Ra Ximhai (Jul 2015)
PHENOMENOLOGY, IT’S USE IN NURSING SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION: BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY 2010-2014
Abstract
Phenomenology emerges as a philosophy with Husserl; It´s the study of phenomena, it provides access to human consciousness in nursing, to understand the meaning of being human. The bibliometric analysis is useful to describe and evaluate scientific products reported in scientific journals. The objective is to analyze the use of phenomenology in nursing production with bibliometric indicators. Materials and methods. Retrospective descriptive bibliometric study. Articles published in indexed journals in databases Scielo and CUIDEN Foundation Index. Descriptors: "Fenomenología" "Enfermería" (Spanish), “Fenomenología” “Enfermagem” (Portuguese), "Phenomenology" "Nursing" (English), lapse 2010-2014, search performed in February 2015. Results and Discussion. Sample (n = 142). Journals with more publications: Revista Paraninfo Digital (9.2%), Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde, Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem and Texto & Contexto Enfermagem (7%). Knowledge Area: Adult Nursing (18.3%); Topics: Teaching in nursing (14.7%), Cancer and Discipline of Nursing (9.8%), Care (7.7%); Population: Nurses (25%). Country: Brazil (69.2%); Keywords: Nursing (11.73%), Qualitative Research (6.9%); Language: Portuguese (50%); Original articles (88%); Phenomenological approach: Social Alfred Schütz (33.5%); Sampling: Intentional (64.62%); Technique used: Interview (42.9%). The phenomenology is a method and a philosophy, seeks the truth of phenomena in the deep variety of reality identifying Brazil development in the use of phenomenology. The social approaches are used as superior form of intersubjectivity (subject-phenomenon-society), referring to Alfred Schütz. Conclusions. The use of bibliometrics is an assessment of scientific activity, it is an instrument to approach to use given in nursing to phenomenology as philosophy and method.
