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  • Article: [Care, self-care and caring for yourself: a paradigmatic understanding thought for nursing care].
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    ABSTRACT: This article presents a reflection about care, self-care and caring for oneself and establishes these issues' relations with the paradigms of totality and simultaneity. On the first part of the text, care and its general aspects are contextualized; the second part discusses about care in Martin Heidegger's philosophical perspective; the third part explores self-care on Dorothea Orem's conception; the fourth part considers Michel Foucault's care of oneself. And finally, the fifth part aims to establish the relationship between the concepts of self-care and care of oneself, and the totality and simultaneity paradigms. Self-care and care of oneself are connected to the objectivism of the totality, and to the subjectivism of the simultaneity. These subjects lead nursing to comprehend such paradigmatic inheritance and its implications on the nursing care.
    Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P 09/2009; 43(3):697-703. · 0.38 Impact Factor
  • Article: [Permanent education at work as a process of educating and caring the caregiver].
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    ABSTRACT: This paper is a theoretical reflection on the possibilities of Permanent Education at work as a means to care for the caregiver. Educational practices are used to value caregiver's creativity, participation, and autonomy, bearing in mind his/her uniqueness in diversity. It indicates the possibility of education as an act of care, by inter-relating these two actions, and setting up the Educating and Caring process that occurs in the work setting and includes attitudes and responsibilities. The experience of this encounter has an unique meaning for each person involved, and promotes both personal-physical, emotional, technical, scientific and ethical--and institutional transformations.
    Revista gaúcha de enfermagem / EENFUFRGS 10/2006; 27(3):344-50.
  • Article: Nurses and multicentric research on the drug henomenon in the americas: benefits and challenges
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    ABSTRACT: Este artigo descreve a experiência de uma pesquisa multicêntrica em enfermagem e saúde. Pontua os objetivos do Primeiro Programa Internacional para Enfermeiros no Estudo do Fenômeno das Drogas nas Américas, no qual onze enfermeiras de sete países da América Latina se encontraram com enfermeiras docentes do Canadá, para dar enfoque à pesquisa na área de redução da demanda de drogas. O artigo explora principalmente os benefícios e os desafios de planejar projetos de pesquisa num contexto fora do país de origem, para posteriormente desenvolver os mesmos em diversas e distantes localizações geográficas.
    Texto & Contexto Enfermagem. 01/2006;
  • Article: [Health promotion and quality of life among mothers of preadolescents: a focused ethnography study in Timbó/SC-Brazil].
    Vera Radünz, Joanne Olson
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    ABSTRACT: This is a focused ethnography study of 10 preadolescents' mothers who participate in OASE (Help Group of Evangelic Women) in Timbó, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The purpose of the study was to describe variances in patterns of health promotion, quality of life and preadolescents' risk behavior from the mothers' perspective, exploring how they influence their children and protect them in terms of risk behavior such as alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and violence. Semistructured interviews, participant observation, field notes, genograms and photography were used for data collection. Data were analyzed according to Bardin and the results were grouped in 4 categories: mothers see their function as a challenge; being healthy as a condition for quality of life; obstacles to achieve quality of life; health promotion practices to protect preadolescents from risks. The study showed mothers see themselves as participants in health promotion, which can guide health policy makers and encourage behavioral changes.
    Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 13 Spec No:1135-41. · 0.63 Impact Factor
  • Article: [Nursing care in pre-hospital services and airmedical removal].
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    ABSTRACT: The present article is a description of an experience developed during the Conclusive Monography of the Nursing Course from Santa Catarina's Federal University, in the second semester year 2000. It discusses the importance of the Pre-hospital Attendiment Service and Airmedical Removal, and the need of nurses preparation to attend the increasing requests of those services. It presents a historical review on these kind of attention method in health, in Brazil and in the world. It discusses some aspects related to management of human and material resources, concerning its specificity in those kind of services. It also points out the importance of the Nurse roll, and the necessity of widening their skills to act in the field of pre-hospital attendiment and airmedical removal.
    Revista brasileira de enfermagem 56(6):695-8.
  • Article: [Hospitality as an expression of nursing care].
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    ABSTRACT: Qualitative research whose purpose was to reflect and argue about the relationship between hospitality, care and nursing according to experiences of PhD students. The research was developed from theoretic and practical meeting carried through by disciplines "the care in Nursing and Health" of PhD nursing Program at Santa Catarina Federal University. Its chosen theoretical frame of Hospitality perspective while nursing care. Data were collected applying a semi-structured questionnaire at ten doctoral students. The analysis of the data was carried through under the perspective of the content analysis according to Bardin. Hospitality it is imperative for the individuals adaptation in the hospital context or any area where it is looking for health care.
    Revista brasileira de enfermagem 63(2):203-8.