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- Title
REFLEXIVITY, KNOWLEDGE AND ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS: PREMISES FOR RESPONSIBLE ACTION IN THE HOSPITAL WORK ENVIRONMENT.
- Authors
Camponogara, Silviamar; Ramos, Flávia Regina Sousa; Kirchhof, Ana Lucia Cardoso
- Abstract
The article aims to analyze the interface of reflexivity, knowledge and ecologic awareness in the context of hospital work, based on data collected in a qualitative case study carried out at a public hospital. Field observation data and interviews are discussed in the light of sociologic and philosophic references. Workers expressed the interface between knowledge and action, in which there is a cycle of lack of knowledge, automatism in the actions and lack of environmental awareness, posing limits to individual awareness and to responsibility towards environmental preservation. Increased debate and education, including the environmental issue, are needed in the context of hospital work. Although hospital work is reflexively affected by the environmental problem, that does not guarantee the reorientation of practices and responsible action towards the environment.
- Subjects
PUBLIC hospitals; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; MEDICAL care; REFLEXIVITY; EDUCATION; HOSPITALS
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2009, Vol 17, Issue 6, p1030
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692009000600016