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Cecília Maria Brondani1, Margrid Beuter
1Enfermeira do Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. ceciliabrondani@hotmail.com
Abstract:
This study aimed at describing and analyzing family carers' experiences in taking care of chronic patients at home. It is a qualitative research, developed in Service of Home Health Care of Santa Maria's University Hospital (SIDHUSM), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to which 15 family carers contributed. In order to produce data, one made use of Creative-Sensitive Method as well as the dynamics of creativity and sensitivity: Life Line, Body-Knowledge and Almanac. Data were analyzed according to the conceptual premises of discourse analysis. Thus, there were developed the following themes: the care as an inherent experience to human beings; the experience of taking care in a disease situation; the learning with the experience of being a carer. The results pointed to the necessity of valuing the care activities developed by home carers at patients' home, and they also highlighted the home care as a modality of humanizing and innovating attention which aims to invert health professionals' logic of action.
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