Integração ensino-serviço-comunidade: concepções atribuídas pelos estudantes de enfermagem

The purpose of this study was to analyze the conceptions of teaching-service-community integration attributed by nursing students. This is an exploratory, comprehensive, qualitative, case-study-based study conducted in a nursing undergraduate course at a university in the north of Parana. Data collection took place in October 2014 and August 2015, through focus groups, involving 37 students. The focus groups were recorded, transcribed in full and submitted to Bardin content analysis. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the university under study with CAAE n ° 18931613.5.0000.5231. From the conceptions of teaching-service-community integration described by the students emerged four categories: conceptions about teaching; advancing towards teaching-service integration; integrating teaching and community; and understanding teaching-service-community integration. The conceptions about teaching-service and community involved the integration between different courses in the health area, the first contact with the service and health professionals, the multiprofissional teamwork, the understanding of the human being as a whole, as well as the relation between theory and practice at different levels of attention. The results were discussed according to Edgar Morin’s complex thought. We emphasize the importance of the teaching-service-community Integration in the training of nurses in a process shared between educational institutions, nurses and other professionals in the health area, as well as with the community