Nursing care management in the context of the high performance volleyball player

Abstract

Objective: to understand the relationship between the central phenomenon “care management in the context of thehigh performance volleyball player: living and surviving in the multidimensionality of the sporting environment” and thecategories which involved the perspective of management of health care of the athletes in the context of volleyball. Methods:it is a qualitative study, guided by the Theory Grounded in Data, made between February and September 2013, with 34participants in three sample groups. Results: four categories were found, meaning care, health and disease concerningthe high performance volleyball athlete; living and surviving on the limit between being a high performance athlete and ahuman being; waking up to the reality of high performance volleyball; unveiling possibilities and potentialities of health carein high performance volleyball. Conclusion: it is evident that there are concrete and tangible possibilities of insertion of themanagement of health care and nursing in the high performance volleyball.