Resilience as a construct in nursing practice: reflective concerns
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2015v18i4p101-115Keywords:
Public Health Nursing, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease, Resilience Psychological.Abstract
This is a theoretical reflection on resilience as a concept to be considered in nursing care for people with a chronic condition. Resilience has been revealed as a capability that promotes the overcoming of adversities in living processes. In this study, multiple views of resilience are discussed in the light of specialized literature, presenting a relationship to the concept that is epistemologically intercrossed with the psychoanalytic, developmental, behavioral, clinical and socio-educational contemporary approaches. The study highlights the need to understand the characteristics of the implications with the internal and external dimensions of the human living-sicken process; the personal elements of being resilient, which can be incorporated as another possibility in the practice of health care by professionals, mainly in Nursing. This reflection highlights and recommends the need to recognize the contribution of the resilience concept into the indispensable paradigm change in health sciences by disarticulating the current perspective focus in the disease and acquiring the potentialities of the person in its integrality and holism who are facing the normal adversities in the human living-sicken process such as chronic diseases, being the keyword, and by working with the capabilities and the protecting factors of persons experiencing a chronic condition.
Keywords: Public Health Nursing; Health Promotion; Chronic Disease; Resilience Psychological.