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0100/2017 - The interaction between doctors and nurses in the context of a hospital ward.
A interação entre médicos e enfermeiras em um contexto hospitalar.

Author:

• Leandro Augusto Pires Gonçalves - Gonçalves, Leandro Augusto Pires - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Medicina Social (IMS/UERJ) - <goncalves.lap@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6795-8374

Co-author(s):

• André Luis Oliveira Mendonça - Mendonça, André Luis Oliveira - UERJ, IMS - <alomendonca@gmail.com>
• Kenneth Rochel Camargo Jr. - Camargo Jr, K.R - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Medicina Social - <kencamargo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3606-5853

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

This article addresses a fundamental, albeit scarcely discussed, issue in health studie: the relationship between doctors and nurses. We rely on a ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews undertaken in a female ward of a public hospital to analyse certain aspects of such relationships, based on hermeneutics and science studies. The empiric observation showed that Doctors organized their practice and clinical decisions on certain abstractions and dialogued in a structured, highly specialized and restricted language. Nurses materialized medical decisions, guided by the prescriptions. They had no room to interfere in clinical decisions, being very busy with their tasks not dominating the clinical discourse, crucial for discussions about the decisions. In the context of this study, physicians and nurses maintained a distance established by the theory, technique and values shared by each professional group. Thus, we suggest that knowledge, practices and medical values and nurses were incommensurable with each other, and that this directly affected the health care actions performed in that setting.

Keywords:

NursingMedicineHealth WorkHospitalIncommensurability

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Gonçalves, Leandro Augusto Pires, Mendonça, André Luis Oliveira, Camargo Jr, K.R. The interaction between doctors and nurses in the context of a hospital ward.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Mar). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-interaction-between-doctors-and-nurses-in-the-context-of-a-hospital-ward/16146?id=16146



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