A percepção dos enfermeiros sobre a organização do trabalho no centro cirúrgico de um hospital universitário

Abstract

The study is focused on the nurse s perception on Labor Organization in the environment of a Surgical Center, as well as its repercussions on these professionals health-illness process. The objectives were: to identify the nurses perception on labor organization in a Surgical Center at Pedro Ernesto University Hospital, to analyse all repercussions on nurses health-illness process generated from labor organization in a Surgical Center. The study was based on Dejours psycodynamics concepts, that try to comprehend dialetic experiences related to suffering-pleasure that come from nurses activities, as well as strategies used by professionals in order to stop, mitigate or change all suffering that comes from their job. This is a qualitative, descriptive study, that used the historical dialetic materialism as method, which was developed from 2006 to 2007. The place for collecting data was Pedro Ernesto University Hospital and the subjects were eleven nurses that were acting at its Surgical Center. In order to produce this study, semi-structured interview and non-systematic observation were used as data collection techniques; all of the participants were free and clear when they filled in a term of agreement, assuring that Ruling 196/96 was fulfilled. All data were analysed through tables in order to characterize the subjects of the study, and for the statements it was used a content analysis that revealed three categories: nurses perception on labor in a Surgical Center, material and non-material work, work repercussions on nurses health-illness process. Results showed that nurses consider their job stressing, tiring and with higher repercussions on the subjective dimension than on physic dimension due to labor organization stablished in a Surgical Center. Subjects also characterized the work as a non-recognized one, capable of generating dialetic feelings, such as suffering and pleasure, satisfaction and unsatisfaction, repercuting directly on these professionals health-illness process through psychossomatic changes.