Effects of heroism discourse on the professional involvement of nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Flávio Adriano Borges
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Rézio, Larissa Almeida, Zerbetto, Sonia Regina, Silva, Carla Marins, Marcheti, Priscila Maria, Chaves, Suellen Cristina da Silva, Mendes , Dárcio Tadeu, Moreira, Wanderson Carneiro, Nóbrega, Maria do Perpétuo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/40127
• topic: Pandemia; COVID-19; Práctica Profesional; Enfermeros; Enfermería; Investigación Cualitativa; Pandemia; COVID-19; Professional Practice; Nurses; Nursing; Qualitative Research; Pandemia; COVID-19; Práctica Profesional; Enfermeros; Enfermería; Investigación Cualitativa

Objective: to analyze the effects of heroism discourse on the professional involvement of nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This is a qualitative study, carried out from April to June 2020, using the snowball method, with 598 nurses in Brazil, using Google Forms®. It was conducted based on the theoretical framework of Institutional Analysis, which seeks to understand and transform social reality in terms of ideological dimensions (way of thinking and representing the profession), libidinal (productions and rearrangements carried out with the profession through desire), and organizational (the material basis for the exercise of the profession). Results: in the ideological dimension, the discourse of heroism about nurses involves the social non-recognition of the profession and the figure of the hero, who do not see as such, as they work in poor working conditions and are at constant risk of death. In the libidinal, ambiguously, nurses identify with the heroism discourse when there is admiration from the population, social recognition, and satisfaction with work, even amidst feelings of distress, impotence, sadness, and fear. Finally, in the organizational dimension, the discourse is involved with better working conditions, wages, and reduced workload, necessary for providing care with quality and safety. Conclusion: the effects of the heroism discourse are implied in the three dimensions and refer to the socio-historical process of the constitution of the profession, associating nurses with the hero figure. Nurses vehemently question this position because the precarious working conditions they are exposed to are very real.