[From practice contexts towards the (co)construction of family nursing care models].
As nurses face challenges in the development of care focused on the family as a context and unit of intervention, this research aimed to identify family intervention processes in the context of Primary Healthcare. This qualitative-based study adopted the investigation-action approach on a study plan's five-step path. By means of the comparative analysis of family care practices and conceptual models, the diagnosis results brought forth the need for change triggered by training processes. Having the Systemic Model, the Calgary Family Assessment Model, and the Calgary Family Intervention Model as references, the family nursing care model was (re)constructed and operationalized through the definition of attention and intervention areas. The (re) construction of the model from the needs identified by nurses and legitimated by their decision-making processes is the basis for family nursing focused discussions.
Figueiredo
Maria Henriqueta de Jesus Silva
MH
Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto, Portugal. henriqueta@esenf.pt
Martins
Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva
MM
D022143:Family Nursing; D016294:Models, Nursing