Abstract
ABSTRACTObjective:to analyze the work process of nursing professors. Method:descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study, developed with a focus on critical epidemiology, carried out at a School of Nursing in Chile. The research subjects consist of 17 nursing professors, with whom individual semi-structured interviews were carried out and nine participated in a focus group. The Ethics Committee approved this study. Results:88.2% were female, mean age of 42 years, 47% were married, 94% were Chilean, average length of service in the institution of 2.8 years, and 23.5% had a master’s degree. Regarding the work process, the students were the work object, the tools used were the knowledge and the experience as a nurse, and the work environment was considered good. Regarding the form of work organization, 76% have a 44-hour workweek, the wage was considered inadequate and the workload was higher than foreseen in the contract. The dialectic of the nursing work process is evidenced, demonstrating the contradiction between the low wages and labor overload and the narratives reporting a good work environment, personal fulfillment and transcendence that goes far beyond work. Conclusions:the work process allows describing the work components of the nursing professors, which are consistent with the results of the literature and show the dialectic of the nursing work process.
Highlights
Nursing is known as an activity since the beginning of humanity, because there have always been people in need of health care, and care is understood as the essence of this profession(1-2), which evolved from an occupation without formal preparation to a profession with training at higher education level
In the course of the nursing development process, world has been undergoing significant changes due to globalization, and today, a capitalist mode of production has caused many changes in the Work Process, which are observed in the nursing work
Individual interviews coordinated by the main researcher, who had a prior work relationship with the participants, were carried out with 17 nursing professors, through the application of a questionnaire on sociodemographic data and the guiding question “How is your work process as a nursing professor?”, which allowed the phenomenon to be understood by researchers
Summary
Nursing is known as an activity since the beginning of humanity, because there have always been people in need of health care, and care is understood as the essence of this profession(1-2), which evolved from an occupation without formal preparation to a profession with training at higher education level It can be developed in different areas, such as administration, medical care, education, research and political participation, requiring a set of specific skills and abilities for each of them(3). In the course of the nursing development process, world has been undergoing significant changes due to globalization, and today, a capitalist mode of production has caused many changes in the Work Process, which are observed in the nursing work This has meant changes in the profile of work and workers, which had to get adapted to the new technologies and the current economic model(4). In Latin America, Chilean society was impacted by globalization, reflected in the rapid growth of the population, changes in its structure, changes in the morbidity and mortality profile, increase in life expectancy and improvements in living and working conditions, such as food, wage, etc.(7)
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