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Laura Elvira Piedrahita Sandoval1, Jorge Sotelo-Daza1, Liliana Cristina Morales Viana1
1Department of Nursing, Universidad del Valle, Cali 700000, Colombia.
Nursing autonomy is limited by healthcare hierarchies and power dynamics, impacting professional development and the accumulation of symbolic capital. Understanding professional habitus is key to addressing these constraints.
Area of Science:
- Sociology of professions
- Nursing studies
- Healthcare management
Background:
- Discrepancies exist between nursing academic training and professional practice.
- Nurses' professional habitus can impact their autonomy and alter acquired cultural capital.
- Healthcare settings present unique challenges to nursing autonomy.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify factors influencing nursing autonomy based on professional habitus.
- To explore the relationship between professional habitus and autonomy in nursing practice.
- To analyze the role of Bourdieu's theory of fields in understanding nursing autonomy.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative hermeneutic study using Bourdieu's theory of fields.
- Inclusion of registered nurses, nursing students, and university professors.
- Data collection via sociodemographic forms, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups.
Main Results:
- Clarification of the nurse's role (professional habitus) emerged as a central theme.
- Subthemes included strengthening nursing identity, optimizing education, and reinforcing credibility.
- Hierarchical structures and institutional constraints limited nurses' symbolic capital and autonomy.
Conclusions:
- Nurses' professional habitus is shaped by the healthcare social field's constraints.
- Subordination to biomedical discourse and limited recognition of nursing processes hinder autonomy.
- Constraints on symbolic and social capital accumulation impede nursing professional development.
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