Arthur and Sonia Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Nurs Inq. 2022 Jul;29(3):e12471. doi: 10.1111/nin.12471. Epub 2021 Nov 2.
This study uses a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore media reporting on the role of nurses as being consistently positioned 'heroes' during COVID-19. In so doing, it highlights multiple intersecting discourses at play, with the caring discourse acting as a central one in negatively impacting nurses' ability to advocate for safe working conditions during a public health emergency. Drawing on media reports during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada in the spring of 2020 and on historical information from SARS, this study seeks to establish caring as a discourse and examine if the caring discourse impedes nurses' ability to protect themselves from harm. The results of this analysis explicate how public media discourses that position nurses as caring, sacrificial and heroic may have impacted their ability to maintain their personal safety as a result of the expectations put upon the nursing profession.
本研究采用福柯的话语分析方法，探讨了媒体对护士在 COVID-19 期间始终被定位为“英雄”这一角色的报道。通过这样做，它强调了多种相互交织的话语在起作用，关怀话语是其中一个核心话语，对护士在公共卫生紧急情况下争取安全工作条件的能力产生负面影响。本研究利用了 2020 年春季加拿大安大略省 COVID-19 爆发期间的媒体报道和 SARS 的历史信息，旨在将关怀确立为一种话语，并探讨关怀话语是否阻碍了护士保护自己免受伤害的能力。该分析的结果阐明了将护士定位为关怀、牺牲和英雄的公众媒体话语如何可能影响他们维护个人安全的能力，因为这种期望被置于护理行业之上。
