The meaning of nursing care for the lecturer nurse

Abstract

Background: nursing care is a singular and multidimensional concept, being a central condition for understanding the human being, a central object of study for nursing students. Objective: this study aims to understand the meaning of nursing care for teaching nurses. Methodology: it is a qualitative study following the principles of phenomenology using semistructured interviews. We questioned 10 nurses to perform teaching functions. Results: the results give the nursing care meanings offered by the nurses of competencies that circulate around the different knowledges: knowing, knowing how to be and knowing how to do, among which acquire greater meaning are the knowledge and know how to make logical sequence seen as inseparable. Conclusion: training works around a set of knowledge to build the profile of future nurses, mobilizing, integrating and transferring all of them, with the purpose of promoting humanized care and well-being in which autonomy is the ultimate goal of reach.