Impact of the implementation of pharmacological pedagogical monitoring in undergraduate nursing

Abstract

Objective: To report the experience of implementing pedagogical monitoring in the Pharmacology discipline of the Nursing undergraduate course at a public university. Methods: Descriptive study with quantitative analysis on the performance of students in Pharmacology of the Nursing course in Macaé at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, before and after the implementation of monitoring. Monitoring was offered for nine weeks with targeted studies. Statistical analyzes were performed using analysis of variance (One Way – ANOVA), with differences between groups considered statistically significant when p < 0.05. Results: There was a significant reduction in the number of failures in the subject comparing the two years before and two years after the implementation of monitoring, from 37.9 ± 7.5% to 6.4 ± 5.3% of students (p<0.05), respectively. These indices were reached as an increase in student attendance in monitoring was observed. Regarding the group of students with the highest average in the subject (grades 7.0 to 10.0) there was a significant increase from 9.9 ± 3.2% to 40.9 ± 10.7% (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The implementation of pedagogical monitoring of Pharmacology in the Nursing course was effective in reducing the failure rate of the discipline; in addition to allowing solidification of the knowledge acquired by student-monitors.