OBJECTIVES: To investigate aspects of the hospital routine, recognizing bioethical principles (PB) impacting the delivery of nursing; verify that improving this situation requires that the concept of respect is rooted in this routine, with the patients; and, assess whether differences exist in the concept of respect among nurses working in a teaching hospital and those who graduated recently from a Program for Improvement of Personnel. METHODS: This was an exploratory, qualitative approach, performed in a large hospital involving, as participants in the study, 20 recent graduates. RESULTS: It was found that graduated student realizes that the PB helped in their routine; that the concept of respect applies in all situations with patients; and that the workload makes it difficult to anchor this concept in practice. CONCLUSION: Recently graduated students had more difficulty than more experienced nurses in overcoming the routine of work and identifying ways of anchoring this concept.
Humanization of assistance; Bioethics; Nursing care; Professional training
