PubMed · 6556091
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S Y Lu. 1983-04-05. [What is "nursing process"].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6556091/
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The author sets out to know the degree of use of the Nursing Treatment Process (NTP) and its possible relationship with these factors: its profile, knowledge about NTP and the Virginia Henderson Model (VHM), nurses case loads and nurses opinions. The subjects in this study have been nurses in the Sant Martí sanitary district in Barcelona. The methodology used consisted in transversal and qualitative descriptive studies performed in 2001; the use of NTP by means of an audit of at home patient visits, NTP-VHM knowledge and profile by means of an anonymous self-administered questionnaire which had 30 theoretical-practical questions; nurses case load study by means of an analysis of the population attended to by nurse per year and nursing activities; and a qualitative study which used opinion questions and interviews.
This study tries to understand the relation between the reality of the nurse's everyday work and the construction process of this identity, using Agnes Heller's sociological theory of everyday life as the main reference. The possibilities of the worker's expression and fulfillment occur through objective and subjective elements of job reality which comes upon the worker as people who put order and tension in their everyday job; these job determinants imprint and produce impacts, giving sense to the work quality and constructing concrete possibilities to the worker to manifest him/herself as Whole being, guiding the construction of his/her identity.
To put into practice a reform of treatment procedures requires a planned process for change which should have the support of convinced leaders, dynamic working teams, new development procedures and a reflexive practice which guarantees integrated care. All of this is united with the development of an autonomous role, with the acquisition of competence, with a professional compromise and with a capacity to innovate. At the same time, all of these factors should not divert us from our central objective: to generate humane, quality nursing care which allows an individual to utilize his/her energy to reestablish a balance in their health.