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Nursing: from the culture of subservience to the culture of solidarity

The aim of this study was to point out the current potential of the researched group concerning its competence in promoting innovative nursing care in the work environment. The theoretical basis adopted to analyze the data was the institutional analysis in the case explained by Baremblitt. In order to collect data we adopted the semi-structured interview applied to nine nursing workers and afterwards, we organized two focus groups for discussion to develop the data collected from the interviews. The criterion for inclusion of the individuals in the research was to have had themselves or their close relatives as inpatients in the same work place. As a result, it has been shown that the analyzed group of nursing workers is likely to undermine the culture of subservience present in nursing, therefore creating the culture of solidarity. It is highly capable of generating productive revolutionary-desiring attitudes, which are the prime conditions for the emergence of innovative nursing care and humane practice in the analyzed service.

Nursing; Culture; Right to health


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