Reflexivity, knowledge and ecological awareness: premises for responsible action in the hospital work environment

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Silviamar Camponogara²  Flávia Regina Sousa Ramos¹  Ana Lucia Cardoso Kirchhof¹ 

[1],Universidade Federal de Santa Maria,Brazil

关键词: ethics;    environment;    environmental health;    qualitative research;    ética;    ambiente;    salud ambiental;    investigación cualitativa;    ética;    meio ambiente;    saúde ambiental;    pesquisa qualitativa;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692009000600016

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The article aims to analyze the interface of reflexivity, knowledge and ecologic awareness in the context of hospital work, based on data collected in a qualitative case study carried out at a public hospital. Field observation data and interviews are discussed in the light of sociologic and philosophic references. Workers expressed the interface between knowledge and action, in which there is a cycle of lack of knowledge, automatism in the actions and lack of environmental awareness, posing limits to individual awareness and to responsibility towards environmental preservation. Increased debate and education, including the environmental issue, are needed in the context of hospital work. Although hospital work is reflexively affected by the environmental problem, that does not guarantee the reorientation of practices and responsible action towards the environment.

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