Monitoria acadêmica: oferta, desafios e importância nos cursos de Enfermagem

Abstract

Introduction: Academic monitoring is an educational action carried out by students of undergraduate courses that contribute to the construction of specific knowledge about the course and about the initiation to teaching. It is relevant for the training of nurses who assume the role of educator at various times. Objective: It aims to discuss the contribution of academic monitoring in the training of students, mainly in the nursing course, and to identify, based on the Pedagogical Projects of the Courses, how academic monitoring programs are offered in nursing courses at public universities in Minas Gerais. Methodology: Documentary research with a qualitative approach carried out from data collection and selection of sources, which are documents of political pedagogical projects of the courses, then performed the interpretation and analysis of the collected data. Results: Academic monitoring was present in all the pedagogical political projects analyzed, in addition, the information approved in the PPCs is deficient. Conclusion: Academic monitoring is an important activity for the training of nurses, especially for those who intend to act as teachers and is foreseen in all PPCs of the courses of degree analyzed. However, it is a little publicized action and used as a theme in scientific publications.