Importance of the Mandatory Supervised Curricular Internship for academic training in the nursing course – Experience report

Abstract

Considered to be the most important moment in the undergraduate course, the supervised internship is important for the student to be able to actually relate practice and theory. This is the moment when the student starts to experience their future reality as a professional, observing the work of the nurse as a professional in their historical context, under the supervision of the nurse and tutored by the teacher. The aim of this paper is to report on the importance of the Compulsory Supervised Curricular Internship for academic training in the undergraduate nursing course. This is a descriptive study of the experience report type, based on the experience of a 5th year undergraduate student in Nursing at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), this work used bibliographic research in the Scielo and Google Scholar databases as a method. The purpose of the supervised internship is for us to be able to apply and relate all the theory studied during the undergraduate course, a stage in which this student is inserted into the health services and will develop the skills necessary for a professional in this category. As a result, we experienced moments in the work environment as well as the conduct of the nurses responsible in the Basic Health Unit, in addition to all the learning acquired over the three-month period. Finally, it can be concluded that the opportunity to learn from professionals in their daily lives adds directly to the learning that was lacking for the student to acquire a greater wealth of confidence and knowledge.