[The nursing process. Perspectives of teachers and alumnae]

A qualitative investigation has been carried out whose objective has been to explore the real impact of the Nursing Care Attention Process in an educational setting by means of compiling the opinions/perspectives from professors and students. The type of qualitative study used is the case study. To this end, a nursing school having experience in the teaching of Nursing Care Attention Process and having a minimal integration of this topic in its curriculum was selected. The selection of the sample professors and students took place according to pre-established criteria. The sample total included 8 professors and 7 students. Data were collected by means of structurally flexible interviews and with an itemized study of the documents of the center. The content analysis of the data gathered shows that the Nursing Care Attention Process is considered to be an adequate instrument in nursing education but one which requires from the students an early development in a series of knowledge, abilities and capacities so as to be able to use it in practice. Bearing in mind the importance of the teaching setting for the appropriate use of this method, this project concludes with a series of recommendations which should be carefully weighed when designing a curriculum. This article summarizes the author's master' thesis at the University of Manchester.