Atributos da atratividade e retenção para a carreira docente em enfermagem

Abstract

Improving the efficiency of training devices depends, to a large extent, on ensuring that competent people want to work as teachers and that their teaching is of high quality, and it is important that it is a competitive profession, to compete with other occupations for these talented people. The objective of this study is to analyze the elements of attractiveness and retention of teachers in nursing education. This is an exploratory and descriptive research, with a qualitative approach with mixed methods in research procedures developed in two phases. The first phase was a bibliographical research carried out through a scoping review, aiming to identify the elements of attractiveness and retention for the teaching profession. In the second phase, a workshop was held using the methodology of deliberative dialogue, between interested actors (stakeholders), informed by a synthesis of evidence, to identify the priority elements and strategies for attractiveness and retention in the teaching career, discussing current conditions work experience of these professionals and their future expectations in relation to this profession; and to describe the strategies and benefits that educational institutions use or could use to attract and retain teachers who work in the area of nursing training, based on the perception of local managers of public and private educational institutions in the area; and prioritizing the attributes constructed from the scope review. According to the data analyzed, the elements for attractiveness and retention in the nursing teaching career were grouped into four categories: monetary incentives, non-monetary incentives, career structure and job characteristics. The evidence was validated and the attributes were prioritized in the dialogue. During the discussion held, it was evident that the elements of attractiveness and retention found in studies carried out in other countries are similar to the national scenario and that monetary and non-monetary strategies can be studied and implemented, based on research on the local reality, aiming promote attraction and retention for the nursing teaching career in the country.