Nursing Metaphors In Nursing

OVERVIEW

Objective: know the metaphors used in their educational-assistance interventions, primary care nurse and users identify what vision of the world is behind them and get to know the impact of these metaphors in the understanding of the phenomenon of health by users.

Method: chose by the interactionism symbolic, the framework theoretical of the metaphors basic of Pepper and the scheme analytical of Kilbourn.

Results: It notes that all interviews are saturated with metaphors. The nurse is dominated by mechanistic metaphors and formistas in all the studied categories, while users predominate the contextualistas and also mechanistic in the categories of cholesterol, stress and sugar.

Conclusions: metaphors permeate our daily life and

It is intended to check its educational use, its application and its role in the achievement of consensus communication between the nurse and the user as a requirement to make learning about the self-care place. This study emerges from the observed finding that, at times, the vision and the meaning of the metaphor used by professional didactic intentions not always match image and the sense of the user, causing them to be a source of confusion in the communication process and the understanding of their State of health. As a result, that could affect the application of treatments and care.

Metaphors are present in all areas of the health sector.

"We could say that it is (the metaphor) omnipresent e fills our thoughts, forming an integral part of it and the language and even that is irreplaceable since it helps us to better understand our world and ourselves" (Gutierrez,

The root metaphor of this vision is the simile, the comparison or the parallelism. Based on the intuitive recognition of similarity, consider that things were better understood if we fit them in a category or particular model. The basic operation is the classification and the cognitive process that goes from the specific to the general. The mechanism is a concept of the world whose root metaphor is the machine. The mechanistic operation is projected, mainly, as the operation of a mechanism consisting of parts, small and large, who have autonomy and meaning by themselves, without the need to be part of the whole to which they belong would be displayed. The mechanists world works as a great machine. The metaphor basic of the Organicism is the agency or the integration. It is a hypothesis, derived from the recognition that an organism is somehow more than the sum of its parts, whose primary operation is to integrate a structure. Its central metaphor is that all is an organism that lives and moves. He is interested in the sense of the process. Their primary source of motivation is in his interior. Subjects which form it - and configure it - are organized and self-regulating in a whole organized and active. And the Contextualist vision is based on the historical phenomenon - as a result of the era that we lived, never static, always in perpetual evolution. The phenomena