A promoção do cuidado materno ao neonato prematuro: a perspectiva da educação problematizadora em saúde

Abstract

This study discusses health education inspired in the problem-based education of Freire, with a view to nursing staffs’ promoting emancipatory care by mothers for their premature babies. It focuses first on care by mothers in a neonatal unit, followed by problem-based education in health, and nurses’ promotion of maternal care in the neonatal unit, all based on the principles of dialog and respect for others. Health education inspired in Freire’s problem-based education should form part of the praxis of nursing teams, and especially of nurses. In this way, the premature baby’s mother may be enabled to participate in care for her child, and in decisions on therapeutic conduct towards the child, thus redefining her place in the neonatal unit.