Abstract

FAJARDO TRASOBARES, Mª Esther  and  GERMAN BES, Concha. Influence of genre in the reconnaisance of the visible and invisible nursing cares. Index Enferm [online]. 2004, vol.13, n.46, pp.09-12. ISSN 1699-5988.

Justification: Eight out of ten nurses are women, so it seems advisable to think about how genre can influence on nursing and its own thought. Objects: Showing  recognition of nursing cares and of nurses themselves by institutions, professionals, families and friends. Metodologhy: Biographical method and more concretly the professional life story. Interviewed nurses must be have working over 25 years as nurses, experience working at outstandings politics posts, working at rural places and/or like liberals professionals, at  the public sector and at the private one. Main Results: Answers have been agrupated in three dimensions: doctors, institutions, families, friends and users. Friends and users when they want to recognise nurse they give her another cathegory. Nurses don't usually attend patients according to their own opinion but to medical opinions. Nurses who work at Intensive cares units feel themselves more recognised. Conclusion: Genre influence on the lack of recognition and on the asimmetrical power relationships could be due to the symbolic efficacity that  associates  part of nursing cares to feminine qualities.