This study's objective was to understand the practices of comprehensiveness revealedin the ambits of the management, care and training, based on the care given to the new-born hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
METHODS:
A qualitative study with a dialectical approach. The data was collected through participant observation and interviews with managers, lecturers and students, and was analyzed using Thematic Content Analysis.
RESULTS:
Evidence was found of managers' and professionals' practices which contribute to the comprehensiveness of the care for the neonate, such as the de-centralization of management actions, joint decision-making with the health professionals, encouragement to work as a team, and the valuing of the family. The integration of the service's professionals into the teaching-learning process was indicated as a strategy for a training guided by comprehensiveness.
CONCLUSION:
It is ascertained that articulation between management, care and training is necessary for the construction of care based on comprehensiveness.
Neonatal Intensive Care Units; Infant Newborn; Comprehensive health care