A influência do habitus da enfermeira nas representações das mulheres acerca do parto: o surgimento de uma nova demanda social para o campo obstétrico

• Autor(a) principal: Prata, Juliana Amaral
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11258
• topic: Women s health; Humanized labor; Obstetric nursing; Humanização do parto; Enfermagem na saúde e higiene da mulher; Enfermeira e paciente; Saúde da mulher; Parto humanizado; Enfermagem obstétrica; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM::ENFERMAGEM OBSTETRICA

The object of this study is the women s mental representations produced by obstetric nurses in labor care. Aims: To discuss the mental representations of women assisted by nurses on labor and the obstetric practice; to discuss the habitus of the obstetric nurse perceived by the women, and to analyze the symbolic power relationships among the agents involved in the labor process. It is a qualitative study that used the thematic oral history and the word association test as data collection technique. As for the material analysis, we used Bardin's content analysis methodology; In order to provide theoretical support to the study, we adopted the following concepts: field, capitals, habitus, symbolic power, linguistic exchange, identity and mental representations developed by Pierre Bourdieu. The results found were grouped into two categories: The women s mental representations on labor and the obstetric practice: the constructed and deconstructed perceptions with the labor process and The obstetric nurse s habitus perceived by women during the labor process: the symbolic power of these agents in building a new social demand for the obstetric area . The first category presented the representations constructed from the socialization and the transformations of the women s mental representations as a result of the interaction with the nurse in the obstetric area. In this sense, the women s perceptions on labor and the obstetric practice confirmed the strong influence of the technocratic model on the testimonies. In addition, the nurse s humanized practice contributed to the construction of a new vision of the world among the women studied, which resulted in a crash in their mental representations. The second category unveiled the identity of the obstetric nurse as perceived by women through their professional attributes and the distinctive features that resulted in the association of stereotypes to these agents. It also revealed that the manifestation of symbolic power of the obstetric nurse was perceived under several forms: by the mobilization effect on women, by the association of the care technologies, and by the strengthening of women for labor. We concluded that the nurse, in the contact with women, has exercised a symbolic power by occupying a privileged position in the obstetric area. Such fact resulted, for the women, in transformations of their mental representations in relation to the labor process, which contributed to the construction of a new demand in the obstetric area. On the other hand, the recognition of the obstetric nurse by the users strengthened the position of her field practice.