Take care of yourself, take care of the other - program of improvement of clinical reasoning / Cuidar de si, cuidar do outro - programa de aprimoramento do raciocínio clínico

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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The present study intended to enable the expression of the characteristics of diagnosing professionals, so that they could acknowledge to what extent personal characteristics could influence their clinical decisions. OBJECTIVES: To test a program of permanent training, based on life histories, to improve clinical reasoning in nursing; to describe the topics present in cognitive and metacognitive processes of participants, triggered by program strategies; to analyze the influence of program strategies over clinical reasoning of participants; to describe the interventions used by the researchers. METHOD: Planning and execution of the research program and training in three hospitals and one nursing school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Data consisted of the writing productions of participants and the observations of the researchers, registered in diaries. Data were interpreted by analyzing the content based on theoretical assumptions about clinical reasoning and life histories and training. RESULTS: The program was implemented in a group of 7 nurses in a general university hospital and in two groups (7 and 6 members, respectively) of undergraduate nursing students. The three groups had 8 weekly meetings where they analyzed texts, healthcare examinations, case studies, written pieces and shared life histories and projects. The topics retrieved by the program comprised the affective and cognitive domains. Participants performed and reflected about the collection and interpretation of information, made clinical judgments, analyzed ethical-moral dilemmas, and the meanings of taking care of others and of themselves. CONCLUSIONS: Reflections about self-care and their own life histories (taking care of themselves) enabled the participants to revive the multiple influences that had formed them and had formed the others. They could maximize knowledge, skills and attitudes required to their relationships with healthcare users, co-workers and the profession (taking care of the others)

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nursing diagnosis formation autobiography história de vida julgamento clínico diagnóstico de enfermagem life history permanent education clinical judgment autobiografia clinical reasoning raciocínio clínico formação educação permanente

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