Information and Communication Technologies in Health Education. The Case of Nursing Training

The information and communication technologies assume nowadays an increasing implementation in all areas of the society, finding its own space in the teaching-learning process, in general, and in the case of nursing formation, particularly. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the concepts of the nursing teachers, in relation to the information and communication technologies and their use in this formation area, the situations in which they use them, their ways, the potentialities and limitations they identify in this process, which resources they mobilize in its consolidation and expansion. As a research strategy we made an option by one study of exploratory and transversal type, using a qualitative methodology in an interpretative paradigm, selecting as instruments of data collection the half-structured interview, nuclear technique, and the documental analysis, complementary technique, being the subject group in study composed by sixteen teachers of one Nursing High School. We have verified that there is a positive general attitude towards the use of these technologies, being identified many potentialities for their use in nursing training, especially when it comes to the access of information and in the communication process. At the same time we have verified some daily difficulties, especially due to lack of material resources and some less formation of the teachers, in this area.