Impersonal Care or Humanized Care: a Decision Made by Nurses? Hourglass Model

Oscar Alberto Beltrán Salazar

doi:10.17533/udea.iee.325698

Authors

Oscar Alberto Beltrán Salazar RN, Ph.D. Professor, Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia, UdeA. Calle 70 No. 52-21, Medellín, Colombia. email: oscar.beltran@udea.edu.co

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iee.325698

Keywords:

Nursing care, humanization of assistance, dehumanization, adult, qualitative research.

Abstract

Objective. This work sought to understand the meaning of the experience of caring and how patients, family members, and nurses describe it.

Methods. This was a phenomenological interpretive study with 16 adult participants between 29 and 62 years of age, selected through purposeful sampling. The study was based on in-depth interviews to construct the information and on the procedures proposed by Munhal for the analysis.

Results. This work revealed a complex relation, understood as vicariant, between humanized care and impersonal care that influence upon independent aspects of the social and legal system, health institutions, and nurses. The themes comprising the experience of humanized care are described in the “hourglass” model.

Conclusion. Humanized care can displace impersonal care or vice versa, according to the orientation of nurses in the care practice and some elements from the institutional context.

How to cite this article: Beltrán O. Impersonal Care or Humanized Care: a Decision Made by Nurses? Hourglass Model. Invest. Educ. Enferm. 2016; 34(3): 444-455

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