Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ()

Integrality of care: challenges for the nurse practice

  • Solange Meira de Sousa,
  • Elizabeth Bernardino,
  • Karla Crozeta,
  • Aida Maris Peres,
  • Maria Ribeiro Lacerda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0380
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 70, no. 3
pp. 504 – 510

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the role of the nurse in the collegiate management model of a teaching hospital, in the integrality of care perspective. Method: a single case study with multiple units of analysis, with the theoretical proposition "integrality of care is a result of the care offered to the user by multiple professionals, including the nurse". Data were obtained in a functional unit of a teaching hospital through interviews with 13 nurses in a non-participant observation and document analysis. Results: from the analytical categories emerged subcategories that allowed understanding that the nurse promotes integrality of care through nursing management, team work and integration of services. Final considerations: the theoretical proposition was confirmed and it was verified that the nursing management focus on attending to health care needs and is a strategy to provide integrality of care.

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