A relação do trabalho da enfermagem com as fake news durante a pandemia da covid-19

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a significant focus on research into fake news. whose importance is given by its insertion in the most varied social groups and referring to different subjects, being present especially in the public policy scenario. In this wake, the world has seen, in recent years, a flood of misinformation immersed in the context of public health, in a critical period of pandemic; many of these, even propagated by public managers and some professionals in the health field. Most studies focused on evaluating fake news, its creation and propagation processes, its effects and how to combat it, without, however, correlating its influence on the different professions affected by its harmful content. Filling this gap, the present study sought to identify the relationship between nursing work and fake news during the Covid-19 pandemic, not only in the hospital context, but extrapolating the nursing professional's work action to the social sphere. Through a careful analysis of many studies on related themes and concepts, the work presented here proposes a classification structure to provide insights into disinformation, answering the following questions: (i) did fake news stimulate any changes in legislation, manuals or organization of the Brazilian nursing work, during the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic period?; (ii) does the professional training process of these workers include combating the large circulation of fake news in current media? If so, how does this happen?; (iii) what consequences has the dissemination of fake news brought to nursing activity? The proposed method serves to emphasize the importance of combating disinformation for the development of a country, especially with regard to public health, and where future research would be better directed. For the nursing activity, the dissemination of fake news brought many challenges, but also some necessary consequences for improvement and, to a certain extent, evolution, not only in terms of work activity, but also in its training. This research concluded that future studies on the topic can investigate convergences and dissonances in relation to the strategies adopted in the health area to combat misinformation, including directly involving professionals working in the market. Finally, we question the forms of governance that move away from the truth and insist on playing the political game using fake news, post-truth and, even, strategies contrary to life, within the scope of necropolitics.