ABSTRACT
Objective:
to reflect on the diligence of three studies that followed the convention of Convergent Care Research (Pesquisa Convergente Assistencial - PCA) as a methodological reference.
Results:
convergent Care Research is characterized by conducting improvements through introducing innovations in the context of nursing and health care practice. It is guided by its own attributes: immersibility; simultaneity; expandability and dialoging. Three studies using the Convergent Care Research method were analyzed: Study A consisted of constructing an informative material (booklet) as a technology to be developed based on the participants’ knowledge and experiences regarding the computed Tomograpy scan; Study B proposed to develop educational practices with a group of female garbage/recyclable material collectors to alleviate their workload and thus prevent occupational accidents; Study C developed an education proposal for training nurses who work in palliative care by constructing an instrument regarding pain assessment in cancer patients.
Conclusion:
all three studies showed that the Convergent Care Research method allows for the convergence between care actions and research actions in order to create superposition spaces of these two activities, with the production of new knowledge and changes in care practice. This method allows both research and care practice to be developed in the same physical and temporal space, and therefore they need to be disarticulated by conducting a specific analysis for each one.
DESCRIPTORS:
Research; Nursing research; Research and new techniques; Research in Health Services; Nursing
