Creative Education, 2018, 9, 497-512 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce ISSN Online: 2151-4771 ISSN Print: 2151-4755 DOI: 10.4236/ce.2018.93035 Mar. 29, 2018 497 Creative Education Nursing and Biochemistry: An Evaluation Strategy Using a Basic Discipline to Present to Freshman Students Their Future Professional Environment Maria Lúcia Magalhães Palma 1* , Ana Caroline Santana 1* , Gustavo Henrique Varela Saturnino Alves 2 , Thays Merçon 2 , Helena Carla Castro 1,2 1 Post-Graduation Program in Science and Biotechnology (PPBI), Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil 2 Post-Graduation Program in Teaching in Biosciences and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Abstract Nursing is a career that involves more than taking care of sick patients, espe- cially when working in health institutions (e.g. Clinics and Hospitals). Ac- cording to the current curriculum guidelines for nurse graduation, it is neces- sary for this professional to develop different skills to work in several health care environments, including decision-making, communication, leadership, among others. Therefore, our objective was to plan a strategy to approximate Nursing freshmen students to their professional environment already in the very beginning of their graduate course. On that purpose we planned an eval- uation strategy for the discipline Biochemistry using an active methodology to simulate a professional experience. Initially the students were divided into pairs, and had to analyze two different professional situations, both using Bi- ochemical concepts. According to our results, as the evaluation strategy was applied, the students showed surprise and curiosity. The analysis of the ques- tionnaire about the strategy revealed that most of the participants enjoyed the activity using positive words. Thus the strategy showed a good acceptance and presented the desired characteristic of correlating Biochemistry, a basic dis- cipline, with the nurse professional skills. This strategy may allow they be- come more aware of their responsibilities sooner, as it allows using earlier their competence of seeking solutions to solve situations regarding the profes- sional practices using biochemical basic concepts. This experience may im- prove them to a future better attendance of their patients. *Both contributed equally to this work. How to cite this paper: Palma, M. L. M., Santana, A. C., Alves, G. H. V. S., Merçon, T., & Castro, H. C. (2018). Nursing and Biochemistry: An Evaluation Strategy Us- ing a Basic Discipline to Present to Fresh- man Students Their Future Professional Environment. Creative Education, 9, 497-512. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2018.93035 Received: September 25, 2017 Accepted: March 26, 2018 Published: March 29, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access