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Introduction: The naming of intensive care units (ICUs) has varied over time. From intensive surveillance units, intensive care units, intensive medicine units to critical care units. In practice these denominations seem to overlap to such an extent that surveillance seems to prevail over care. Methodology: reflexive article with a hermeneutic phenomenological approach that addresses the phenomenon of daily life in the ICU in relation to spatial design, power relations and time lived in order to problematize the denomination Intensive Care Unit as opposed to Intensive Surveillance Unit. Results: the daily life of the ICU is a regulated and highly controlled space, in which the life of professionals and patients is conducted through different mechanisms to such an extent that it has characteristics of what authors such as Goffman consider total institutions. In which, through depersonalization mechanisms, the characteristic heterogeneity of the human being is homogenized. Conclusion: Caring implies to watch, to be attentive, to be on guard and to control in some cases. However, it is not reduced to this; caring also implies recognizing oneself as a finite and vulnerable being, that is, as an eminently compassionate being. Care cannot be authoritarian, nor can it undermine the capacity of agency of the subjects of care; on the contrary, it is a possibility that allows us to resist the structures and devices that control life. Caring as an instinctive and reflexive act at the same time, supposes a double nature between pathos and logos, this same nature cannot be blurred inside the ICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Foundation: the World Health Organization defines euthanasia as the deliberate action carried out by a person with the intention of causing the painless death of another subject, or not preventing death from natural causes, in case of terminal illness or irreversible coma. Objective: to identify the information level about euthanasia as a professional dilemma in sixth level nursing students. Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional research carried out from October 2021 to March 2022 at the Los Andes Regional Autonomous University. The studied population was 43 sixth level nursing students. The studied variables were: perception of the euthanasia definition, personal criteria on the application of euthanasia, perception of the doctor's determination in the use of euthanasia and criteria of the students on the indicated person to decide on euthanasia. Results: 79 % recognize that euthanasia is a procedure that helps end the life of the patient who is critically ill. 46% believe that euthanasia should only be applied to patients with incurable diseases. Almost half of those surveyed believe that the doctor should determine the application of euthanasia. More than half responded that the person indicated to decide on euthanasia should be the patient himself. Conclusions: the euthanasia conflict is determined by the ethics involved in the matter in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On a daily basis, nurses face ethical challenges and moral dilemmas. Their work is identified with the highest moral and social values: human life, the dignity of the person and freedom. All this makes nursing an authentic moral practice. This condition requires that its professionals must develop both technical competence and moral capacity, inspired by the solidarity dimension that appears in the face of human vulnerability. Circumstance that obliges the professional to pursue moral excellence through instruction in the knowledge of laws and moral principles, and to acquire and put into practice the virtues that allow achieving the internal good of the profession. The objective of this study is to identify and describe the virtues that nurses must acquire to carry out their work in an excellent way. Thus, the nurse who acquires the virtues of humility, prudence, trust, fidelity, diligence, truthfulness, discretion, empathy, sensitivity, respect, compassion, altruism and responsibility will be able to achieve excellence in care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this reflective article is to analyze how the relationship between nursing care and comparison ethics is maintained and some effects of the protocolization of care in said relationship. Methodology: The delimitation of the analysis topic arises within the framework of a narrative exercise of care experiences, in the conceptual categories nursing care - comparison - protocol are interrelated. A reflective theoretical analysis is carried out mainly from the phenomenology of M. Heidegger and the philosophy of finitude from JC Melich. Conclusion: the relationship between caring and compassion is inherent. You can't be careful without compassion and you can't have compassion without care, compassion exalts nursing care and this is your time is the hope of an ethic of compassion. However, this can be broken down by the protocolization of nursing care and practices, taking care away from its true essence, the ethics of compassion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the field of public health, Bioethics became necessary due to the rapid pace of scientific and technological advances, the commercialization of medicine, the increasing danger of dehumanization, social injustice and unequal access to health services. Literature review had the purpose of assessing the dehumanization features of health services and their involvement in the formation of human resources. Concepts, trends and challenges present in the nursing profession were reviewed and in these professionals´ work. A close relationship was found between humanism, ethics, bioethics and spirituality and their meaning to increasingly improve work as health professionals and technicians. Modern nursing has the obligation to maintain the care that has accompanied humanity since its dawn, but today, constituted in a profession with scientific foundation, it has enough potential to provide more quality and efficient care to the healthy or sick individual, to the community and the natural environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The postmodern society based on a neoliberal model questions the strong value component characteristic of professional nursing care. Faced with this situation, the question arises: How is valuation training faced by nursing students and how are these students living in the practice of care? Objective: To analyze what has been researched in the last ten years about the ethical formation in nursing students and the value practice of these professionals in a postmodern society. Methodology: Mixed systematic review of a narrative nature that I consider the last ten years (2008-2018), includes 76 articles, of which 48 were selected for analysis. The databases were revised: ProQuest, ProQuest education Database, ProQuest Religion Database, Ebsco, Cuiden, Dialnet plus, Latindex, Scielo, SCOPUS and Google academic. Conclusions: Postmodernism upsets professional values, both in the practice of care and in the training of future professionals, for this reason it is necessary to strengthen and adapt the traditional values between the academy and the clinic, focusing the training on the teacher as a model of professional practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to integrate the evidence about the uncertainty about the disease in the patient with chronic illness and their family caretaker, guided by the theory of uncertainty about the disease. For this, an integrative synthesis of the literature was carried out during the years 2007 to 2017. The Medline, Science Direct, Ovid Nursing, Scielo, Scopus, CINAHL and Psycinfo databases were used in the English and Spanish languages. To carry out the integrative synthesis, 46 publications were included, with 21 qualitative, 19 quantitative, 2 mixed and 4 reviews. The studies were mostly carried