Experience of nursing students as monitors in the discipline of semiology and semiotechnics

Abstract

This article sought to describe the experiences lived in the academic monitoring program in the discipline of semiology and semiotechnology, with the students of the fourth period, of the morning shift in the Bachelor of Nursing course at Centro Universitário de Manaus, using the hypothetical-deductive method, together with the type of descriptive research, it is an experience report, experienced by two nursing students in the semiotics and semiotics discipline offered by a private university located in the capital of the state of Amazonas. In the first moment, the theoretical classes were mainly aimed at assisting the teacher in the classroom, developing various activities as an aid in the application and correction of tests. However, in the second moment, the practical classes were mainly directed to the realization of laboratory practices such as aspiration of the airways, enteral, gastric probing techniques, application of drugs in the deltoid, vastus lateralis, buttocks. Thus, the monitoring was configured as an important activity performed by the monitor, as it enabled a new opportunity in academic life, both because of the possibility of reviewing the contents taught in class and also to acquire new knowledge.