Nursing knowledge patterns: nurses’ image and role in society perceived by students - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

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Nursing knowledge patterns: nurses’ image and role in society perceived by students

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 06-01-2020;73(4):e20180959

DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0959

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ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to understand high school students’ perception about the nurse’s image and role in society, from nursing knowledge patterns.

Methods:

phenomenographic qualitative study, developed between October 2017 and January 2018, in a public university in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, with eight Interdisciplinary Higher Education Program (Programa de Formação Interdisciplinar Superior) students. The findings were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed by the phenomenography framework, supported by rereading nursing knowledge patterns.

Results:

two categories emerged: Perception of nurses’ image, which contemplates their positive and negative characteristics, attributes and place where they operate; and Nurses’ role in society, in which their work is compared with physicians’.

Final Considerations:

despite their essential role in care, subordination to medical knowledge and lack of knowledge of nurses’ functions still reflect their image.

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