Abstract
The study aimed to get to know the changes taking place in the work process resulting from permanent health education. It was a qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory research project. The interviewees were nurses working in health services at five basic health units and five hospitals in ten cities of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, between 2011 and 2012. The results indicated that the research subjects’ knowledge on continuing education was limited and, in general, they were unaware of how educational activities are evaluated. It is concluded that education at work, in the researched segment, was carried out in a compartmentalized, timely, and unsystematic manner, and that the evaluation of educational activities did not contribute to improving the educational process.
Keywords
nursing; continuing education in health; evaluation; work process