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Expressions of art in nursing education and care: bibliometric study

This bibliometric study of scientific papers aimed to outline a profile concerning scientific publication involving expressions of art in nursing education and care. The SciELO and Medline databases were consulted using the key words, "art", "nursing", "teaching", and "care". The research uncovered 271 publications, given inclusion and exclusion criteria, and 45 articles published from 2004 to 2008 were analyzed. The country with the largest number of publications was the United States, followed by Brazil. The most frequent Brazilian journals were Texto & Contexto Nursing Journal and the Brazilian Journal of Nursing, with most studies using qualitative methods. With respect to the expression of art in the titles from analyzed studies, 55.5% of the publications referred to art and care, 26.6% to art and education, and 4.4% to both terms. It was concluded that art does not appear in the researched studies as an object of science, but as a tool for developing nursing care and education.

Art; Nursing; Teaching; Care; Bibliometry


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