ABSTRACT
This paper emerged from a group experience about a theme related to human care: the contact. The experience is described, unveiling feelings and memories perceived while constructing the activity, building a concept of contact, here seen as one of the fundaments of human care. Human care was studied on an anthropological approach, lived in a group technique. Our meanings of contact were expressed with the words: senses, sensibility, representation, confidence, relationship. Each significance was worked and detailed since our concept of contact arose from the interrelation of them. Some theoretical reflection about the theme was done and constructs of this kind of care were elaborated, since it is considered one of the fundaments of human care.
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Empathy , Interpersonal Relations , Nursing Care , Emotions , Group Processes , Humans , Nursing Care/psychology , TouchABSTRACT
This paper is based on a qualitative research, with an approach based on phenomenological hermeneutics. Its aim is to understand the singularities of nursing therapeutic and propedeutic care actions and their interfaces with the actions of other professionals. The participants are five nurses from the Trauma Intensive Care Unit of an university hospital. The data has been collected through semi-structured interviews and has been analyzed according to Ricoeur's hermeneutics. The understanding of what has been shown by the participants, concerning the meaning of care actions, presented five distinct categories: organization of the caring environment; expressiveness of being; development of educative actions; systematization of care and interfaces of care.
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Interprofessional Relations , Nursing Care , Health Care Surveys , HumansABSTRACT
The paper describes the author's experience on guiding "health workshops" as a way to sensitize nurses that take care of HIV-positive and AIDS patients through the development of humanized attention to their customers, according to Jean Watson's Trans-personal Care Theory. To do so, as a starting point we used the professionals reasoning throughout their career to highlight the importance of this approach.
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Education, Nursing, Continuing/organization & administration , HIV Infections/nursing , HIV Infections/psychology , Inservice Training/organization & administration , Nurse-Patient Relations , Nursing Staff/education , Nursing Staff/psychology , Patient-Centered Care , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humanism , Humans , Nursing TheoryABSTRACT
Nursing, in a clinical assistential model, and the daily practices in an in-patient psychiatric unit, are approached. It seems to have a discordance between the health system and clients problems. The nurses seem to plan actions that accomplish institutional goals instead of reaching out for clients' individual needs. In mental health, to include the client on planning his care is fundamental to reach therapeutical goals. Even in the actual model, there are initiatives incorporating these approaches, rescuing concepts that bring clients and workers closer. By recognizing the subjectivity of professionals and clients, we can understand that they are both singular, bringing up interdisciplinarity, and also a process of hierarchy happens, giving autonomy to the working teams and enlarging the space of work.
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Clinical Competence/standards , Helping Behavior , Models, Nursing , Needs Assessment/organization & administration , Patient Care Planning/organization & administration , Patient-Centered Care/methods , Psychiatric Nursing/methods , Diffusion of Innovation , Goals , Guideline Adherence , Humans , Nurse-Patient Relations , Nursing Evaluation Research , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Patient Participation , Professional AutonomyABSTRACT
In this article the authors establish a connection between health care models and pedagogical trends considering their education and health care experiences in the hospital and in the communities and also the review of the literature. The pedagogical trends and health care models used by nurses in nursing education demonstrate their world view. Therefore it is important that they understand what is behind their practice so that nursing is in a political and historical context and its practice can foster the social transformation or keep the status quo. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the construction of nursing education.
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Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , Education, Nursing/organization & administration , Models, Educational , Models, Nursing , Training Support/organization & administration , Attitude of Health Personnel , Humans , Nurses/psychology , Nursing Education Research , PoliticsABSTRACT
This article reports the integration experience between registered nurses and nurse educators in a teaching hospital. The study is a research with focus on the care significance to adult clients in a outpatient unit.
