Academic performance beyond the metrics: A qualitative content analysis of nursing students' perceptions.

AIM: To explore the undergraduate nursing students' perceptions about the factors influencing their academic performance. BACKGROUND: Academic performance is the measure for the achievement of learning objectives and skills development. Thus, the literature on nursing education has already pointed out the factors associated with this construct. However, it is essential to understand the in-depth influencers of academic performance from the perspective of nursing students. For this, it is essential to analyze not only numerical indicators, but also to understand the perceptions of undergraduate students about the factors that can influence this performance. DESIGN: Descriptive study with qualitative approach. METHODS: Twenty-two undergraduate nursing students were recruited from a Brazilian public university. Interviews were collected and submitted to Content Analysis, thematic modality, and discussed according to references of critical and humanist education. RESULTS: Two thematic categories emerged from the interviews representing the students' perceptions: 1. The student - history and relationships, with the thematic axis quality of previous education, intrafamily processes and roles, family support, socioeconomic aspects, interpersonal relationships, copping with difficulties, mental health, and physical well-being; and 2. Academic experiences and their challenges, with the thematic axis academic adaptation, professor's didactics and preparation, structure and support provided by the University, management of study time, and participation in extracurricular activities. The students saw them as intervening factors in their academic performance, physical and psychological well-being, established interpersonal relationships (including the relation with peers and professors), family structure, socioeconomic aspects, academic conditions, and the transition to higher education. CONCLUSION: From the perspective of students, socio-historical aspects and constructs established in relationships with colleagues and professors at the university are directly related to their academic performance and directly influence their ability to achieve the proposed learning objectives and acquire essential competencies for their education.

Processo de trabalho e gestão da produção de máscaras e aventais na pandemia do SARS-CoV-2 / Work process and production management of masks and aprons in the SARS-COV-2 pandemic

Objetivo: Relatar a experiência de discentes de enfermagem em uma unidade de produção de equipamentos de proteção individual durante a pandemia do SARS-CoV-2. Metodologia: Relato de experiência de um estágio curricular obrigatório desenvolvido em uma cidade do Centro-Oeste do Brasil, no ano de 2020. Resultados: Tal trabalho baseou-se nos aspectos vivenciados pelos discentes, durante um período de cinco meses. Os resultados foram organizados em três perspectivas, sendo essas a contextualização do Projeto EPI-UFG, a análise da gestão em conjunto com o processo de trabalho e de recurso e as ações interprofissionais no desenvolvimento de máscaras de proteção descartáveis e aventais. Conclusão: Notou-se a indissociabilidade da gestão frente aos processos de trabalho e recursos, concomitantemente com a importância da enfermagem atuante nas diversas frentes de ocupação, além de demonstrar as habilidades desenvolvidas pelos discentes no projeto em questão.

Objective: To report the nursing students experience in a production unit of personal protective equipment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Methodology: Experience report of a mandatory curricular internship developed in a city in the Midwest of Brazil, in the year 2020. Results: This work was based on the aspects experienced by students, during five months. The results were organized in three perspectives, about the contextualization of the EPI-UFG Project, the management analysis together with the work process and resources and the interprofessional actions in the development of disposable protective masks and aprons. Conclusion: It was noted the inseparability of management of the work processes and resources, concomitantly with the importance of nursing acting in the various fronts of occupation, in addition to demonstrating the skills developed by students in the project in question.