RESILIENCE, ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS IN THE HEALTHAREA

Nursing and healthcare students can acquire the ability to successfully deal with adversity and the interaction between them results in learning networks. The objective of this research is to analyze the differences between the measures of centrality, based on the analysis of social networks, engagement and resilience of students in the years of the course. Quantitative and descriptive research enabled the analysis of support and friendship networks and the degree of resilience and engagement of students, in addition to identifying the way students exchange academic and friendship information. It was found that there is no difference in the measures of engagement and resilience of students from different years of the nursing course, except for the absorption dimension and that there is a relationship between student interaction with engagement and resilience in the first years of the nursing course. nursing. The results can be applied to educational strategies and in the work environment of health professionals.