Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Introduction: This study aimed to enhance the listening of nursing students of a private graduation institution in São Paulo, in order to understand perceptions and meanings about what is being a nurse, as well as the motivations for professional choice, considering both the individual and the professional (values and beliefs) identity characteristics of this group.Objectives: Map and discuss the sociodemographic profile of the students enrolled in the nursing program of Higher Private Education Institution, in São Paulo, study site, for the year 2014; Knowing and understanding the perceptions and meanings attributed to the identity of the nurse from the experiences of nursing students and analyzing the identified motivations and reasons related to the choice for the Nursing course.Method: This is a study of socio-historical, qualitative and exploratory nature, based on the method of thematic oral history.Fifteen nursing students from the first and second halves were interviewed, after the researcher inviting them and the free and spontaneous manifestation occuring for participation, from the interested parties.It was used the technique of semi-structured interview, making use of guiding questions.Ethical recommendations for conducting scientific research were observed.We opted for the Discourse Analysis of José Luiz Fiorin as theoretical basis.Results and discussion: We developed four categories and 19 subcategories that emerged from the talks, namely: Category 1 -Extending the understanding of being a nurse (Identity for himself).Subcategories: It is an important professional who takes care, cares and saves lives; being a nurse means donation and dedication; It is the professional who takes care holistically; It is the professional who has great responsibility; It is the professional who has power.Category 2 -Facing the challenges of professional choice (Evidences of Identity for the other).Subcategories: Nurse as a missionary of care; Employability; Professional who works excessively; Nurse to represent the woman of easy virtue; Professional unrecognized; Professional underpaid.Category 3 -Building the socialization process in vocational choice context.Subcategories: Experience of having experienced a situation of health need in the family; Being a professional in nursing active or not; Having had contact with nursing professionals.Category 4 -Designing the professional future.Subcategories: Acceptance, respect, appreciation, recognition of the nursing profession; Commitment, interaction and care; Be financially stable; Realization of a dream at present designed for the future; Working in a specific area of nursing related to personal needs at the present time; Changing in behavior.Conclusion: This research allowed (re)build the history from the own words of those who lived and who participated in a certain period, by their references and also their imagination, enabling the interpretation of the present moment.Thus, in the constant struggle for recognition and construction of a professional identity, nurses continuously search for an image that could match their expectations and give them rights, autonomy and respect.
Author: Thais Araujo da Silva
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2288914959