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Educare

Educare

JULIO 2006 N° 7 Volumen 4

Solidarity care: a strategy for the care of people with medullary lesion

Section: TEACHING TO LEARN

Authors

1Zuila María de Figueiredo Carvalho, 2Juliana Costa Neves, 3Paula de Oliveira Fontenele Moraes, 4Gyselle Agostinho Rolim, 5Ana Claudia Silva Lemos

Position

1Enfermera. Post-Doctorada por la UNL Lisboa-Portugal. Doctora en Enfermería. Profesora del Departamento de Enfermería y del Programa de Postgrado de la UFC. Coordinadora del NUPEN-DENF, UFC.2Enfermera. Mestranda de la Enfermería del Programa de Postgrado de la UFC. Miembro del NUPEN/DENF/UFC.3Estudiante del Curso de Graduación en Enfermería de la FFOE/UFC. Bursátil y IC/PIBIC/UFC. Miembro del NUPEN.44Estudiante del Curso de Graduación en Enfermería de la FFOE-UFC. Bursátil de IC/PIBIC/UFC. Miembro del NUPEN.5Estudiante del Curso de Graduación en Enfermería de la FFOE-UFC. Bursátil voluntaria del NUPEN.

Contact address

Calle Cônego Braveza, 1332. CEP 60.822.820 Fortaleza Ceará- Brasil.

Contact email: zmfca@fortalnet.com.br

Abstract

This work was performed within the framework of the NUPEN: Research and Extension Core Unit of Neurological Nursing of the Nursing Department of the School of Pharmacy, Odontology and Nursing of the Federal University of Ceará (DENF/FFOE/UFC). We would like to thank the Research Pro-Dean and Postgraduate Course Office of the UFC for the granting of the Scientific Research bases.
 
 
A descriptive study that takes Solidarity Care as the starting point to develop a strategy for the care of tetraplegic, paraplegic and tetraparesic people resulting from a traumatic lesion. The objective of this strategy is to report the experience of caring for people with medullary lesion, based on the presuppositions of solidarity care, and to present a theoretical framework from the conceptions of solidarity care based on the premises of reciprocal help, solidarity, respect and human ethics, as well as the application stages of the model. The experience indicates that this care strategy is represented by an ethical/moral commitment, thus permitting involvement of the nurse with the cared person. Nurses who adopt these solidarity attitudes, in the way in which they apply such care, comply with and meet the objectives proposed by solidarity care standards, which is nothing more than to care for individuals in a more technical and scientifically oriented but always individualised manner.

Keywords:

solidarity care; lesion of the spinal cord (medullary and vertebrae)help relationship

Versión en Español

Título:

Cuidado solidario: una estrategia para el cuidado de las personas con lesión medular