Teaching-welfare integration: a case study

Abstract

The teaching-welfare integration process (TWI) between the "Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul" and the "Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre" is this work's object of study focusing the actors in it and its concrete historical practice. The intention is that of knowing the dynamics of the process relationships, understanding it is a collective work as the result of historical and social changings. The inter-institutional dychotomy becomes evident as a rule, unleashing an integration issue. The existing TWI is not a concordant one but its integrating power connections must be used as a motive for its action and transformation, defining the making and re/making of new alternatives.