Institutional police of continued education: a challenge in construction

Abstract

This paper resultant of the inquiry has as an objective to describe and analyze the exercise of the construction process of a Political Institutional Continued Education in the University Hospital of the south region of Brazil. It was a qualitative research, which involved direction members, services coordinators and participants of the continued education programs of the administrative, medical and nursing fields. The data collection was achieved by the focal group technique, through the problem methodology developed in the period March-July of 2005. As problems were distinguished:  communication deficiency, interpersonal relationship and the un-preparedness of the professionals for the management. In conclusion it was revealed, as necessities for the construction of an institutional continued education policy: the importance of interaction among the three areas and the involvement of the general direction; to supply partnerships among the education departments and the University Hospital; and to consider the continued education as inherent to work, making use of the job schedule for such. The creation of commissions was related as a strategy to operate these actions.