Author(s)

Diana Paula de Souza Rego Pinto Carvalho¹, Anna Lúcia Dantas¹, Anna Larissa de de Castro Rego¹, Gabriela Assunção da Costa Mafra Souza¹, Isabelle Campos de Azevedo¹, Giovanna Karinny Pereira Cruz¹, Priscila Fernandes Meireles¹, Allyne Forte Vitor¹, Maria Lúcia Ivo², Marcos Antonio Ferreira Júnior¹

¹Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brasil.
²Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brasil.

The university monitoring is an auxiliary activity of educational support offered to students interested in deepening content and solving questions about the topics learned in the classroom, as well as an opportunity for the development in the student-monitor relationship next to the teaching practice. This study aimed to report the experience lived by the student-monitors linked to monitoring project entitled “Interdisciplinary for improving the quality of education: Physiology, Anatomy and Pathology for Clinical Nursing teaching”. It is an experience report experienced by student-monitors linked to the project developed for curriculum component Comprehensive Health Care I, taught in the fifth period of the Undergraduate Nursing course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This project has four stages: preparation of laboratories and fellows training, construction and application of clinical cases, development of simulations in the laboratory with the students and the final evaluation of the changing process in curriculum practice. The monitoring project has provided contact with a simulation environment for students, for the development of skills and attitudes in solving clinical nursing problems through an innovative approach to integrating disciplinary learning in the classroom and development initiation skills in student-monitors teaching. The approximate relationship with the teacher allows the exchange of knowledge, which makes proactive student-monitor in the very process of teaching and learning, as well as the teacher provides the formation of a more qualified and secure professional for the exercise of appropriate assistance.

Monitoring, Learning and Teaching, Clinical Nursing, Interdisciplinary Research

Carvalho, D. , Dantas, A. , de Castro Rego, A. , da Costa Mafra Souza, G. , de Azevedo, I. , Cruz, G. , Meireles, P. , Vitor, A. , Ivo, M. and Júnior, M. (2015) Interdisciplinary in Promoting Improvements in the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Clinical Nursing. Creative Education, 6, 1874-1878. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.617192.