Faith community nursing is one of the newest specialized practices of professional nursing. A faith community nurse is an actively registered professional nurse, who serves as a paid or volunteer staff member in a faith community. The faith community nurse promotes health and wholism of the faith community, its groups, families, and individual members. A faith community, as in a church, synagogue or mosque, is an organization of individuals and families who share common beliefs, values, religious doctrine, and faith practices that influence their lives. The faith community functions as a client system for the faith community nurse. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the experiences of Protestant faith community nurses "living the call" to health ministry. Previous researchers have explored the roles of the faith community nurse, but have not specifically investigated the experience of living the call. A hermeneutical phenomenological methodology was used to answer the question, "What is the lived experience of faith community nurses living the call to health ministry?" The participants were ten Caucasian female faith community nurses residing in four regions in the Commonwealth of Virginia. All participants acknowledged receiving a "call" to health ministry. A structured interview of 60 to 90 minutes was conducted with each participant. The interview consisted of structured and semi-structured questions and explored the meaning of living the call to health ministry. Data were analyzed using the phenomenological method of Max van Manen. Five themes emerged including: 1) the calling; 2) relating to God in living the call; 3) practice in living the call; 4) challenges in living the call; and 5) blessings in living the call. Participants described the experiences of the callings to health ministry, consistent communications with God and the challenges and blessings of faith community nursing. The practices of faith community nurses were also described by the participants. The findings provide a glimpse into the lifeworld of the faith community nurse living the call to health ministry. This study may be helpful to others wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of the calling to health ministry as well as the experiences of relating to God, practice, challenges, and blessings.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T23:44:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Debora Faim Lazarini1.pdf: 1656014 bytes, checksum: 6f93b5fd691007f4404a282ab26b87c5 (MD5) Debora Faim Lazarini2.pdf: 1316617 bytes, checksum: 574a897cbb51fea14ff4cac7c7966ba7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-05 / This work has as its aim to analyze the Art and Architecture modernism s trajectory consolidation aspects in Brazil, studing the period of time that goes from Modern Art Week (1922) to Education and Health Ministry building project formulation (1936), in order to verify what manner economic, political, social and, above all, cultural order happenings have contributed to the appearance of the brazilian modern architecture that would be, in the following decades, issue for eulogious international studies. In view of the relationship between historical process, it makes an analysis that surpasses by a panoramic vision and that, following chronologic narration order, it extracts distincts elements that have already been separately studied in knowledge areas as history, literature, sociology, arts, architecture, etc., in order to compose a frame to allow understanding the Ministry s episode inside our history time line. Taking the success reached by our modern architecture as a presumption which is a result of a happy conciliations between modernity and tradition, this research goes to indicate signs, not only from the political and economical moments, but above all, from the modernist intellectuality proceeding from 22 Week, specially from nationalist groups, that let the brazilian architects to think about an architecture with brazilian characteristics, different from the architecture produced in other countries and continents. / Trabalho que se destina a analisar aspectos da trajetória de consolidação do moderno da arte e da arquitetura no Brasil, percorrendo o período que se estende da Semana de Arte Moderna (1922) à formulação do projeto do edifício do Ministério da Educação e da Saúde (1936), a fim de verificar de que forma acontecimentos de ordem econômica, política, social e, sobretudo, cultural contribuíram para o surgimento dessa arquitetura moderna brasileira que seria, nas décadas seguintes, objeto de elogiosos estudos internacionais. Dada a interdisciplinaridade do processo histórico, empreende-se uma análise que prima pela visão panorâmica e que, seguindo narrativa em ordem cronológica, extrai elementos distintos que já foram estudados isoladamente em áreas do conhecimento como história, literatura, sociologia, artes plásticas, arquitetura etc., de forma a compor o quadro que permite compreender o episódio do Ministério dentro da linha do tempo de nossa história. Partindo do pressuposto de que o sucesso alcançado por nossa arquitetura moderna é fruto de uma feliz conciliação entre modernidade e tradição, a pesquisa busca indicar marcas, não só dos momentos político e econômico, mas sobretudo da intelectualidade modernista proveniente da Semana de 22 , em especial das correntes nacionalistas, que levaram os arquitetos brasileiros a pensar uma arquitetura de características brasileiras, diferenciada da arquitetura produzida em outros países e continentes.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi examinar a prática adotada para disponibilização de leitos para internação pelos hospitais públicos da cidade de Taubaté - SP. Os hospitais-foco desse estudo foram escolhidos por acessibilidade não probabilística e os entrevistados selecionados por interesse dentro do perfil de caráter Público. O estudo possibilitou identificar eventuais lacunas e oportunidades de melhoria na gestão pública hospitalar, observar fatores e variáveis socioeconômicos e demográficos como, por exemplo, receitas Estaduais e Municipais, renda per capita, taxas Estaduais e Municipais e Dados Territoriais, além do número de internações por especialidades. O método utilizado foi a pesquisa de natureza exploratório-descritiva e documental. Foi utilizada uma entrevista semi-estruturada junto aos gestores dos hospitais pesquisados. Após a coleta, por meio de documentos fornecidos por órgãos reguladores e entrevistas com os respectivos gestores, os dados foram examinados e comparados com os parâmetros da Portaria MS n 1101/GM. Diante dos resultados encontrados concluiu-se que os hospitais públicos dessa cidade atendem parcialmente aos parâmetros estabelecidos pela Portaria 1101/GM. Em particular, no que diz respeito às internações por especialidades médicas, há um cenário de muitas oportunidades para os gestores hospitalares, a começar pela expertise na gestão pública profissionalizada, arraigada no processo de melhoria contínua na qual há a necessidade de mudanças no sistema de administração hospitalar, devido à complexidade dessa organização. Enfim, é imprescindível que haja a inter-relação dos saberes interdisciplinares eivados na busca do conhecimento do todo da organização hospitalar e também em partes devido à pluralidade de profissionais de diferentes formações e de serviços. Há oportunidades na gestão da saúde por meio de ações preventivas, não tardias ou dispendiosas, com diagnósticos precisos e tratamento multidisciplinar. Essa mudança seria um alvo a ser atingido. / The aim of this paper is to examine the practice adopted for the provision of beds for public hospitals by the city of Taubaté - SP. The hospitals focused on this study were chosen for non-probabilistic accessibility, and the interviewees selected by interest in the public character profile. The study enabled to identify possible gaps and opportunities for improvement in public hospital management, observe socioeconomic factors and demographic variables such as, for example, state and local income, per capita income, state and local taxes, territorial data, besides the number of hospitalizations for specialties. The method used was the exploratory-descriptive and documentary research. Data were collected through a semi-structured interviews with the managers of the hospitals surveyed and through the documents provided by regulatory agency. Afterwards, the corpora were examined and compared with the parameters of Ordinance No. 1101 G / M MS. Considering the results, it was concluded that public hospitals in this city partially meet the parameters established by this ordinance. Consequently, regarding the admissions to medical specialties, there are many opportunities for hospital managers, starting with expertise in professionalized public administration ingrained in the process of continuous improvement, which there is a need for changes in the hospital administration system, due the complexity of the organization. Finally, it is crucial that the interrelationship of interdisciplinary knowledge riddled in the pursuit of knowledge of the whole hospital organization, and also the parts, due to the plurality of different backgrounds and professional services. In short, there are opportunities in health management through preventive actions, not late or expensive, with precise diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment, in other words, a change to be conquered.

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Parish nursing, a specialty nursing practice which includes the spiritual component of integration of faith and health, has been growing rapidly over the last decade. Standards of Parish Nursing Practice developed in 1998 are consistent with the nursing process and include the spiritual dimension.