Spectral Communication in Nursing Care and the Risks of Virtuality

Abstract

The communication process in nursing care plays a key role in caring for people entrusted by society to professionals in this discipline. The crisis caused by the COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the serious situation of nurse-person communication because it has not only become complex but frankly spectral, in other words, communication is permeated by a strong bodily presence, paradoxically disembodied, which provides guidelines for discussing identity. (Sánchez Martínez). The spectral is not a static concept, because as technology advances, the frequency ranges used in communications increase (or decrease). Today human survival is threatened globally and the new communication strategies show that it is not a simple action since the identity and image of the nurse herself by incorporating virtuality as an alternative way of caring is also threatened, as well as the identity dependent on corporeality is diluted and threatened. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, face-to-face interpersonal communication is compromised, as well as the confidentiality of information, privacy and security. The public and the private have lost their limits crossed by virtuality, which is the technological phenomenon of digital as a new way of relating, both in time and space and provides experiences that are perhaps only possible in that dimension. However, there is also a distorted image of the subject, the setting of care and the role of health service providers. Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the public and the private have requested their limits crossed by the virtuality that is the technological phenomenon of digital as a way of relating, both in time and space, and provides experiences that are perhaps only possible in that dimension for which there is a distorted image of the subject, the setting of care and the role of health service providers.