Foreign social service: Living of nursing internships in obstetric care

Abstract

The university social service as a formative academic activity strengthens skills, knowledge, attitudes and aptitudes developed in professional studies. As Gadamer points out, the “formative” concept means the culture that a person possesses as a result of their formation in the contents of the tradition of their environment. It refers both to the process by which culture is acquired and to personal heritage, that is, to the totality of their learning experiences. It is a spiritual attitude that comes from the knowledge and feeling of all spiritual and ethical life and that flows harmoniously in sensitivity and character1. Thus, the experience that represents the social service will leave in the graduates greater and better skills and knowledge that will determine the professional practice; It shows that rootedness achieved by the student in which over time there will be a reconciliation with self-knowledge (which observes and feels that it is acquiring new skills) in being another (by adapting to the phenomena that they are presented to him).
Social service is a time that implies positive and negative personal experiences that determine, in many cases, the professional evolution surrounded by successes, errors, doubts and also satisfactions, and if it is carried out in communities with high vulnerability in the attention of the care to the Maternal health can be more complex. Objective: to explore the experience of foreign social service interns in obstetric care. Method qualitative study, with a phenomenological approach, from the perspective of Husserl who distinguishes what we perceive and how we perceive, insists that attention is what allows us to capture the moments, characteristics and determinations of things. The information was collected through semi-structured interviews with bachelor’s degree interns in nursing and obstetrics who performed social service in states of the Mexican Republic such as Hidalgo and Tlaxcala, dedicating themselves to maternal health care. Intentional selection of participants until reaching theoretical saturation of the information. The processing of the information was done through thematic analysis. Partial results of the study Meaning of obstetric care in nursing interns. Category: Integral Nursing Care in Obstetric Care. Subcategories: a) Comprehensive care: marking the difference b) Confidence for the care given and c) A before and after. Conclusion. the social service potentializes the professional training initiated in the classrooms, propitiates personal and professional satisfaction when the work carried out in the integral care and the social contribution to maintain better maternal health conditions is recognized.