Responsibility for the assumed work. A requirement for nurses in humanized care

Abstract

Objective: To understand the meaning of the experience of humanized nursing care for patients, families and nurses. Methodology: Interpretative phenomenological study involving 16 adult participants, based on in-depth interviews for building information. Results: The responsibility of nurses in care as a requirement to move from an impersonal attention to a humanized care is refl ected in the interest in acting well and doing things well, achieving communicative and relational skills, in performing care based on theoretical proposals, in studying and learning about new approaches and practices in the care. Conclusions: The nurses’ concordance between knowing what to do and acting with orientation towards the good contributes to humanized care.