Bioética e enfermagem
: pontes e barreiras entre a imagem do bom enfermeiro e a enfermagem como prática profissional

  • Cátia Isabel Marranita dos Santos (Student)

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

Marranita CI. Bioética e Enfermagem: pontes e barreiras entre a imagem do bom enfermeiro e a Enfermagem como prática profissional. [Bioethics and nursing: bridges and barriers between the image of the good nurse and nursing as professional practice. ] Lisbon, Portugal; 2012. [master's thesis – Catholic University of Portugal (UCP)]. This is a qualitative study, with the objective of identifying, in the perspective of trainers of future nursing professional, bridges and barriers between what it means to be a good nurse and nursing while professional practice. The research subjects were16 nurses, full-time teachers at UCP of Lisbon. At first, teachers were asked to choose from among a roster of pre-selected photographs that better express what it is like to be a nurse, justifying his choice then asked them to describe as a good nurse. The results indicate that faculty members characterize the good Nurse like that which has jurisdiction to all levels; do not neglect the training/continuous updating of their knowledge; look for the excellence in the practice of the profession; protects and defends the human person of practices that contradict the law ethics or the common good; assumes the duty to meet the needs of the population and the community in which it is inserted; collaborates with other professionals in programs that meet the needs the patient/family/community; respects the biopsychosocial, cultural and spiritual integrity of the person; maintains a standard of personal conduct that respects the profession; lying subtended approaches of bioethics: principlism, virtues and ethical care. Determined as factors facilitators of good practice the centralization of care in the wearer; the participatory assessment of patient needs; the professional competence; horizontal care; closeness therapy; job satisfaction; professional autonomy; and updating of knowledge; being that the centralization of care in technical; the external determination of the patient's needs; the professional incompetence; the vertical care; the therapeutic distance; professional dissatisfaction, tying/subservience; and the stagnation of knowledge, act as barriers to good nursing practice.
Date of Award25 Jul 2014
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa
SupervisorElma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zóboli (Supervisor) & Margarida Vieira (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Bioethics
  • Bioethical themes
  • Nursing ethics
  • Good nurse
  • Ethics

Designation

  • Mestrado em Enfermagem

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