The view of a student experiencing the nursing integrated curriculum: an existential analysis - doi: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v11i5.17057

Abstract

This research aimed to unfold the reality experienced by the first class of the Nursing Integrated Curriculum at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina. This is a qualitative research guided by Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology approach carried out with 10 students. Results showed that the students felt insecure and afraid, comparing themselves to guinea pigs. They endured competitive games by confronting truths and looking for external recognition. They fought for a larger number of books in the library, for internship fields and tried to find their identities facing a new way of being in the classroom. They revealed their opinions dealing with the fear of being exposed and criticized by using new tools and achieving more self-confidence while occupying new existential spaces. The meaning of being an apprentice revealed itself as a constant construction that begins in the moment they choose which course to take at the Vestibular test and does not ever cease.