Learning humanized care: the graduating nursing student’s perspective

Abstract

The humanization of nursing care is a relevant aspect in the context of public health policy and involves the responsibility of health institutions and the formation of professionals in this area. Within this perspective, we intended to develop this study aiming to understand the experience of the nursing graduate regarding the learning of humanized care; to verify their knowledge of this area; and to describe the practical situations that favor or hinder the learning of humanized care assistance. This is a qualitative approach research, accomplished with graduating nursing students from a public university in the state of Goiás. The data was collected by semi-structured interviews and submitted to the thematic analysis of content. The categories generated from this process were: “personalizing humanized care”, “living and feeling humanized care” and “humanizing care in practice”. The data reveals that students recognize the importance of learning humanizing care assistance in their training and they value this aspect, signaling enabling and hindering factors in that process. The understanding of the challenged graduating nursing students face in those experiences is fundamental to the orientation of pedagogic practices that value and stimulate the ethical dimension of care.