Análise dos currículos de Graduação em Enfermagem com relação ao ensino na Saúde Indígena em Roraima.

Abstract

Roraima is one of the Brazilian states belonging to the Amazon region which concentrates the majority of the indigenous population of the country. Currently living in Roraima state about sixty thousand Indians distributed in two health districts which represent 12% of the total state population. Based on legal documents of indigenous legislation, indigenous legislation was based on three paradigms: the extermination, integration or assimilation and finally, the paradigm of interaction with the recognition of native rights and expansion of collateral which was only possible after the advent of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the creation of the Subsystem Health Care through the Arouca Law. The concept of health and disease for the indigenous peoples involves different cultural patterns, have mystical and symbolic characteristics and so if a particularized assistance is needed. This study aimed to understand how nurses are prepared in undergraduate degree in nursing to work in the indigenous area and intends to contribute to the reflection on the degree of qualification of nurses for a differentiated assistance, considering the relevance of the specificities of the indigenous population. The main question investigated in this study as they are structured nursing curriculum in educational institutions in relation to indigenous health. Its main objective was to analyze the nursing undergraduate curricula in relation to education in Indigenous Health in Roraima, identifying the inclusion of indigenous health issue in the curricula and identifying educational strategies related to education in Indigenous Health. This is a documental analysis that sought to build on the concepts and assumptions of several authors expressed in Primary Care National Policy and the National Policy of Permanent Education in Health adopted by the Ministry of Health, the aspects specifically aimed at the indigenous population. It was concluded that it is necessary to raise awareness among social actors working in education in health, implementing measures to promote health and prevent disease and injury, with greater involvement of institutions in indigenous issues, needing to do so, review the training of future nursing professionals, qualifying them to work together with these people and deepen the discussion on policies for indigenous issues with policy makers in this area.