Configuration of power relations in physicians and nurses' professional practices

• Published in: Revista brasileira de enfermagem Vol. 73 Suppl 1; no. suppl 1; pp. e20180629 - 8
• Main Authors: Mattar E Silva, Tauana Wazir, Velloso, Isabela Silva Câncio, Araújo, Meiriele Tavares, Fernandes, Aline da Rocha Kallás
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese; English
• Published: Brazil Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 2020
• Subjects: conocimientos, actitudes y práctica en salud; Data collection; hospitales; Hospitals; Intensive care; Knowledge; Nurses; Physicians; poder (psicología); Power; Professional ethics; Professional relationships; Professionals; práctica profesional; relaciones médico-enfermero
• ISSN: 0034-7167; 1984-0446
• DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0629

to analyze the configuration of power relations constituted in and by the knowledge and daily practices of physicians and nurses in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). qualitative study in which data were collected through interviews with physicians and nurses from an ICU of a hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. A semi-structured script was used. Data were analyzed through discourse analysis in a Foucaultian perspective. three categories were developed - Professional Identity: self-recognition in the profession; Discipline: individualizing attitudes or collective need?; and Circularity of knowledge and power in the constitution of daily practices. Final considerations: the identity, discipline and circulation of power are connected in a continuous movement of subjectivation of the subject, which, in turn, uses discourse as a persuasion strategy to modify the position taken over in different situations thereby causing the circulation of power.