[Paradigmatic changes in care caused by the experiences of pediatric nurses]

The aim of this study is revealing the work process development of nurses which works in the child care area and to understand how paradigmatical transformations of model and care occur from the daily experience. The participants were ten (10) nurses, all of them, females of long experience in the area of child care. This investigation follows the four steps indicated by Giorgi (1985) and Comiotto (1992). The results showed four phenomenological essences: building one's self; the discovery of the child care significance; the nurse as educator; the perception of the constant series of transformations. Starting from the essences, the phenomenological dimensions appear in number of fourteen (14). This work provided profound reflections about the relationship of the process and the act of care.