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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
[Considering human peculiarities in attention to health care through dialogue and assistance]
Adriana Dall'Asta Pereira1, Hilda Maria Barbosa de Freitas, Carla Lizandra de Lima Ferreira
1Centro Universitário Franciscano (UNIFRA), Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Empreendedorismo Social da Enfermagem e Saúde (GEPESES), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Abstract:
The aim of this qualitative exploratory research is to understand how health workers relate to the main object of their work--the user--both subject and author of his/her life history. Eleven nursing practitioners from a Basic Health Unit participated in a semi-structured instrument, in March and April, 2008. The speeches revealed two converging themes: (1) Consideration of human peculiarities in attention to health care; and (2) dialogue and assistance as interactive possibilities. We found that the attention to health care is broadening the debates over valuing human peculiarities through dialogue and assistance as interactive possibilities.
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