Memórias e representações sociais dos cuidados de saúde prestados por enfermeiros às pessoas vivendo com HIV

Abstract

Introduction: The object of study consists of representations and memories of health care practices performed by nurses to people living with HIV. Objective: Analyze the memories and social representations of health care practices provided by nurses to people living with HIV, on an outpatient basis. Methodology: This is a qualitative research, based on the Theory of Social Representations, associated with the perspective of social memory. The study was developed from 28 interviews with nurses working in the North, Northeast and Southeast regions, in specialized care services for people living with HIV. Data collection was carried out between 2011 and 2013 and a sociodemographic questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used. The interviews were submitted to categorical thematic analysis. Results: The results are expressed in six categories, which are: 1. Conceptual dimension of health care; 2. Health care modalities provided / required to people living with HIV; 3. Nursing care modalities provided to people living with HIV; 4. Technological and professional resources for health care; 5. Quality of care facilities and difficulties faced in health care practices 6. Professional performance at the beginning of the epidemic until 2013. Since the beginning of the aids epidemic and until 2013, there has been an modification process in social representations of health care practices for people living with HIV, who have been adapting to technological changes, advances in science, the introduction of antiretroviral therapy and the chronicity of aids, characterizing in 2013 a integral health care. Conclusion: The social representations developed in society, throughout the epidemic, influenced the practices of nurses and other health professionals. There is an important movement of behavioral change and practices in relation to professional care that has become more scientific, more accessible, and more inclusive.