Gênero e práticas profissionais em um corredor hospitalar de alta complexidade em Maceió/AL

Abstract

This thesis presents the results of an ethnographic study conducted in a hospital corridor of high complexity, emphasizing the perceptions of health professionals in this context. It accepts the prospect of Health Sociology and Anthropology of Health to analyze and interpret the field taking into account its dynamics. The locus of the research was the General Hospital of the State of Alagoas, Maceió located in the capital. The overall goal of the research was to understand through the discourses of nurses and nursing assistants about their perceptions of professional practices and relations of hierarchy that is waged daily in the workplace. The study subjects were women working in a hospital corridor on the first floor of the hospital, known as green area. The authors conducted an analysis of the distribution of occupations between the sexes in the labor market and the Brazilian state of Alagoas, in the health field, highlighting points of inequality and social prestige in some professions, such as nursing, Medicine and Nursing Assistant. Analysis of Brazilian health policy took from the review of health manuals with special interest how the organization has given the networks of high complexity care in hospitals emergency. Given the multiple social relations that are waged in a hospital emergency emphasized other interactions that are presented through the statements of nursing assistants, involving new subjects: medical and general service providers. From the analysis of issues such negotiations (exchange on duty), the insulation, the representation of the coat. The survey points for maintaining a standard of the health traditional hierarchical relationship, where the role of the physician is still central to the growth of new categories in the art, as is the case of the nursing staff. The discourses of nursing aides pointed to a claim of professional recognition against the persistence of gender inequalities in relation to the occupation of jobs in health, manifest in the wage gap between men and women. Overall, the perceptions of informants revealed their perceptions of the social space where they exercised their crafts and how they experienced their daily work practices.