SUMMARY
Venezuelan health and nursing policies in the frame of human caring
This work is set within the field of "Human Milieu and the Practice of Nursing in the investigative area of Doctorate in Nursing, Health and Human Caring". Its general objective is to analyze the existing health care policies in Venezuela under the perspective of philosophical, epistemological, ontological, axiological and health care ideas, categorizing them in their applicability to actual human health care and nursing. The investigation has been made by means of gathering pertinent texts related to and matching this dissertation's general objective: to understand and interpret several conceptions that in one way or another allow the findings theoretical and philosophical bases so that the health care system may count upon the participation of nurses in the formulation of health care policies in the context of human care. The employed methodology arose from putting together Sabino's formulation (1986) and that of Torre Vilar (1989), following a three-phased process; First phase: (Logical Moment); second phase: execution (Technical Moment); and the third phase: (Moment of Conclusion): elaboration of conclusions and recommendations. The technical tools used were analyses of content of the theoretical aspects of policy, health, nursing and human caring, following Ruiz & Ispizua's (1989) qualitative presumptions. The entirety of foregoing aspects agreed upon defining health as vitality; the ability to create new and more gratifying ways of living, and envisioning men/women as human beings. Among the most important conclusions presented, the following are worth mentioning; greater emphasis on the outlined political actions tends to bring about the cultural and organizational exchanges demanded by the health sector in order that the State becomes responsible for general and appropriate health care services and programs; universal and unequivocal access by all citizens, without direct charges for such services to users who give priority to their health and body's well-being through prevention and promotion of their bodily functions. That nursing personnel endorse a political system of laws underlining human health care as a civil right humanely provided for and based on patriotic communal political consciousness, tending to consistent justice in the institutionalization of liberty, equality, honesty, co-responsibility, loyalty, peace loving, promotion of prosperity, people's general well-being, families, communities, and the people of Venezuela.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
29 Oct 2007 -
Date of issue
Sept 2007
