Social representations of systematization of nursing care in the perspective of nurses who take care of children

ABSTRACT

Objective

To know the Social Representations of nurses who care for hospitalized children about the SNC.

Method

Qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study based on the Theory of Social Representations, carried out in May 2015, with 45 nurses attending children from school hospitals in a city of Mato Grosso. The data has been collected through an interview and analyzed using Alceste software.

Results

Two thematic axes have been found, the first one refers to the dimension of the knowledge, locating the time and space of the SNC concept formation. The second points out the dimension of the practice, describing the dynamics of care in clinics and the daily difficulties.

Conclusion

The representations of the knowledge dimension do not seem sufficient to anchor the practice of care, pointing out the existence of important discrepancies between the representations, that is, between the valuation of knowledge and the quality of the daily practice.

Nursing; Nursing process; Child care