Condições de trabalho, fatores de risco e problemas de saúde percebidos pelo trabalhador de enfermagem hospitalar

Abstract

Descriptive quantitative research with 53 nursing workers at a Federal Hospital Unit in Rio de Janeiro. Its main aim: to analyze the nursing workers perception of their working conditions, occupational hazards and health problems, through specific objectives: (1) to describe the working conditions of the analyzed Unit; (2) to assess the factors related to the working conditions that may expose the workers to risks and to their sickening; (3) to check if the workers consider the working conditions adequate to their health. In order to suit the objectives, questionnaires were applied to the workers and to the management of the service. The assessment of the data was fulfilled from May to August 207. The data were analyzed using the operational system Microsoft Windows and the software Microsoft Excel, in a data bank, with absolute, relative and perceptual frequency presented in charts and graphics. It became evident that the nursing workers are mostly women, of young age (from 20 to 39 years old), working double or triple working shifts, depriving themselves from family life, and from having good health habits due to lack of time. They feel work is troublesome, that the working place exposes them to risk factors and inadequate conditions that result in health problems and high absenteeism index (35%). Measures to minimize and/or eliminate the existing risks and to improve the working conditions were suggested in order to contribute to the health of these nursing workers.