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- Title
Perceptions and expectations of nurses concerning their professional activity.
- Authors
Ferreira Umpiérrez, Augusto Hernán; Barbosa Merighi, Miriam Aparecida; Muñoz, Luz Angélica
- Abstract
Objective: To learn how nurses perceive their professional activity and what are their expectations concerning the development of comprehensive care management. Methods: Qualitative research with Alfred Schütz's social phenomenology approach. The participants were nine female nurses who worked at public and private hospitals in Montevideo, Uruguay. Results: The nurses experience the gap between theory and practice, administrative overload, insecurity to take over care management and pursuit of formal and informal knowledge; they show desires and specific definitions, autonomy and professional identity, and professional valuation. Conclusion: The nurses perceive their professional activity as having a gap between theory and practice, administrative overload, insecurity to take over care management and pursuit of formal and informal knowledge, with expectations and desires of recovery and definitions of specific duties, autonomy and professional identity.
- Subjects
URUGUAY; AUTONOMY (Psychology); INTERVIEWING; JOB satisfaction; PHENOMENOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL achievement; NURSES; NURSES' attitudes; NURSING laws; NURSING practice; CONTINUING education of nurses; PROFESSIONS; EMPLOYEES' workload; OCCUPATIONAL roles; THEORY-practice relationship; HOSPITAL nursing staff
- Publication
Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0103-2100
- Publication type
Article