[Styles of nurses' caring in Intensive Therapy mediated by technology].

The objective was to identify the social representations of the intensive therapy nurses about the care practices in face of the technology. Participant observation and interviews were conducted with twenty one nurses of an intensive therapy center, at a Rio de Janeiro public hospital. Lexical analysis was applied, using the Alceste 2010. The results were organized in two categories, each of them with three lexical classes. The first brought the meaning of the technology in intensive therapy and the organization of the styles of caring; the second showed the client's condition and its impact on nurses' care practices. It was concluded that the technology organizes the nurses' styles of caring, that are built on client assistance in the work context. These lead nurses to assign meaning to their practices driving them to the elaboration of ways of acting in face of the technologies.
PMID: 24861069 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem - April 1, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Silva RC, Ferreira Mde A, Apostolidis T Tags: Rev Bras Enferm Source Type: research