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Gisele Knop Aued1, Elizabeth Bernardino1, Otília Beatriz Maciel da Silva1
1Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.
Objective:
To identify the liaison nurse competences at hospital discharge in the light of Strengths-Based Nursing Care theoretical reference.
Method:
Descriptive and qualitative study, developed at the province of Quebéc-Canada, with 23 liaison nurses. The data were collected from March to July 2016, by a semi-structured questionnaire via Survey Monkey® electronic platform and analyzed through the content analysis, supported by software Qualitativa Data Analysis Miner.
Results:
The categories that has emerged were: competences related to patient care, competences related to personal characteristics of the liaison nurse and managerial competences.
Final Considerations:
Liaison nurses hold a set of competences from different dimensions, which provide the care centered in the person, in its potentialities, and assure the continuity of patient care with hospital discharge.
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