The leading role of Nursing in the vaccination against COVID-19 versus questionable irregularities a descriptive-exploratory study

Abstract

Objectives:To analyze news items that deal with irregularities involving Nursing professionals during the vaccination process against COVID-19 and to discuss technical, ethical and legal courses of action applied or suggested by the Federal and Regional Nursing Councils. Method: A documentary, qualitative and descriptive-exploratory research study, whose sources were news items published by the Nursing Councils. The data were processed in the IRAMUTEQ® software through descending hierarchical classification, which allowed performing the lexical data analysis. Results: A total of 19 news items constituted the textual corpus, with identification of 117 Text Segments, of which 95 were used (81.20%) and created two thematic blocks. The first deals with the vaccination moment and the second is on the ethical dilemmas of this process. Conclusion: The leading role of the Nursing team in immunization is evidenced. Mistrust and patrolling emerged, due to news items about unethical actions. There is a need to protect the professionals' image and ensure safe practices for the population.

Percepções de estudantes de enfermagem sobre o reconhecimento da profissão em tempos de pandemia: estudo descritivo-exploratório

“…In order to guarantee the anonymity of the participants, codes were created using the letter E for evaluation and a cardinal number denoting the sequence in which these interviews were carried out. It is also noteworthy that the study considered the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) and the Standard for Reporting Qualitative Research (SRQR) tools that support qualitative investigations and are recurrently used in investigations similar to ours (3,7) .…”

“…This fact was symbolically recognized by society and the media during the Covid-19 pandemic (6) . However, this recognition still proved contradictory because, despite the applause and honors received, these professionals were faced daily with inadequate working conditions causing illnesses and death of many professionals during the pandemic (7) . From the point of view of the challenges for the material recognition of nursing work, it appears, for example, that even after the approval and sanction of the Law that deals with the profession's minimum salary and the respective sources of funding, professionals still await the concreteness of these acts in the paychecks of the category (8) .…”