INTEGRATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY PRACTICES IN TRAINING: VISION OF NURSING GRADUATES.
Complementary Therapies. Nursing. Education. Integrative and
Complementary Practices. Patient-centered nursing. To educate.
Objective: To know the perceptions of graduates of a nursing course on the teaching of integrative and complementary practices during graduation. Method: Qualitative study, conducted in 2019, with graduates of a nursing course. Data were collected through individual interviews, recorded and transcribed. The data were analyzed manually following a script with four distinct stages: search for explicit, implicit ideas, survey of registration units and identification of categories. Results: three categories were found: paradigms that support health training for PICS, presenting the initial difficulty in expanding the vision of care beyond the biomedical model, immersing itself in the emotional, spiritual and energetic aspects necessary to understand traditional medicine; the applicability of PICS in nursing care, revealing a gap in curricular integration between theoretical knowledge and fields of practice; and the challenges of a curriculum that offers the teaching of PICS at graduation. Final considerations: Based on these data, it can be inferred that the curricular matrix that offers the teaching of PICS, is called interdisciplinarity in the sense of expanding the vision of care beyond the biomedical model, and in this way this vision can permeate the entire matrix and occasionally in the discipline that teaches PICS, enabling the visualization and application of these therapies in the fields of nursing practice.