Configuration of power relations in physicians and nurses’ professional practices

• Autor(a) principal: Mattar e Silva,Tauana Wazir
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Velloso,Isabela Silva Câncio, Araújo,Meiriele Tavares, Fernandes,Aline da Rocha Kallás
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672020001300152
• topic: Physician-Nurse Relations; Hospitals; Power (Psychology); Professional Practice; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the configuration of power relations constituted in and by the knowledge and daily practices of physicians and nurses in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: qualitative study in which data were collected through interviews with physicians and nurses from an ICU of a hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. A semi-structured script was used. Data were analyzed through discourse analysis in a Foucaultian perspective. Results: three categories were developed - Professional Identity: self-recognition in the profession; Discipline: individualizing attitudes or collective need?; and Circularity of knowledge and power in the constitution of daily practices. Final considerations: the identity, discipline and circulation of power are connected in a continuous movement of subjectivation of the subject, which, in turn, uses discourse as a persuasion strategy to modify the position taken over in different situations thereby causing the circulation of power.