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[Systemic social practice of nurses in luhmann's perspective]
Dirce Stein Backes1, Marli Stein Backes, Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann
1Departamento de Enfermagem, Centro Universitário São Francisco, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. backesdirce@ig.com.br
Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da U S P
|March 30, 2011
Summary
This study explores nursing as a social practice, proposing a new communication code focused on health rather than illness. It suggests nursing should be viewed as a distinct system to enhance its social relevance.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Sociology
- Systems Theory
Context:
- The current healthcare system primarily uses a health-disease code, with disease as the central communication.
- Nursing's social practice is often understood through this limited lens.
- A need exists to redefine nursing's communication and social role.
Purpose:
- To analyze the social practice of nursing from Niklas Luhmann's systems theory perspective.
- To explore the development of a unique communication code for nursing.
- To move beyond the traditional disease-centric healthcare communication model.
Summary:
- Grounded Theory methodology was employed, involving interviews with 35 participants from May to December 2007.
- Analysis revealed that conceptualizing nursing as a functionally differentiated system is key.
- This perspective necessitates a binary code prioritizing health as the core social communication.
Impact:
- Proposes a shift in nursing's self-perception and external communication.
- Advocates for recognizing human beings as complex social entities within nursing practice.
- Aims to enhance the social relevance and distinctiveness of the nursing profession.
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