%0 Journal Article %T La p¨¦rdida y el abandono en gestantes desplazadas-Bogot¨¢ %A BERNAL ROLD¨¢N %A MAR¨ªA CARMEN %A MU£¿OZ DE RODR¨ªGUEZ %A LUCY %A RUIZ DE C¨¢RDENAS %A CARMEN HELENA %J Avances en Enfermer¨ªa %D 2007 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X this research concentrates on the displaced population of our country, specifically pregnant displaced women, and along the research line of prenatal maternal care from the nursing faculty of the national university, i.e. from the "enfermer¨ªa transcultural de la facultad de enfermer¨ªa, of the universidad nacional de colombia". we followed leininger¡¯s which sees the human being as a subject immerse in a network of social relations and in the midst of a specific context, where such aspects permeate into behavior, i.e. that culture in which the subject believes and lives is part of the care practices. we used the ethnic nursing method proposed by leininger (1985), with the intent of exploring the meaning of care for the pregnant displaced women and her unborn child, from the ¨¦mic (native perspective), in bogot¨¢ (sub municipalities of suba and ciudad bol¨ªvar). the participants were displaced people from the provinces of tolima, arauca, cundinamarca, caquet¨¢, bol¨ªvar, guain¨ªa and cauca. their ages varied from 14 to 34 years, and the time of displacement was between two months and a year. data was gathered via individual and group interviews (twelve participants) and via observation, and we applied spradley¡¯s (1980) ethnographic analysis: domains (categories of meaning that include other minor categories) with the systematic relations, taxonomy (set of categories), component analysis (the search for associated attributes with cultural symbols) and issues (of the highest abstraction level). we obtained the issue of resilience of hope in the midst of the difficulty of being displaced and pregnant with the sub components of: the loss and abandonment as well as the way forward. %K pregnant women-ethnology %K prenatal care %K displaced persons %K transcultural nursing. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-45002007000200003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en