title: [Technology in nursing care: an analysis from the conceptual framework of Fundamental Nursing].
abstract: This is a qualitative, field research, whose purpose was to discuss the use of technologies in the nursing care in intensive therapy, taking as reference the theoretical conceptual framework of Fundamental Nursing. Observation and interviews were conducted with twenty two nurses of an intensive therapy unit, with ethnographic analysis. The technology, from the domain of a technological language, provides conditions so that the fundamentals of the nursing care can be effectively incorporated to the nurse practice. The idea of dehumanization linked to the technology can be explained by the way that the nurse ads sense to the things related to his daily life, which will guide his action. The conclusion is that the technologies help to promote life and to rescue the human.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Rafael Celestino
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Enfermagem, Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia de Assunção
authors.initials: Mde A
authors.lastname: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000592:standards*