Political education in undergraduate Nursing courses: the student movement in defense of the SUS

El Movimiento Estudiantil en defensa del SUS

Abstract

The student movement is a space for political expression, health has left important marks in the construction and implementation of SUS. In nursing courses, these environments are materialized through participation in the Academic Centers and directories and provide the understanding of factors and problems of the social context that allows the students to know the reality. This study is an experience report, built through the mobilizations provided by the Wanda de Aguiar Horta Academic Center of the Nursing course of the Vale do Acaraú State University in Sobral, Ceará from 2017 to 2019, addressing the Student Movement SUS sustainability. It is perceived that the student movement represents a process of mobilization and resistance against the dismantling of SUS expressed through exposure and debate of opinions in the fight for the improvement of public health care. In nursing education, as a category with significant participation of the SUS employees, these movements aim at the creation of a more politicized and active academic community. Thus, in this reality of SUS discontinuity attempt, one can perceive the importance of rescuing the student protagonism in social struggles with the purpose of overcoming all this retrogressive reality.