Abstract

PAVAN BISON, Rosa Aparecida; FERREIRA FUREGATO, Antonia Regina  and  FERREIRA SANTOS, Jair Licio. Care perception among nursing students and professionals. Index Enferm [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.56, pp.30-34. ISSN 1699-5988.

This study aimed to get to know care perception and the relation between nursing students’ and nursing professionals’ conceptions, based on Morse’s concepts and classifications. We elaborated an instrument about care and its meanings, including statements that were analyzed by jurors and by a performance factor index. The instrument (Care Meaning Evaluation Scale - EESC) is a 5-point ordinal Likert scale with 45 statements, distributed across five categories: human personal characteristic, moral imperative, affection, interpersonal relation and therapeutic intervention. The 171 subjects were undergraduate and specialization students, nursing professionals and teachers. Data were subject to statistical treatment, using non-parametric tests. The greatest differences appeared between students’ and teachers’ conceptions, between the conceptions of care as a human characteristic (0.094) and as a moral imperative (0.043). Teachers and students reveal approximate positions with respect to categories, as well as specialization students and nurses, with significant differences between the groups (106-112 and 81-66). These results point towards the need for a more fine-tuned articulation between teaching and its application in professional practice.