Latin American clothesline of complaints: violence during educational training in nursing

Abstract

Introduction: Violence has a gender, ethnic and class burden that go through the bodies of those who practice nursing, generating a devaluation of their social and professional role.

Objective: To analyze the violence experienced by nursing students, who based on direct questions made a statement of these in virtual spaces.

Methodology: In March 2021, a virtual clothesline of complaints was designed under the principles of the virtual ethnography methodology and the decolonial feminist approach to analyze the interactions, social practices and the production of individual and collective meanings in relation to the stated violence, the gender burden and the corporeal coloniality that nurses experience during their training.

Results: The transcribed stories were subjected to content analysis through open, axial and selective coding. 3 categories emerged from this exercise: 1) patriarchal plot and pact; 2) nursing pedagogy of cruelty and 3) liberation of consciousness.

Conclusions: Nursing training occurs within contexts and relationships that point to professional dehumanization and depoliticization, which is necessary for the system to continue with the mercantilist and violent reproduction of health systems, as well as with the precariousness of nursing work.