The getting under way of the nursing in phenomenology: re visiting the academical production

Abstract

This article deals with the appropriation of the referencial of the Fenomenologia in the academic research of Nursing. The general study objective was analyse the use of the phenomenological reference in the nursing researches, and as specific objectives: characterize the nursing academic production maintained in the phenomenological approach; emphasize the theoretical references more used in the nursing academic production; correlate the nursing care areas by the light of the theoretical references. The study allowed us to verify the scientific production from 1987 to 2007, of the thesis bank of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Estudos de Nível Superior (" Coordination of Superior Level Studies Improvement"). Among the abstracts found through the use of the phenomenological reference in the Nursing researches, we identify the presence of three hundred and fifty and nine studies, including dissertations and thesis. The researches found were based on the Martin Heidegger´s, Alfred Schultz’s and Merleau-Ponty´s approach. In our analysis, we observed that were more evidenced the studies areas that include the nurses and / or / team, teaching body and student body and the woman health area. We concluded that using the phenomenological reference, the nurses – researches can tell the Man he can speak and visibility to the phenomenona experienced by him.