Abstract
The increasing demands for specialized respiratory care crashes with RsN that experience legislative-educational invisibility
Aim: To know how RsN experience their profession
Design: Hermeneutic phenomenological;SEPAR award(2015)
Results: N=12. Gender:33%male, 66%female. Age:49. Seniority:16
-WHO WE ARE(F1)
NE8A: “The RsN is a nurse that manages very well oxygen, inhaled therapy, all these things… Which is something very specific and not always known”
The RsN community experiences its profession as a path under construction. They are professionals with technical skills and specific knowledge of pulmonology, acquired in a self-taught manner and interactions with colleagues-scientific societies
-WHAT WE WANT
NE8B: “The RsN of the future will have their specialty”
Regulated specialty, definition of competences, recognition, visibility
E3: “I´d like it to be more empowered, to have the specialty, to truly teach what we do. We have a role, don´t we?”
Specialized training
E10: “It can be done a global review in 9months and it would be the basic learning of handling all the components of what would be a full respiratory service(…)In order to become a specialist in pneumology we have to go to 2-3years”
Standardized language
E5: “Within 10years all the people who leave the faculty will learn taxonomy and therefore within 10years this will change completely”
CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PRESENT-FUTURE(F2)
Conclusions: RsN live their profession as a field in continuous technical updating achieved by motivation and personal effort. They need a specialization to legitimize their field, legal framework to regulate their profession and formal academic training as a way to gain respect and recognition
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2019; 54: Suppl. 63, PA1261.
This is an ERS International Congress abstract. No full-text version is available. Further material to accompany this abstract may be available at www.ers-education.org (ERS member access only).
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