Representação social da qualidade de vida no trabalho dos profissionais de enfermagem de um hospital universitário

Abstract

The work, how an activity of interaction of man with the nature, be created as a man, such as asocial being. This relationship also produces health-disease. Relatively work in Health, nursingprofessionals are hospitalized uninterruptedly for integral care actions. Aspects such as work,professional turnover, insalubrity, impact on work and physical and mental work and,consequently, on Quality of Life. The study aimed to know and analyze the representation ofnursing workers in the Medical Clinic sector on Quality of Life at Work (QLW). It’s a methodof qualitative / quantitative methodology, which is a questionnaire for socioeconomiccharacterization and a semi-structured interview. Participated in the study 45 nursing patients ofdifferent categories: nurses, technicians and nursing assistants. The interviews showed the riskof losing the employment, although they were prevented from participating in the workprograms, though there are those who may be participants, who are both administrative andpolitical. We identified 14 categories that integrate the Social Representation of QLW, amongthem the labor adequacy; investment in equipment and staff; interpersonal interaction, amongothers. These categories are located as much as a QLW conception as to the actions andstrategies aimed at modifying and improving the context of the work and its reflections on aQLW of the researched ones. The study is based on the perspective of the concept of health andthe concept of QLW, in its historicity, as the social practices of the participants with the working environment. And that produces the investments proposed in the processes of integral care tothose tended by the hospital.