BUSINESS PRACTICES IN CONNECTION WITH NURSING AND BIOMEDICAL MODELS

Abstract

Objectives: to analyze the connections of professional practices with the nursing and biomedical models and identify the factors involved in the professional dynamics. Method: this is a descriptive study made with nurses of a hospital and nurses of the Health Center that collaborate in the formation of the nursing students, with a sample of 227 nurses who had answered a structuralized questionnaire. Results: the data disclose that 69,9% of the nurses reported that they used, like professional practice, 27,1% stated that they don’t have a model as reference the nursing model as a reference, and only 3,4% which say they are guided by the biomedical model. 80.5% assume the need of a reference model in the professional practice. The factors that more influence practical as the models of nursing are, the complete development of the process of cares, the formation and the relation using nurse/sick person/equipe and according to biomedical model, the norms of the organization and the medical diagnosis. Conclusion: the hospital nurses see the nursing, essentially, as reparative function, whose main target is the disease and the only purpose is to heal. Nurses from the health center are more distant from these functions and more linked to issues related to health promotion. Descriptors: nursing; nursing care; theoretical models; nursing models.