The re-humanization of the executive nurse's job: a focus on the spiritual dimension.

Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes,Clarice Aparecida Ferraz,Maria Auxiliadora Trevizan,Neide Fávero

doi:10.1590/s0104-11692002000300014

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Abstract

This work synthesizes the authors' views on the damages to the development of human capital in health services, which are caused by the disregard to the human spiritual dimension. New administration paradigms related to the development of spirituality are pointed out. Considering that the spiritual dimension has a systemic nature and that, by means of ethics and esthetics, it harmonizes all of man's dimensions in his relationships with others, the authors aim at approaching the spiritual value as fundamental for the re-humanization of the managing nurse's job. They recommend the integration of the spiritual dimension to the daily work of such professional as a determinant factor for a new performance as well as an inductor for nurses' better personal and professional life quality.

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This work synthesizes the authors’ views on the damages to the development of human capital in health services, which are caused by the disregard to the human spiritual dimension
With regard to the human zenith and decadence, it is argued that the modern man, supported by scientific and analytical rigor, has transformed the essence of future[1]
Modern man is so involved with his “gears”, which have become more and more complex, that, in order to regulate them, he needs to resort to other more and more complicated mechanisms and resources

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This work synthesizes the authors’ views on the damages to the development of human capital in health services, which are caused by the disregard to the human spiritual dimension. From what has been presented, it can be inferred that administration theories that analyze the dynamics and functioning of organizations, behavioral models preconized by different administration schools and, above all, the values founding management and leadership in health services are becoming obsolete if we consider that, in addition to the physical, mental and psychosocial dimensions, human beings integrates in themselves the spiritual dimension.

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