Caring for yourself: feeling from the vision of nursing students

Abstract

Care is part of the nature and constitution of man. In its historical evolution it is undergoing transformations from the biological, emotional, and social aspects, conferring adaptive capacity to different stages of the life cycle and the eventualities that arise in its daily life. The objective investigated was; explore the meaning of self-care in nursing students, placing it in the phenomenological approach, describing the essential structures of the experience lived and perceived by the subjects. The collection was achieved through the in-depth interview. The three key informants participating in this research were nursing students from Universidad del Magdalena who, due to their experiences, relationship skills become an important source of information. As a result of analysis were obtained as categories: Perception of self-care and self-esteem. The conclusions when interpreting the studied phenomenon are: The student who is in formation is able to recognize that taking care of himself is a complex process, which involves the integrality as a whole, the responsibility with himself and with others, this will help him to understand the world of the other in this case the patient who will be under their responsibility in health institutions and communities.