Tutorial education program: reflexes in the training of graduate nurses

Created in 1979, the Tutorial Education Program (PET - Programa de Educação Tutorial, in Portuguese) aims to ensure students experience opportunities not present in conventional curricular structures, aiming at their global training and expanding academic training, both for the integration in the professional market and development of studies in graduate programs. This study aimed to investigate the role of the PET-Nursing group in the post-training moment of petians who graduated from the Nursing course of the Federal University of Amapá in relation to the labor market and the demands experienced in daily professional life. This is an exploratory study of quantitative-qualitative character through a structured questionnaire using a computerized technology, Google forms. The analysis of quantitative responses occurred through descriptive analysis with the construction of tables and graphs and qualitative responses through content analysis allowing the construction of categories of analysis. A total of 36 graduates of the program participated in the study, 11 males and 26 females. The highest percentage of the participants in this study is inserted in the professional market, with variable income of 3-5 minimum wages. The data show that a significant part is inserted in graduate programs (residences, MSc, PhD). The perception regarding participation in the program is positive, with several aspects developed/improved in graduates such as teamwork, leadership, interpersonal relationship, responsibility, ability to plan and organize, communication, social awareness. PET provides students with a differentiated training, which seeks to achieve, through the university tripod (teaching, research and extension) a global training because during the program, participants develop multiple skills, contributing to the training of high-level professionals for all segments of the labor market, in addition to improving the quality of higher education.