dc.description.abstract | In Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde (RMS), preceptor has been usually
performed two roles, health professional and supervisor of practices, developing
both assistance and teaching activities. The aim of study is to identify the
preceptors‟ profile of RMS Program, with concentration area in Adult Intensive
Care, at the University Hospital Onofre Lopes – UFRN – EBSERH and the
difficulties they have faced in performance of their activities. This is a field
study, descriptive, in which for its development it was used a semi-structured
and self-administered questionnaire, with a pre-established script to be
answered by preceptors, in a secretive manner, with a sample for convenience.
The answers related to the open questions were analyzed using the Bardin
Categorical Thematic Content Analysis. All participants signed the Informed
Consent Term. The sample was composed by 52 professionals from several
health areas, mostly women, with a mean age by 38 years. The professionals
had an average training time of 14 years, and a mean time in exercise of
preceptor of four years. In analysis of open questions, after exhaustive material
reading, four categories raised, classified a priori as "Motivation", "Role of the
Preceptor", "Challenges" and "Propositions". Thus, the results have indicated
that the most of preceptors are not fulfilled with their preceptor status, neither
they feel able to perform this function, although have revealed a willingness to
qualify; there is little incentive to technical training and for technical activities;
excessive working hours, with lack of adaptation to the preceptory reality; there
is also difficulties related to infrastructure, which it have been considered
inadequate to the teaching, and, finally, to the proposals of improvements in
order to the minimize these difficulties. Part of these results are corroborated by
the literature reports in similar RMS programs, which it have indicated as main
difficulties, lack of professional and financial incentive and absence of
conciliation between assistance and preceptory. In this way, it was created and
sent a Scientific Technical Report to the institutional managers, in order to
suggest a unity between them, the program coordinators and preceptors, with
the view to overcome these difficulties. | |