Abstract

RAMIREZ-PEREIRA, Mirliana; FERRADA MUNOZ, Mónica; OPAZO MORALES, Esmérita  and  ROJAS NUNEZ, Silvia. Reflections on interpretive autoethnography: a way to humanize Nursing care. Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica [online]. 2019, n.36, pp.130-138. ISSN 1409-4568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revenf.v0i36.32912.

A reflection essay oninterpretive autoethnography is presented, a methodology Little explored in the Spanish language and health. This methodology rescues the sensitivity of health care, framed in the self, culture and method. We use as a method the reflection about the experience lived by the authors in the provisión of nursing care, as well as the experience in autoethnography like a method, complemented with review and analysis of journal articles and books. It is concluded that the nurse can use this method if she knows and recognizes herself as a human being with multiple possibilities and potentialities, but also with imperfections and limitations and with the possibility of looking at the other, being aware that the patientis a human being as perfect and imperfect as her.

Keywords : qualitative-research; nursing; patient-centered-care.

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