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Training nurses in auriculotherapy/auricular acupuncture: possible paths for Portugal
Daiana Cristina Wickert1, Diéssica Roggia Piexak2, Daniela Dallegrave3
1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.
Objective:
To report on the experience of developing training in auriculotherapy/auricular acupuncture for nurses in Portugal.
Method:
Descriptive experience report, using the methodological framework proposed by Donabedian and informed and dialogued descriptive analysis. The training carried out is part of a thesis.
Results:
The experience took place from January to February 2025, during academic mobility at the Coimbra School of Nursing. This is a collective training course, developed with 19 nurses working in Portugal and with no previous training in auriculotherapy, who were intentionally invited. The course was adapted following the proposed guidelines for training nurses in auriculotherapy/auricular acupuncture, with educational objectives based on Bloom's Taxonomy. The course consisted of 75 hours of online theory. The practical workload was tested, varying from five to 20 hours.
Conclusion:
The experience is unprecedented and innovative and may support the regulation of training in auriculotherapy/auricular acupuncture as an intervention by nurses, based on the Brazilian model.
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