Abstract
to verify nurses' perceptions about comprehensive care to human beings from the ecosystem perspective, with Therapeutic Touch use. an exploratory-descriptive, qualitative study, conducted with 11 nurses who use/used Therapeutic Touch in daily work. Data were collected through online semi-structured interviews and submitted to discursive textual analysis. The ecosystem framework was used. participants talked about the theme in a polysemic way, but understand that comprehensive care is associated with nursing professionals and intrinsic in their being and doing, considering the philosophical theoretical bases of nursing, which aim at the comprehensiveness of being. Therapeutic Touch was considered as a way to achieve comprehensive care caring to human being ins. The objective of the study was achieved; however, it is understood the need for other research to advance this knowledge and enable innovations in professional practice of nurses.
Highlights
Discussions about care in nursing are a continuous practice, as this is the main focus of nursing
This context allows us to think about comprehensive care, understood as a practice that meets the various dimensions of human beings, considered a complex phenomenon that aims to promote it as a singular and multidimensional being, not happening only through the action of a subject, but through a care network that must go beyond the visible needs[1,2]
Nursing needs to be sensitized to a new practice based on theoretical philosophical references that support the understanding of human beings in their multidimensionality and on new therapeutic bases that refer to comprehensive care[3]
Summary
Discussions about care in nursing are a continuous practice, as this is the main focus of nursing. It is observed that there is a need to direct these reflections to an enlarged view, understanding what is recommended by the Unified Health System (SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde) in its guidelines and public policies as well as the complexity of human beings This context allows us to think about comprehensive care, understood as a practice that meets the various dimensions of human beings, considered a complex phenomenon that aims to promote it as a singular and multidimensional being, not happening only through the action of a subject, but through a care network that must go beyond the visible needs[1,2]. Home, place that human beings live and develop, constituted by the totality of elements that are part of that space, whether they are biotic (social) and abiotic (physical) elements, which interact and carry out exchanges among themselves[4]
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