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CICAD Schools of Nursing Project on Prevention of Drug Use and Abuse, Social Integration, and Health Promotion in Latin America and the Caribbean |
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II Regional Nursing Research Capacity Building |
II
Regional Research
Capacity-Building Program for Nurses from Latin
America to Study the Drug Phenomenon
I.
Introduction
The economic, political and social dimensions of
healthcare transcend national borders. Global
interdependence among international actors has
considerably increased the mobility among countries
and regions around the world, which has affected the
access and use of healthcare services as well as
their infrastructure. In this way, international and
non-governmental organizations have played an
important role in the development of international
cooperation policies and initiatives aiming at
decreasing inequities and solving problems that have
increasingly become globalized, such as is the
problem concerning drug abuse. In post-modernity,
the challenges in the healthcare area require a new
approach in the education of professionals
performing in this field by means of innovative
strategies and integrated conceptual models which
will privilege the development of leadership,
particularly in nursing.
The nurse’s field of work also involves actions
aiming at assisting the population’s needs
concerning the fight against the use of illegal
drugs in all phases of its process.
Nurses can, therefore, act in the leadership and
management of research projects and programs, in
projects and programs for the assistance of the
population’s specific needs as well as in the
direct care of individuals and specific groups in
the community, in addition to influencing existing
public policies.
The drug-related phenomenon represents a new field
for nurses’ professional performance which
presently faces, particularly in Latin America, a
serious predicament in relation to the use and
trafficking of illegal drugs. Such predicament has
also changed the demographic and epidemiological
situation of various communities due to the high
levels of urban violence resulting form that
practice.
In the context of nursing education in
Undergraduate, Master and Doctoral levels, the
University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College
of Nursing has been regionally, nationally and
internationally distinguished. With the recognition
of its excellence in research, it has been a WHO
Collaborating Center for Nursing Research
Development since 1988.
Therefore, considering the impacts that the
drug-related phenomenon has caused in Latin America
and the goals of the Inter-American Drug Abuse
Control
Commission (CICAD) as well as the characteristics of
the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto
College of Nursing, with its large experience in
nursing education, we would like to propose the
Training Project for Latin American Nursing
Professionals to be made official by means of an
agreement between the two participating
institutions.
Level:
Specialization
Number
of Hours:
420 hours
Type
of program:
Intensive with two pedagogical modalities: on-site
and distance learning
Duration:
May 2003- May 2004
Modality:
Part I – On
site; Part II – Distance Learning
Faculty involved: University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursi
National
Consultants: International
Consultants: LA, US
It introduces the student to health studies in a
macro context, as part of International Relations in
the light of the international dimension of the
healthcare field, transposing such knowledge to a
micro dimension, that is, to national and local
dimensions aiming at relating these two dimensions
to the drug-related phenomenon in the world and in
the Americas. The topics to be approached in Module
I are: (i) the globalization process and its
influence in the field of healthcare and
development; (ii) the role of international and
non-governmental organizations in health promotion
and development; (iii) conceptual bases and models
for International Health and for the drug-related
phenomenon.
Period:
1
week , 7 hours/day – Monday to Saturday
Place:
University
of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto/ College of Nursing
Number
of Hours:
42 hours
Module
II
The Drug-Related Phenomenon and the Use of
Science and Technology in the Development of
Policies Influencing the Decision-Making Process
It studies the drug-related phenomenon in Latin
America focusing on its economic, political, social
and epidemiological dimensions and presenting the
process of creation of the Multilateral Evaluation
Mechanism/MEM from CICAD/OAS for drug control in the
Americas as well as the possibilities for the
creation of national and international cooperation
networks as sources of information, qualification
and continual support to the study of the
drug-related phenomenon. The topics studied in
Module II are: (i) The drug phenomenon in Latin
America: economic, political, social and
epidemiological dimensions; (ii) Intervention models
and specific treatments; (iii) Prevention models;
(iv) Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism/MEM from
CICAD/OAS; (v) Nursing Networks
Period:
6
weeks, 7 hours/day – Monday to Saturday March
Place:
University
of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing
Numbers
of hours: 194
hours
To approach the conventional and contemporary
paradigms of quantitative and qualitative research
and its application to the study of the drug-related
phenomenon. In the course of the module activities,
the positivist approach, types of knowledge, science
and the scientific method, experimental and
non-experimental research: research problems and
hypotheses, discreet and inferential statistics will
be developed. In the qualitative approach, the bases
of social research, qualitative theories and methods
(historical and dialectic materialism, dialectic
hermeneutics, phenomenology, culture and the
ethnographic method, in addition to the historical
method), investigation techniques, classification,
data analysis and interpretation: principles and
techniques will be emphasized. Activities
contemplating the development of research practice
aiming at the project facilitation and the
application of technical research aspects will be
promoted. The ethical and legislative aspects
related to the investigation process will also be
studied. Module III will be divided into two units:
Unit
I:
1.
Types of knowledge, science and the
scientific method.
2.
Ethics in research.
3.
The structure of a research project and of a
scientific work.
4.
Analysis and interpretation of scientific
articles.
5.
Research problems and hypotheses.
6.
The context of knowledge – literature
review.
7.
Research outlining: experimental,
quasi-experimental and non-experimental research.
8.
Data mensuration and collection.
9.
Discreet and inferential statistics.
10.
Scientific writing.
Unit
II:
1.
Bases of social research: questions, object,
dimensions, classification and the methodological
setting of social research.
2.
Practical activity: definition of its field,
object e research problems.
3.
Qualitative methods and theories: historical
and dialectic materialism, dialectic hermeneutics,
phenomenology,
culture and the ethnographic method,
historical method.
4.
Investigation techniques: observation, focal
group, interview and questionnaire, documental
analysis.
5.
Data classification, analysis and
interpretation – principles and techniques.
Period:
05
weeks 7 hours/day, Monday to Saturday, April
8 to May 10, 2002
Participants:
15 faculty nurses from Latin America
Place:
University
of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing
Number
of hours:
238 hours
Part
II. Distance Learning Program
Module
IV
Research Projects Applied to the Drug-Related
Phenomenon
Module
IV corresponds to the operationalization of the
different educational programs and research projects
that were developed by the students during the
previous modules to be applied in their respective
countries for a period of six months. This module
will give support to the creation and implementation
of the National and International Virtual Network of
Nursing Research in relation to the Study on the
Drug-Related Phenomenon in Latin America. The
results of the educational program and research
projects will be presented in December 2002.
Place:
Countries
of the participating members
Period:
May 2003 – May 2004
Duration:
6 months
Number
of Hours:
184 hours
Module
V
I International Meeting on Nursing Research
Concerning the Study of the
Drug-Related
Phenomenon in Latin America
Module V consists in holding an international
meeting with the program coordinators, national and
international authorities and the students from the
training course. The purpose of the meeting is to
present the results of the educational and research
programs that were implemented in each country as
well as to make the general evaluation of the
program with recommendations for the continuity of
future training courses in the field. The developed
monographs will be published in the Proceedings of
the Event.
Place:
Ribeirão Preto/SP/Brazil
Period:
May
2004
Duration:
3 days (December 9, 10 and 11, 2002) – 24
hours
VI
Administrative Structure
Coordination/University
of Ribeirao Preto: Dr.
Margarita Antonia Villar Luis
Academic and Technical team: Faculty of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing
National
and international
Consultants.
CICAD/OAS Representatives.
Representatives
of Government of Japan Representatives.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s
Degree in Nursing Science
Languages:
Portuguese
and Spanish