purpose is to help raise the standard of health and the degree of satisfaction of the population through prevention, promotion, protection and recovery in pregnant women and in other women, children and adolescents. Objective: to update the syllabus of the subject Mother and Child Care in the Nursing discipline. Methods: a pedagogic research was conducted, which assumes the materialist dialectical method as center of the research; other methods were used such as theoretical and historical-logical, systemic-structural, induction, deduction and the method of modeling and others from empirical level such as document analysis, surveys and interviews, observing the teaching process of nursing, as well as statistical methods. Results: there are difficulties in updating the contents of the syllabus of the subject Mother and Child Care in the Nursing discipline, and also with the professional’s role model; all of which affect the development of the educational process, the acquisition of knowledge and skills in the discipline. Actions validated by experts to update these contents were designed. Conclusions: actions were designed to improve the educational process in the Nursing discipline, from the contents related to the syllabus of the subject Mother and Child Care, from the educational point of view and from the methodological and professional development.

Keywords : Nursing; Medical education; Maternal-child health services.

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