Cuidado de si de enfermeiras obstétricas: decisões sobre seus corpos e vidas

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Ana Renata Moura Rabelo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Obstétricas; Mulheres; Enfermagem; Enfermeiras; Saúde da Mulher; Biopolítica; Cuidado de si; Biopoder; Poder (Psicologia); Enfermeiras/psicologia; Enfermagem Obstétrica; Parto Humanizado; Parto Normal
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ANDO-AK9Q92

The reality of health services and practices of health professionals is marked by the predominance of disciplinary and normative actions of women's behavior. Nonetheless, in the context of women's care they remain resulting in manifestations of institutional violence, a highrate of cesareans, and other expendable interventions. However, there are movements that are effective in order to respect women's decisions and encourage natural and humanized childbirth, with a strong participation of obstetric nursing. It is assumed that this reality is associated with the care of the obstetric nurses themselves, in regard to decisions about their own body and life and consequently the power relations they establish with the other women they care for. Decisions about life and bodies are understood as expressions, materiality in the process of subject formation, including processes of objectification and subjectivation, and therefore the care of themselves. The purpose of this study was to analyze the self care of obstetrical nurses in the conformation of decisions about their bodies and life. It is a qualitative research, anchored in Post-Structuralist perspective and in the theoretical-methodological reference of Michel Foucault. The study participants were 14 obstetrical nurses of clear recognition, by the one who indicates them, in the care of other women. The sampling technique used was snowball, which resulted in the construction of a network of intertwining of life stories. The production of the data was based on interviews in deep, while data analysis was based on the method of Discourse Analysis. The results reveal that obstetrical nurses describe their decisions about body and life, which are subjectively influenced by context and discursive practices as a woman and obstetric nurse, and touch the body of the other woman in different ways. There are dominant but also emerging discourses that go through decisions about bodies and life. The narratives were marked by the difficulty of talking about oneself and the position in contemporary society, as a woman and nurse, permeated by relations of power, knowledge and games of truth. For theparticipants, the profession consists not only in the means of sustenance and work but in an important formation device as subjects. Furthermore, there seems to be scope for promoting new practices of care for women through the construction of networks and collectives, through the intersection of the histories and practices of obstetrical nurses. I emphasize that the constructed analytic is unfinished and consists of a cut, as well as recommends the referential of Foucault, through the constant distrust on any attempt of synthesis.