Social representations about being a nurse of nursing students’. A qualitative study
Author:Aneilde Maria Ribeiro de Brito*,
* University of José do Rosário Vellano - UNIFENAS BH, Minas Gerais, Brazil;
Advisor and co-advisor: Maria José Menezes Brito**,
Flávia Carvalho Gazzinelli**
**Federal
University of Minas Gerais,
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Brito AMR, Brito MJM, Gazzinelli FC. Social representations about being a nurse of
nursing students’. A qualitative study [dissertation]. |
Abstract: The
purpose of this study was to analyze the structures about being a nurse of
nursing students’ social representations of five private Superior Education Institutions
of Belo Horizonte created in the period between 2003
and 2004. It was adopted as a theoric methodological
referential the Social Representation Theories proposed by Moscovici
and by the Theory of the Central Nucleus elaborated by Jean-Claude Abric, in the Social Psychology perspective. Data were
obtained by the use of two questionnaires. The first wanted to know the
socio-demographic profile of these students, while the second, based on the
free evocation technique, wanted to learn the social representation due to the
induction term being a nurse. 430 students constituted the sample, distributed
between the 1st and 6th periods of the nursing courses of
the mentioned institutions, what consisted of 45,6% of
the total population. The profile description of these students were analyzed
by simple attendance, and the structures obtained by free evocations were
processed by the software Ensemble de Programmes Permettant des Evocations (EVOC) and analyzed
by the four house board technique created by Pierre Vergès.
There was a major of young, female, single, and coming from public schools
students. A considerable number of these students practice some kind of
remunerated activity and almost half of the ones who worked, were working in
the nursing area. The building of the structures starting from the students’
evocations leads us to possible central nucleus toward the elements caring
and responsibility which were found strongly connected by elements
that translate affectionate values and attitudes, as for the integrality of the
rendered assistance, anchored in the historical, cultural and formatives
contingencies of the studied individuals. Besides that, the evocations management,
professionalism, work, realization, attention
and respect, were found, providing them a peripheral
role. In face of these image verify that the students’
perceptions related to being a nurse has been modified through time, even
though it has been done slowly and gradually. Through this perspective it’s
necessary to review concepts, update values and make choices to a
critical-reflective professionals formation, socially committed with group and
individual works in the health area.
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Fult text dissertation at the website - http://www.enf.ufmg.br/mestrado/dissertacoes/AneildeMRBrito.pdf
Address for correspondence: Aneilde Maria Ribeiro de Brito
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