This is a blog from a researcher and nurse who feels the need to share knowledge, practice and experience in maternal and child health, with relevant topics in promotion and prevention health and cultural health.
Participation in the ICCH 2010 -Poster Presentation:
"Discovering roads - the relationship between nurse and family in rural communities"
Authors
Chavez Alvarez RE, Angelo M, Hoga LAK. University of Sao Paulo, School of Nursing - Brazil.
Abstract
This research presents the experience lived by one of the authors as a nurse in rural communities in Peru. The aim was to describe and identify the meaning and sense found in daily life interactions between families and nurse into rural communities. The Interpretative Interacionism was the theoretical and methodological framework of this study. The experiences related to meanings and senses attributed to the daily interaction with families in rural communities were analyzed. “Discovering roads” was the main component of the experience. The valorization of the relationship between nurse and family, in a comprehensive and humanized way, characterized by mutual care, was the fundamental element utilized to carry out the basic nursing care actions in the communities. The following steps were carried out: Inserting in their world; Knowing their reality, Perceiving their vulnerability; Understanding their preoccupations; Perceiving their modes of action; Sharing their activities. In the description of the meanings attributed to experience, contextual aspects, actions and intentions of the nurse and the feelings emerged during the realization of activities with the families were explored. This work with families permitted us to understand the significance of the experience, rescuing the importance of nurse-family relationships through the use of adequate communication, observation and interaction, as well as, the utilization of strategies to achieve walking toward cultural maturity and mutual care, in order to solve the crucial problems and needs that emerges from the interaction between nurse and family in rural communities.
Key words: Professional-family relationships. Family nursing. Community health nursing. Caring in community nursing.
