A dimensão da ação nas representações sociais da tecnologia no cuidado de enfermagem

Abstract

Objetiva-se identificar os modos de agir dos enfermeiros diante do cuidado do cliente portador de aparatos tecnológicos, a partir de suas representações sociais sobre a tecnologia. O referencial teórico foi o da teoria das representações sociais. Pesquisa qualitativa, com realização de entrevistas, observação sistemática e análise de conteúdo temática. Sujeitos: onze enfermeiros novatos e treze veteranos. Os resultados mostraram a existência de duas linhas condutoras da ação do enfermeiro junto ao cliente que se utiliza dos aparatos tecnológicos: a do cuidado tecnológico, no qual existe uma ação que articula o saber tecnológico e os saberes inerentes ao cuidado de enfermagem; e a da ação tecnológica, em que o profissional age orientado somente tendo em vista a máquina. Concluiu-se que a tecnologia pode estar orientando a formação de determinados estilos de cuidar na enfermagem.

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