Health Education in the RNCCI

This book aims to explore the perceptions of patients and nurses regarding Health Education practices within the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care. Rehabilitation is seen as an opportunity for everything to go back to the way it was. Nurses, faced with this situation, are called upon to assist the patient throughout the process and to act as catalysts for motivation. The predominance of the pathogenic paradigm among patients was evident; we believe that this passive and submissive stance of most patients is the result of the Biomedical Model and the banking pedagogy impregnated in some institutions, professionals, citizens and the community in general. On the other hand, we found that nurses emphasise the biopsychosocial model as a guideline for their practices, attributing psychological and social aspects to the causes and evolution of illnesses, relating psychological aspects to adherence to the therapeutic regime. This book is aimed at health professionals in general, seeking to contribute to the definition of guidelines in the field of Health Education.