Connections between research and health care assistance: Emerging challenges for science, innovation and technology in nursing

Abstract

Objective: to understand the meanings that permeate the connections between the production / research results and the nursing work process in the care context. Method: explanatory style research using a qualitative approach, with theoretical and methodological references: Theory of Complexity and grounded theory, respectively. The data were collected from 25 subjects, distributed in three sample groups: ten clinical nurses linked to a university hospital; six nurse researchers and nine undergraduate nursing students. The semi-structured interview was used as a data collection technique. The research was validated by ten reviewers from different regions of Brazil. Results: The following category is presented: Facing Emerging Nursing Challenges in the Age of Science, Innovation and Technology, based on the subcategories: Starting points for contextualized nursing: from scientific production to the utilization of research results; And Fragile connections between scientific production and nursing care practice. Conclusion: the systems of meanings that influence the connections between scientific research and nursing care practice are structured and strengthened by plural phenomena, among which are the negative inflections of the communication process, presence and recognition between who produces research and who can use it.