EDITORIAL
(Re) creation and innovation of nursing care
Regina Maria dos SantosI; Lenira Maria Wanderley Santos de AlmeidaI;Maria Cristina Soares Figueiredo TrezzaII
ICoordination of the Executive Committee of the 63rd Brazilian Nursing Congress, ABEn Alagoas Section. Maceió-AL, Brazil
IICoordination of the Subcommittee on Theme of the 63rd Brazilian Nursing Congress, ABEn Alagoas Section. Maceió-AL, Brazil
During the period of the 3rd through the 6th of October of 2011 the 63rd Brazilian Convention of Nursing (CBEn) was held in the city of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. The event had as its main theme the (Re) creation and innovation of nursing care which was a continuation of the objective of the Brazilian Association of Nursing to transform a major scientific-social and political event of Brazilian nursing, held in a private space, being compact and with an updating in nursing, also being associated or not with the professional entity.
During the event, we discussed and studied critically, how we can (re)invent our work of caring for people to become more qualified based on the science of the art of nursing, and also logically planned, organized and financed to produce useful effects for people, families, or human groups in their context of life, making them capable of fighting for promotions, protection, and the recovering of their health, on an individual or group basis. Offering space for learning and for the discussion of the possibilities of professional support, the program developed five main points that make up the work of a nurse: assistance, administration, education, investigation, and associate activity. The participants at the convention, the speakers and the authorities wove together a rich piece of work made up of a network of responsibilities, actualizations and partnerships which, fortified and consolidated, will support the projects for the future of the nursing profession and will also serve as a base for the institutional proposals that reflect the anxieties of the professionals and draw the attention of the patients cared for by SUS (public health service in Brazil).
To constitute the major work force in the health field and with the responsibility of carrying out approximately 70% of the health caring actions, we place ourselves in front of challenges to contribute without any doubt to the effectiveness of SUS, and to provide a qualified basis for our know/do. We also place ourselves in front of challenges to execute social control and to demand from the authorities our rights that correspond to our responsibilities, of which express the fight for better work conditions and for salaries that are just and in accordance with our importance; to fight for a work shift that is compatible with the responsibility for those who care for lives, and further more need also to care for themselves, to be able to offer care that doesn´t place risk for the caregiver or the person being care for.
Sustaining our practice on scientific evidence and also on ethical and esthetic values, the fight in nursing is for a universal, integral and even-minded quality of care. For this reason we discuss deeply the (re)creation of nursing care, care which cannot be far from a contemporary understanding, and also not far from ethical and universal principals, which have to respect moral and legal values. Due to these ideas, we are in a privileged position to demand a consolidation in the scheduling of responsibilities with the authorities to resolve the problems that we confront in the actual situation of nursing as an effective participant of SUS.
We are calling out to those people who are involved in the professional organizations, in a movement of active citizenship, based on the values that are a basis to the profession, for the strengthening of our professional representatives, for the advancement in our fight and specific victories and in defense of the fights in the social field.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
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Date of issue
Aug 2011
