HUMANIZATION OF CARE PRACTICE: A REFERENCE MARK FOR NURSING IN CRITICAL UNITS

Abstract

This study aims to build a reference mark for human care regarding transformation of practice based on a reflective process among nurses in Critical Units in a teaching hospital. It has been developed over eight meetings for discussion of themes as: values, motivation, care, nursing, human-being and environment, founded on care factors by Watson (1979, 1985). The objective achievement has been subsidized by the main question: What concepts can be used in the production of a reference mark for nursing Care in Critical Units to be incorporated and used by nurses? The speeches have been analysed according to Bardin (1991) and revealed four themes: care as subjective transaction of human experience; nursing in its cientific and holistic dimensions; the human being in its individuality and interpersonal relations in the practice context; influences and conditions determined by the environment in care providing. Such themes have served as base for the elaboration of the reference mark, which has allowed for: review of practice not having as its only concern the fulfillment of the mechanical act of techniche, provision of alternatives to fight lack of motivation and action by professionals, valorization and human improvement through recognition of the Nursing Science towards providing care; development of researchs to bring theorical philosophical fundamentation to Nursing practice. Finally, the study demonstrates that the humanization of care practice is a need that matchs nurses´s expectations in Critical Units as well as encourages future researches for the application of proposed reference mark.

Keywords

• Nursing
• Critical care units
• Hospials teaching
• Nursing care