out in patients with cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, organic failures, heart failure, COPD and in palliative care of different diseases. Among the main conclusions of the study, it is suggested that the person with chronic illness and their family caretaker develop uncertainty about the chronic illness due to shortcomings in education about the disease and care, as well as the social support they receive from the health team and its support networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The universities have the responsibility to train nurses able to recognize the needs of the health system, which must respond to ethical conduct and humane care. Objective: To determine the knowledge on ethical principles and their application to the care process by nursing students at the University of Cauca. Methodology: Quantitative approach study, descriptive cross-sectional type. The sample 155 students enrolled in the nursing program between III and X semester I period 2015. This adapts and validates a questionnaire evaluation questions to determine knowledge and a problematic question to measure the application of the principles. Results: the principles of loyalty, charity and loyalty were the best known and the principles of non-maleficence, justice and truth were the least knowledge. Those who had less knowledge were students of lower semesters, which in turn were those who had received fewer courses and more knowledge were students of higher semesters, with greater participation in ethics courses. The principles were applied acceptably despite not having solid knowledge about them. Conclusion: The research allows us to conclude that the teaching of ethics in nursing requires more attention and should be transversal in career development because it creates a solid foundation in ethical principles that will allow the nurse (a) address the ethical dilemmas present throughout his professional life and provide a humanized care [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nurses are exposed to face ethical conflicts because the responsibilities associated with caring for people and the fact of working in a health field ever more tech and complex. Objective: Analyze the ethical issues that affect nursing care, caused by the advance of technology in health services. Development: Nurses are responsible for the use of technology, so it requires professional training in the use and application of therapeutic or diagnostic techniques, should be used ethical criteria and values of discipline with a view holistic and humanistic care of people. An approach healthcare based on ethics implies that the nurse considers the human being with absolute respect and dignity. Conclusions: Nursing must demonstrate humanized care in all actions executed by applying the ethical knowledge, attitudes and values towards caring person. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, nursing has been able to recognize the importance of ethical requirements linked to the act of caring, recognizing the different conflicts of value that nursing professionals must face daily. Nevertheless, the nursing profession has not yet been able to identify a single bioethical model that encompasses all the aspects that stem from its professional activity, and which would help to improve the perceived quality of health services, thus humanizing the professional act of caring. This study aims, through theoretical discussion and the constant comparison method, to demonstrate the nursing profession’s need to know the various bioethical models; especially the so-called “ethics of care”, a model proposed in 1982 by the American psychologist and philosopher Carol Gilligan, which may serve as the foundation to define a specific nursing bioethical model. Likewise, this article aims to explain the difference between ethics of care and ethics of caring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introducción: el consentimiento informado (CI) está fundamentado en el principio bioético del respeto a la autonomía. Su utilidad en los actos de cuidado, con frecuencia, se relaciona más con aspectos administrativos e incluso jurídicos y se antepone a la visión deontológica en la que se fundamenta la relación enfermeropaciente. Es un acto inherente a las prácticas de cuidado que plantea un desafío para el desarrollo ético y humanístico de la disciplina. Objetivo: identifcar el conocimiento e importancia que los estudiantes de enfermería tienen sobre el CI aplicado a los actos propios del cuidado de enfermería, mediante la aplicación de la teoría de los patrones del conocimiento en enfermería (PCE). Materiales y métodos: estudio descriptivo, cuantitativo trasversal, muestra 184 estudiantes, instrumento de diseño propio; tipo escala de Likert, con 40 ítems, distribuidos sobre las variables: conocimiento e importancia del CI. En la validación del instrumento se realizó: validez de contenido mediante juicio de expertos, evaluación de propiedades métricas mediante alfa de Cronbach (coefciente de 0,838) y prueba piloto con 21 estudiantes. Análisis y tabulación: software SPSS presentado en diagramas de dispersión matricial; historial de conglomeración y dendogramas, aplicando análisis tipo clúster. Resultados: no hubo diferencias en los valores entre hombres y mujeres. Con el apoyo de la teoría de los PCE se determinaron los patrones del conocimiento que están más favorecidos y cuáles tienen un desarrollo incipiente. Se da poca importancia al documento escrito, y más relevancia al proceso de suministro de información en la ejecución de actos de cuidado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to explore how to apply Patricia Benner's philosophy on the clinical field, a research was done about the scientific literature, initially with a five year range. However, little material was found on that field and for this reason it was decided to increase the range to a period ranging from 1984 to 2010. 90 articles were found and 52 of them were selected. This article establishes the skills that a professional nurse needs during the clinical practice, based on Patricia Benner's approach that modified the Dreyfus brothers' skill acquisition levels in order to apply them to nursery in the clinical area; additionally, it is related to the knowledge patterns described by Barbara Carper and the profile that a nurse must have in order to take care of patients who, either due to their age or clinical condition, are located on the ICU or pediatrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe a reflection based on an experience about the communication. In this experience, the interpretation of the message was essential. The first step of the sanitary intervention is the interview with the patient. After that, we can detect their needs and begin to act properly. The inadequate interpretation of the data obtained by the interview may conduct to unexpected outcomes. Frequently, the patients reinterpret or even reinvent the names of the drugs which are part of their usual treatment. Sometimes, it may also happen with the name of their diseases or the description of their underlying pathology. They may be influenced by several factors (cultural, geographical, etc). Decipher its true meaning may pose a real challenge sometimes. A recent conversation with my grandmother led me to reflect on the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients. This reflection is presented in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Work in the health field can be very demanding at the affective level. The emotional component in the personal relationship affects all those involved: patients, families and professionals. It can lead us to feel upset, as in this story, when we believe that our actions have proved futile. On numerous occasions we do not come to know our real impact on the lives of patients. All health professionals have some experience that moves us. This is mine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]