A qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological research among respiratory nurses (Rsn) in Spain to understand the lived experience of their profession

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