COVİD-19 Afet Kahramanlarının Mesleki Görünürlüğü: Hemşire Örneğinden Analiz

Year 2024,

Mesiya Aydın , Özen Kulakaç , İlknur Aydın Avci

https://doi.org/10.17049/jnursology.1416123

Abstract

Amaç: Acil bir halk sağlığı sorununa yol açan COVİD-19 salgını, küresel çapta etkisi olan biyolojik bir felakettir. Bu çalışmada bu felakette medyada yer alan "süper kahraman" söylemine ilişkin hemşirelerin görüşlerinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır.

Yöntem: Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden fenomenolojik araştırma yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma Şubat – Nisan 2022 tarihleri arasında yoğun bakım kliniklerinde çalışan 23 hemşire ile gerçekleştirilmiştir.

Bulgular: Bu çalışmada, COVİD-19 salgını sırasında yoğun bakımda çalışan hemşirelerin medyadaki “süper kahraman” söylemine ilişkin görüşleri, kahramanlığın yükselişi (fark edilmek, daha yüksek verim için kahramanlık söylemi, zoraki kahraman) kahramanlığın görünmezliği (pandemi öncesi görünmezlik, pandemide görünmezlik) ve kahramanlığın ölümü (alkışlar, ben gerçeğim…oyuncak değilim) temaları altında incelenmiştir. Araştırmanın bulguları, hemşireliğin sağlık sistemine katkısının pandemi gibi kriz koşullarında biraz daha görünür olduğunu ortaya koymuştur.

Sonuç: Hemşireler “kahraman” ya da “süper kahraman” olarak ortaya çıktığında insan olarak kırılganlıklarının göz ardı edilebildiği belirtilmiştir. Bu “mesleki görünmezlik ve kahramanca görünürlük” bir paradoks olarak ortaya çıkmakta ve hemşirelik ya meslek olarak “görünmez” olmakta ya da kahraman olarak “maddi ve manevi destek” gereksinimleri göz ardı edilebilmektedir. Pandemi gibi kriz dönemlerinde hemşirelerin ağır çalışma koşullarından kaynaklanan hassasiyetleri dikkate alınmalı ve hemşireler fiziksel, maddi ve manevi olarak desteklenmelidir.

Keywords

Afet, COVİD 19, hemşire, kahraman, medya, kahramanlık olgusu

Ethical Statement

Evet

Supporting Institution

Hayır

Thanks

Araştırmada yer alarak katkı sağlayan hemşirelere teşekkür ederiz.

Occupational Visibility of COVID- 19 Disaster Heroes: Analysis from the Sample of Nurse

Abstract

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic, which led to an urgent public health problem, is a biological disaster that had a global impact. This study aimed to examine the views of the nurses on the "superhero" discourse in the media in this disaster.

Methods: The phenomenological research method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The research was carried out between February – April 2022 with 23 nurses working in intensive care clinics.

Results: In this study, the views of nurses who worked in the intensive care unit during the COVID-19 pandemic on the "superhero" discourse in the media were investigated under the themes of rise of heroism (being noticed, heroic discourse for higher efficiency, forced hero) invisibility of heroism (invisibility before the pandemic, invisibility during the pandemic) and death of heroism (the applause, I'm real… not a toy) . The findings of the study revealed that the contribution of nursing to the health system is a little more visible in crisis conditions such as pandemic.

Conclusion: The visibility that emerges as "heroism" or "superheroism", the vulnerability of nurses as human beings is ignored. This “professional invisibility and heroic visibility” emerges as a paradox, and nursing either becomes “invisible” as a profession or the needs of nurses for “material and moral support” as heroes can be ignored. During crisis periods such as pandemic, the vulnerability of nurses resulting from heavy working conditions should be taken into account and nurses should be supported physically, financially and morally.

Keywords

COVID-19, Disaster, Hero, Media, Nurse, Phenomenon of heroism

Ethical Statement

Yes

Supporting Institution

No

Thanks

We would like to thank the nurses who contributed by taking part in the research

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