Autonomia profissional em um desenho atômico: representações sociais de enfermeiros

Abstract

This work has the objective of describe and analyse the social representation of professional autonomy build by public health nurses. The methodology theoretical referencial was the Theory of Social Representation. Interviews were deeply made with 30 nurses of a city in state of Rio de Janeiro. The information was analysed by Alceste software. The results showed the professional autonomy drawing based on professional characteristics (responsibility is balance) and health programming as an important space to autonomy building. It can be concluded that autonomy process is under construction and that the existence of its representation.

Expansion of undergraduate courses in nursing: dilemmas and contradictions facing the labor market

“…This began from the understanding of the university as a place distanced from professional reality (7) . This creates anxiety, especially in the context in which this market is experiencing a reconfiguration, with rising unemployment, the increase in informality, and precariousness of working conditions (8) .…”

Limites e possibilidades do trabalho do enfermeiro na estratégia saúde da família: em busca da autonomia

“…In the context of the policy, it can be seen that the heterogeneity of scenarios complicates any linear evaluation, without taking into account the context of the practices and the reality of each healthcare service. For nursing, the scenario of low production of consultations can mean a retreat from the clinical in the work of the profession, necessary for the autonomy that is sought (10,(18)(19) . Other studies show that the precarious conditions of work of the FHS, the quotidian stress, the risk of illness through the work, and the conflictual relationships in the healthcare team accentuate the difficulties to be overcome (20)(21) .…”

“…It is the ability to make one's own history, to recreate possibilities, to conquer and be opportunities for life (9) . The hegemony of the technical dimension of the work is predominant in the profile of nurses in the representations that they make in their practice (10) . However, for the conquest of political autonomy, there is a need to deepen the understanding that it is not enough to advance in the technical dimension of scientific knowledge, disconnected from the ability to critically reflect and modify realities (7)(8)(9) .…”

Autonomia profissional e enfermagem: representações de profissionais de saúde

“…The need to closely investigate this theme stems from the current configuration of nursing work in the hospital setting, which has progressively gained new contours, demands, difficulties, and technologies, and often supports practices that are still centred on the biomedical model (1)(2)(3) . It is argued that nursing is characterised as an object of social representation linked to others since it generates a body of knowledge, skills, affectivities, attitudes, and practices related to nurses, their professional identity, their power of decision, and their freedom of action.…”