Nursing disciplinary resources: a historical and foucauldian study

摘要

Abstract Objective: To analyze disciplinary resources in nursing based on the life histories of militant nurses. Methods: Historical research, using a qualitative approach, that was conducted with nurses who militate for professional reasons. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, organized using NVivo 10 software, and analyzed based on dialectical hermeneutics. Results: The following disciplinary resources were identified: religiosity, gender, surveillance, coercion, and punishment strategies. Conclusion: These resources constitute a panoptic structure, and are used for domination and maintenance of the subaltern role of nurses, beginning in the educational process and moving into the labor market. Finally, this study indicates the need to review nursing education, as well as pedagogical practices, in order to favor professional formation and actions that are effectively critical, reflexive, and emancipatory.