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The teaching and practices of caring in the nursing: el caso de un curso de pregrado en enfermeria

This research has been motivated by the author's own experiences and concens she had during her professional schooling and practice. The aim of this study is to analyse the educational forming process of the nurse. When it comes to the teaching of caring/cared in the nursing course. The emphasis is on the dynamic procedures of the nurse according to the faculty of the Adult Health Field, students and ex-students of the course. Based on previous Knowledge, through the empirical material, the meanings of the teaching and learning of caring/cared have been described and analysed in the search of a reflexion about the educational process of those professionals. The qualitative approach and the study case method have been used and data have been collective from semi-structured interviews. To analyses the material, the strategy of the collective subject discourse has been applied. The analyses of those discourses made it possible to create themes, among which, the one focused on this sudy: caring/cared taken as the scientific object in the nursing practice and its construction for the social practice.

Teaching; Education; Nursing care


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