Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing (Dec 2009)
From nursing research to care-taking education: a case study.
Abstract
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Introduction: </strong></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">A selection from the project named Promoting Healthy Life Styles and Habits at the UERJ College of Nursing,<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </strong>where the professors departed from the following question<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: </em><em><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">if we contribute to nurses’ education, whose essence is care-taking, can we teach them, while taking care and doing research? <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Objectives</strong></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">: To discuss care-taking learning-teaching process in the development of the project and analyze how students express the experience of developing research and learning care-taking at the same time.<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US"><strong>Methodology</strong></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">: Descriptive research of qualitative nature, whose subjects were six students. Data was collected in March 2009 through interviews. The theoretical basis was Paulo Freire’s concepts on education and educational process and Pedro Demo’s concepts on research. Data was submitted to content analysis. The following categories are found in the <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">results</strong>:<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">care-taking learning-teaching process, the influences of studying in the learning-teaching process and the experience of learning care-taking and researching through research. The <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">conclusion</strong> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">was that, it is by getting along together, interacting in the same space, researching, teaching and learning, that nursing students learned the care-taking concepts – they went through a transformation process and will certainly help transform other subjects</span><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: PT-BR; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">.</span></em></span></span></em></span></em></span></em></span></p><p class="PargrafodaLista" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt -27pt; line-height: 150%; mso-add-space: auto;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; line-height: 150%; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">care-</span></em></p>
