Adriana do Prado Rodrigues Carneiro, Zenith Rosa Silvino, Sabrina da Costa Machado Duarte, Thiago Privado da Silva, Laura Johanson da Silva, Ítalo Rodolfo Silva
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Abstract
Objectives: to understand, from nurses' perspective, the intervening conditions related to the meanings of health economics and nursing work in hospital settings.
Methods: qualitative research, conducted in a university hospital, with 18 nurses, whose theoretical and methodological frameworks were, respectively, Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory.
Results: in the context of micropolitics, nurses understand the intervening conditions related to the connections between health economics and the work they perform. However, they also attribute meanings directed at macropolitics when they recognize health economics as a political element that is governed by decision-makers distant from nursing, but that directly affect the management of material and human resources in health.
Final considerations: nurses recognize themselves as a strategic workforce to drive health economics, in hospital settings, based on the positions they assume in these scenarios, mainly due to the nature of the work they perform in hospitals.
期刊介绍:
The Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem created in 1932, March 20 is the official publication of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazilian Nursing Association) has as purpose to disseminate the scientific production from different nursing interest areas of knowledge, including those which express the political project of the Association. The Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem is the oldest journal of the Brazilian nursing. Its first title was "Annaes de Enfermagem" from 1932 to 1941, being entitled Anais de Enfermagem" until 1955, when its title was changed to the current.