Meaning of the obstetric care from the everyday-perspective of nursing students

Abstract

Introduction: The education process implies interactions among its actors which involve communication, desires, interests, motivations, expectations, and interpretations. An everyday-perspective implies admitting a complex reality with particular meanings because, human actions bear personal sense and meaning; and thus, understanding the social world implies a comprehension of its actors from the particular point of view. This analysis is based on Lefebvre’s everyday-perspective theory, which states that people have to learn to insight into their own space in order to satisfy their own needs and desires.

Objective: To analyze the meaning of obstetric care from the learning everyday-perspective of nursing students.

Method: Qualitative-descriptive study. Data were obtained through 8 in-depth interviews to students in their 7th semester of the Nursing and Obstetrics Baccalaureate program. The analysis allowed addressing significant concepts and identifiers in order to generate diverse categories. The validation criteria of the results were credibility, trustfulness, and capacity of confirmation and transference.

Results: The first category analysis is shown: 1) Meaning of obstetric care; which included two sub-categories: a) Participation in the miracle of life; and b) Responsibility with the family and the community towards the mother-fetus well-being.

Discussion and conclusions: Students assign diverse meaning to the obstetric care in relation to the professional responsibility in the mother-fetus well-being. Learning about obstetric care gives students security and pride to collaborate in receiving a new life.