The aim of this study was to analyse the teaching of competencies for health promotion in Nursing Education and to identify experimentations and experiences in this process. It was a qualitative whose data were collected in focus groups with teachers and students from 11 undergraduate nursing courses in Brazil. The results showed that health promotion competencies are temporally taught in the contact and interaction with reality through experimentations and experiences. Experimentation is an event determined by a specific place and time in the course, while experiences are related to a meaningful discovery and an opening to the unknown. The challenge to the teaching of competencies for health promotion is that it should overcome the logic of experimentation, which is structured on technical rationality, and favour a perspective that allows and values experiences in Nursing education.

The aim of this study was to analyse the teaching of competencies for health promotion in Nursing Education and to identify experimentations and experiences in this process. It was a qualitative whose data were collected in focus groups with teachers and students from 11 undergraduate nursing courses in Brazil. The results showed that health promotion competencies are temporally taught in the contact and interaction with reality through experimentations and experiences. Experimentation is an event determined by a specific place and time in the course, while experiences are related to a meaningful discovery and an opening to the unknown. The challenge to the teaching of competencies for health promotion is that it should overcome the logic of experimentation, which is structured on technical rationality, and favour a perspective that allows and values experiences in Nursing education.

El objetivo de la investigación fue analizar la enseñanza de las competencias para la promoción de la salud en la formación del enfermero, identificando las experimentaciones y experiencias en este proceso. Se trata de un estudio cualitativo cuyos datos se obtuvieron de grupos focales con profesores y estudiantes de 11 cursos de graduación en Enfermería en Brasil. Las competencias para la promoción de la salud se enseñan temporalmente en el contacto y en la convivencia con la realidad por medio de experimentaciones y experiencias. La experimentación es un acontecimiento determinado por un local y un tiempo específico en la formación. Por otro lado, las experiencias se relacionan con un descubrimiento señalado y con la apertura a lo desconocido. Hay desafíos para la enseñanza de las competencias para la promoción de la salud, superando la lógica de la experimentación estructurada en la racionalidad técnica para una perspectiva que permita y valorice las experiencias en la formación del enfermero.

The aim of this study was to analyse the teaching of competencies for health promotion in Nursing Education and to identify experimentations and experiences in this process. It was a qualitative whose data were collected in focus groups with teachers and students from 11 undergraduate nursing courses in Brazil. The results showed that health promotion competencies are temporally taught in the contact and interaction with reality through experimentations and experiences. Experimentation is an event determined by a specific place and time in the course, while experiences are related to a meaningful discovery and an opening to the unknown. The challenge to the teaching of competencies for health promotion is that it should overcome the logic of experimentation, which is structured on technical rationality, and favour a perspective that allows and values experiences in Nursing education.

The aim of this study was to analyse the teaching of competencies for health promotion in Nursing Education and to identify experimentations and experiences in this process. It was a qualitative whose data were collected in focus groups with teachers and students from 11 undergraduate nursing courses in Brazil. The results showed that health promotion competencies are temporally taught in the contact and interaction with reality through experimentations and experiences. Experimentation is an event determined by a specific place and time in the course, while experiences are related to a meaningful discovery and an opening to the unknown. The challenge to the teaching of competencies for health promotion is that it should overcome the logic of experimentation, which is structured on technical rationality, and favour a perspective that allows and values experiences in Nursing education.

El objetivo de la investigación fue analizar la enseñanza de las competencias para la promoción de la salud en la formación del enfermero, identificando las experimentaciones y experiencias en este proceso. Se trata de un estudio cualitativo cuyos datos se obtuvieron de grupos focales con profesores y estudiantes de 11 cursos de graduación en Enfermería en Brasil. Las competencias para la promoción de la salud se enseñan temporalmente en el contacto y en la convivencia con la realidad por medio de experimentaciones y experiencias. La experimentación es un acontecimiento determinado por un local y un tiempo específico en la formación. Por otro lado, las experiencias se relacionan con un descubrimiento señalado y con la apertura a lo desconocido. Hay desafíos para la enseñanza de las competencias para la promoción de la salud, superando la lógica de la experimentación estructurada en la racionalidad técnica para una perspectiva que permita y valorice las experiencias en la formación del enfermero.