Construction of professional identity in nursing students: qualitative research from the historical-cultural perspective.
Rogério Silva LimaMarta Angélica Iossi SilvaLuciane Sá de AndradeFernanda Dos Santos Nogueira de GóesMaria Aparecida MelloMarlene Fagundes Carvalho GonçalvesPublished in: Revista latino-americana de enfermagem (2020)
the construction of the students' professional identity is limited to the material conditions of existence, translating appropriation to the intrapsychic scope of elements that occur, first, in the inter-psychological space of interactions. Nursing professors can become a paradoxical mirror, with one face to be imitated and the other, which materializes meanings of a model not to be followed. This construction is also influenced by the conditions of professional practice and university education.