...very nice attitude of them, right, very nice persons, have no prejudice against us poor people, right, and they come visiting... (F1)
...like in the day they arrived, when I was making little cakes, they even ate cakes... that I made... (F2)
...that visit was a pleasure for us to chat with them, talk to them, open up to them... (F3) |
On the first visit I was very shocked. I got disappointed and thought I wouldn't do anything. That house with one room, with a door and a window and nothing else... It had only a bed, a stove, an old couch, food, and clothes hanging on the walls, the floor carpet all wet, the sanitary sewer ran in front of the house. There live the woman and six children. But as the visits continued, the mother and children were able to increase the house a little. Then we start thinking: how can they live in such a situation? People complain about so many trivial things, but then you realize that the children live happily even without having anything. (E1) |
Being a mediator of a theoretical-practical innovative activity does not seem to be as simple for the academicized eyes addicted to hegemonic knowledge, at first glance. Initially, they needed to rethink values and personal beliefs, questioning the very practice of being, of thinking on nursing, as well as to review the very concept of health reduced to the absence of disease. Accompanying students in visits to these families, creating affective and effective bonds, it means to let prejudices aside, to broaden perspectives, and believe that it is possible to dream of a more entrepreneurial and transformative practice of the real needs of the population. (P1) |
If ot her universities also had this bonding link between the human being and the professional, yeah, that there's not much difference, but the good professional, he graduates knowing the reality... So, like, this is highly positive, A grade for those students, right... (F5)
.. .'t would be nice if you could meet others, you know, to bring these other people the same things they made us feel, you know... It would be nice... The suggestion would be to include other families. (F8)
...we talked a lot, about serious things, about my life, they got to know a bit of me and my family and I knew a bit of each one of them... pretty cool, pretty natural... (F13)
Those students learning how to bathe and change the diaper from those children, they actually formed a big family, yeah, the institution and the family, the family and the institution... Only that linking bond the years won't ever erase remained. As much as distance separates these human beings, at that moment, that one good thing that happened will remain for life. (F14)
...we chat with them, talk to them, we open ourselves up to them, even myself, I have... like... well, I managed to open up so much to them, I got some fondness for those girls, you know, all honesty, I opened myself up to them... (F16)
That affection they have with us, that you have with us here. You come from there... there on the other side, to hear our... how do I say it, our problems, the attention you give us. (F20)
It was good... we were very fond of them... because I like them a lot, I love them. (F21)
... but I had a fondness for those girls, the bond I had with them was the most amazing thing... (F23)
...they were like my daughters to me, when they come, to me it looks like my daughters arrived... (F26) |
Whenever we arrived there, she soon would ask when the next visit would be. She always welcomed us very well. She was so happy she didn't know what to do first. (E3)
During the first few visits, we went there and realized that we had nothing to do. We asked the professor to exchange our families, but then she made us think that we needed to look at our surroundings, and gradually we were realizing that they had no apparent disease, but a huge need to talk. They wouldn't stop talking. They always waited for us, eager to tell us their lives. (E4)
On the first visit, I thought I would teach and bring a lot of knowledge to these families. But since the first meeting I realized they had all the information on everything. They recycle trash, they have a wonderful garden, they collect all rainwater for the plants... They did a lot of things I didn't do in my house... I learned a lot from them. (E5)
This lingering feeling is one of a great lesson of life... Even with all the problems, they were always excited and happy, and we sometimes complain about so little. (E6)
Our family's house is in terrible condition. It could collapse anytime. At every heavy rain, I pray and ask God to protect that house, because he has a two months baby. So far we've already got some contacts to get all the building materials and a professional to make the new house plan. Now we only need to gain resources to pay for a bricklayer. We have to help accomplish this family's huge dream (E7).
In our family's home there aren't chairs to sit on. I always wondered how and where the girls study. One day I went there and saw the two taking turns in an old chair that was outside the house. Then I asked where they studied on rainy days, they just looked at me and didn't answer. (E8)
In our family, the kids wouldn't visit their parents anymore. With our presence, they started getting closer... We think they got moved by the fact we were interested in them. (E9)
Now we already managed to create a group of families... They meet once a week. At first, she always said that everything was fine. But as we were forming the bond, she started being open and told us that her husband bashed her constantly. (E10)
The boy who didn't speak anything at first gradually started talking. He gave us hugs and showed us little chicks. (E11) |
Sometimes I felt confused and insecure, especially when faced with conflict situations - family fights or between neighbors... It wasn't clear how to conduct those complex situations with the students. (P2)
Accompanying students to home visits, we had the opportunity to experience a reality until then very distant from our daily lives. To rethink values, observe cultures and formations different from ours instigated us to re-examine the concepts we had up to that time. The nursing practice must be present in all social and cultural contexts, acting on behalf of the human being. (P3)
This process transcended from the academic daily life to the cultural and social through dialogue with different knowledge [...] enabling an ethical rethinking, based on the autonomy of the subjects. (P4)
The role of the professor as facilitator of actions in the community needs to be in accordance with the structural conditions, the culture, the values, the accessibility to health services, and the basic mechanisms of life in society, in order to instigate the different. These kinds of action, which lead students to experience the reality of health determinants, large and complex, becomes more challenging when health care is directed to the families subjected to numerous vulnerabilities... (P5)
I never thought our presence would be so significant. I remember I asked our family's mother, 24 years old, if she was thinking about continuing education. She told me that she couldn't, because of her small children... but on the next visit she soon told us she had looked on the possibility of continuing her studies. Soon I remembered the importance of our talking and presence. She felt instigated. (P7)
At the beginning, we felt like our hands were tied... We got frustrated many times. We thought our visits were useless. But in the end, when we thought about it, we realized the transformations that had occurred. (P8) |
...they were already part of my family... The children said: 'Hey, mom, your daughters are coming...' (F31)
...until now I like them, I miss them. We cried. We miss them... I wish they would come back. (F39)
Look, I tell you, I miss it... It's been a while since they last came, right, and I'm missing them now, you know, that day-to-day contact. (F43)
Look, wish they be very happy, thank you very much for what they did for us. (F54)
We have to be patient, right, because problems, everyone has them, we have to be patient and the solution will come. No matter how difficult, no matter how complicated it is, we always reach a solution. Nothing is impossible! If we fight, persist, move forward, we achieve everything. I understood it more or less like that. (F72) |
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