Nursing care management in the context of the high performance volleyball player

Abstract

Objective: to understand the relationship between the central phenomenon “care management in the context of the high performance volleyball player: living and surviving in the multidimensionality of the sporting environment” and the categories which involved the perspective of management of health care of the athletes in the context of volleyball. Methods: it is a qualitative study, guided by the Theory Grounded in Data, made between February and September 2013, with 34 participants in three sample groups. Results: four categories were found, meaning care, health and disease concerning the high performance volleyball athlete; living and surviving on the limit between being a high performance athlete and a human being; waking up to the reality of high performance volleyball; unveiling possibilities and potentialities of health care in high performance volleyball. Conclusion: it is evident that there are concrete and tangible possibilities of insertion of the management of health care and nursing in the high performance volleyball.

Keywords

• Nursing
• Volleyball
• Health
• Athletes