Quality of life at work: perceptions of the nursing team in the nosocomial organization. A phenomenological study
Vera Nilda Neumann. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas
Gerais, Brazil
Maria Édila Abreu Freitas. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas
Gerais, Brazil
Neumann VN, Freitas MÉA. Quality of
life at work: perceptions of the nursing team in the nosocomial
organization. A phenomenological study [dissertation].
Belo Horizonte:
Federal University
of Minas Gerais;
2007.
Abstract: This study aimed at understanding the meaning of the
quality of life at work under the optics of the nursing team in the hospital
everyday work. This is a quality research, based on the referential of
phenomenology. The individuals were 15 professionals of the nursing team who
work at a nosocomial organization located in the city
of Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais.
The information have been collected in June, 2006,
through open interview, respecting the ethical aspects. The guiding issues were
the following: “To you, what is Quality of Life at Work?”; “Describe situations
in which you have experienced the Quality of Life at Work in your work
environment”. For the comprehensive analysis of the data, it were
followed the methodological moments cited by Martins, which included: the
description, the reduction, the understanding and phenomenological
interpretation. Upon extraction and transformation of the meaning units we have
proceeded to the convergence of meaning, emerging three categories: “Quality of
life and work conditions”, which is split into three sub-categories: “We also
are human beings”, Quality of life at work and in the experienced reality”,
“Quality of life at work and the dreamed of reality”; “Acknowledgement: a power
that moves the work” and “Being in the world of work with the other”. We
understand that the Quality of Life at Work, for the individuals in this study,
is to have the opportunity of being heard by the administrators and other
professionals of the health team in the nosocomial
organization, being allowed to express ideals and aspirations with regard to
the issues that involve the everyday life at work. We propose the creation of
supporting groups in the nosocomial organizations,
follow up with the psychologist for the nursing team, better physical
structures for the work, creating of environments appropriate for the spiritual
and social contemplations that enable the leisure and the physical activities,
as the gymnastics rooms. We have noticed the lack of policies that work the
subject of Quality of Life at Work in the nosocomial
organization and we suggest that its contemplation occurs via the realization
of workshops that involve other professionals of the health team and also the
administrators. We have also noticed the need for investments in pedagogic
practices that incorporate the subject of Quality of Life at Work to the
courses dedicated to the formation of workers that compose the nursing team.
Main bibliography
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percepção. Tradução de Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura. São Paulo: Martins
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proposta para os profissionais da saúde. Petrópolis: Vozes; 2005.
Fult text dissertation at
the website http://www.enf.ufmg.br/mestrado/dissertacoes/Vera%20Nilda%20Neumman.pdf
.
Address for correspondence: Rua Dr. Benjamim Moss,
211/301. Bairro Cidade Nova Belo Horizonte – Minas
Gerais. CEP: 31170-260
Received Sep
14th, 2007
Accepted: Sep 16th , 2007