Understanding of nursing students about collaborative work

Abstract

Objective: to identify the understanding of nursing students in relation to collaborative work. Methods: a descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach, semi-structured interview, held in a Faculty of Curitiba-PR. It included 30 nursing students. Results: through Bardin Content analysis we identified the following categories: collaborative work seen as teamwork; collaborative work between the nursing staff: areas of use; decision-making: understanding the academic students; shared decision: understanding the academic students. Conclusion: collaboration opens an increasing space and positive valuation for individuals, as well as to get different results when it's compared with those obtained by individual effort, the relationship between the members of the group operates on a constructive dependence in terms of valuing the other.