Telling stories to teach nursing undergraduate students how to approach the sick child

Abstract

The development of didactic strategies that approach the student of Nursing of the daily scene of the hospital, through the use of literature and cinema, has conquered space and prominence in the literature of Nursing Education. The aim of this study is to present and to describe a proposal of integration of the theoretical content of approaching the critically sick child, and the book' Oscar e a Senhora Rosa.'. This is a lived experience of the author, which introduced the reading of a chapter of the book to each lesson given in the discipline of Pediatric Nursing, ministered to the students of the third year of Nursing Undergraduate School of a private University in the city of São Paulo. After reading the book, the author provided a time for reflection and discussion about the relationship between the actors and the different forms of approach to the patient and family and the principles taught in the expositive classes. This strategy revealed itself to be very useful and recommended to approach the undergraduate nursing student of the reality of the critically sick patient, providing strategies for them to act in this context