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Impersonal Care or Humanized Care:a Decision Made by Nurses? Hourglass Model
Oscar Alberto Beltrán Salazar1
1Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, oscar.beltran@udea.edu.co.
Objectives:
Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia.
Methods:
This was a phenomenological interpretive study with 16 adult participants between 29 and 62 years of age, selected through purposeful sampling. The study was based on in-depth interviews to construct the information and on the procedures proposed by Munhal for the analysis.
Results:
This work revealed a complex relation, understood as vicariant, between humanized care and impersonal care that influence upon independent aspects of the social and legal system, health institutions, and nurses. The themes comprising the experience of humanized care are described in the "hourglass" model.
Conclusions:
Humanized care can displace impersonal care or vice versa, according to the orientation of nurses in the care practice and some elements from the institutional context.
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