Several years of professional nursing practices, while living in the poorest neighbourhoods in the outlying areas of Brazil's Amazon region, have led the author to develop a better understanding of marginalized populations. Providing care to people with leprosy and sex workers in riverside communities has taken place in conditions of uncertainty, insecurity, unpredictability and institutional violence. The question raised is how we can develop community health nursing practices in this context. A systematization of personal experiences based on popular education is used and analyzed as a way of learning by obtaining scientific knowledge through critical analysis of field practices. Ties of solidarity and belonging developed in informal, mutual-help action groups are promising avenues for research and the development of knowledge in health promotion, prevention and community care and a necessary contribution to national public health programmers.
BT - Revista latino-americana de enfermagem C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934576?dopt=Abstract CN - LAPERRIERE 2007 DA - 2007 Sep-Oct DO - 10.1590/s0104-11692007000700002 J2 - Rev Lat Am Enfermagem LA - eng N2 -Several years of professional nursing practices, while living in the poorest neighbourhoods in the outlying areas of Brazil's Amazon region, have led the author to develop a better understanding of marginalized populations. Providing care to people with leprosy and sex workers in riverside communities has taken place in conditions of uncertainty, insecurity, unpredictability and institutional violence. The question raised is how we can develop community health nursing practices in this context. A systematization of personal experiences based on popular education is used and analyzed as a way of learning by obtaining scientific knowledge through critical analysis of field practices. Ties of solidarity and belonging developed in informal, mutual-help action groups are promising avenues for research and the development of knowledge in health promotion, prevention and community care and a necessary contribution to national public health programmers.
PY - 2007 SP - 721 EP - 8 T2 - Revista latino-americana de enfermagem TI - Community health nursing practices in contexts of poverty, uncertainty and unpredictability: a systematization of personal experiences. VL - 15 Spec No SN - 0104-1169 ER -