Model Maternity with exclusive care by nurses: social representations

Abstract

Aim: Determine, based on the perception of the users, the type of model of attention of a maternity hospital whose care is exclusively performed by nurses. Method: Research of qualitative and descriptive approach, based on Moscovici's theory of social representations, whose scenario was a maternity hospital. The social actors were 34 users assisted during the perinatal phase. Results: The data were coded from the information collected from the interviewees, extracting the categories: education, culture, humanism, trinomial, gender and administration, as integrative elements. Discussion: From a global perspective, new perspectives of attention can be offered for both theory and practice, thus creating public health policies. Conclusion: the users perceive the model that pays attention to natural childbirth as care based on education and interculturality, which enables the humanized assistance of gender and personalized by nurses for the trinomial.