Presencia y escucha activa: intervenciones enfermeras prioritarias

Abstract

Abstract (Presence and active listening: priority Nursing Interventions) The protagonist of this story is Rafael, a maniacal depressive patient that I knew to the beginning of my professional activity like nurse in the Unit of Mental Health of a general hospital. The experience that I lived at that time, attending to Rafael in different phases of his disease and the impression that caused me with his final decision modified the perception that I had of the Infirmary. I thought about the importance of two nursing interventions that I had not valued before: the presence and the active listening like indispensable tools for the quality nursing care.