title: Women's temporality after cardiac surgery: contributions to nursing care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to unveil women's existential movement after cardiac surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative phenomenological study. The research setting was a hospital in Minas Gerais, in which ten women were interviewed between December 2011 and January 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  after hospital discharge, the women experienced physical, social and emotional impairments, and expressed the desire to go back to the time before their diagnosis, because they felt as though they still had heart disease. This vague and average understanding led to three units of meaning that, from a Heideggerian hermeneutic point of view, revealed the phenomenon of cardiac surgery as a present circumstance that limited the participants' daily lives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  nurses supporting women patients after cardiac surgery should promote health considering existential facets that are expressed during care. The bases for comprehensive care are revealed in singular and whole meetings of subjectivity.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Thais Vasconselos
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Amorim
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Anna Maria de Oliveira
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Salimena
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ívis Emília de Oliveira
authors.initials: ÍE
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Aplicada, Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Carmen Simões Cardoso
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: de Melo
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade do Estado do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lúcia de Fátima
authors.initials: Lde F
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário UNA, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors.forename: Matilde Meire Miranda
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cadete
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010351:Patient Discharge; D036301:Qualitative Research