Abstract
Objectives: This article intends to present some of the results obtained during the research on the Promotion and Preservation of Dignity in the context of care in nursing homes, carried out in the context of the PhD in Nursing of the University of Lisbon. Methodology: Within the interpretative paradigm, Grounded Theory (GT) was adopted as methodology. Data were collected through participant observation and interviews at an Nursing Home (IPSS) with about 350 residents distributed through three residential structures in the county of Castelo Branco for 21 months, with residents, nurses and direct acting helpers as participants. The constant comparative analysis of the data occurred simultaneously, using the software NVivo 10® and NVivo 11®. From the data analysis it was possible to construct a middle-range theory - Promotion and Preservation of Dignity in Nursing Homes: Self Conservation. Results: A complex, unforeseen phenomenon, exposed to variability and multiple, constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed in the daily rhythms, in a continuous, systematic and dynamic manner. It follows a two-dimensional route that was called the Self Conservation Trajectory. On the one hand a personal, individual, although accompanied and promoted. On the other hand a profoundly social path. Is the first dimension of this route that will be presented in this article. Descriptors: Dignity; self; nursing homes; nursing; grounded theory.
Highlights
This article intends to present some of the results obtained during the research
Data were collected through participant observation and interviews at an Nursing Home
with about 350 residents distributed through three residential structures in the county
Summary
Outros admitiram que a sua família foi quem tomou a decisão de admissão ao lar mas mesmo em situações de conflito familiar, o lar é visto como a última opção: “Mas o que é que eu hei-de fazer, não tenho filhos, fui viver para um quarto na casa da minha afilhada e olhe ficou-me com tudo, ia buscar-me a reforma... Entrada no lar: Uma despedida e um começo Apesar de não figurar como fase nem etapa da trajetória, tem que ser referida por si só, tal o simbolismo que apresenta.
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