Condições e relações de trabalho da equipe de enfermagem na perspectiva da satisfação profissional

Abstract

Labor is a manual and intellectual human activity that helps people to have a differentiated position in society. People seek life quality, personal and job satisfaction through labor. Current descriptive, relational, transversal and quantitative analysis investigates professional (dis)satisfaction in the wake of hospital labor conditions and relationships of a nursing team. Research was developed in three hospitals (philanthropic, government and private) in the northwestern region of the state of Paraná, Brazil. Two hundered and twelve professionals answered the questionnaire: Research on Labor Conditions and Relationships, prepared by the Brazilian Health Ministry. Data were collected between February and June 2013 with nurses from the Surgery Center, Intensive Care Unit and First-Aid Clinic and who were selected according to established inclusion criteria. Data were tabulated on Microsoft Office Excel® and analyzed by SAS®. Absolute and relative frequencies were obtained in univariate analysis, whereas Fischer´s Exact test, Corrected Yates´s Chi-square test and Pearson´s Test were employed in inferential analysis at 95% confidence level and 5% significance level. Results showed that national and international databases (MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, Global Health Library and PubMed) retrieved only 16 articles that related professional satisfaction with job conditions and relationships. Field research showed that some variables had a statistical relationship (p<0.05) with unsatisfaction such as gender, formation time, job sector, work shift, number and type of labor commitment. In the case of variables related to work and satisfaction conditions, the items with statistical significance were team size, safety for job execution, accommodations and furniture. The items that represented statistical relationship included task distribution, stimulus by the hospital, valorization of job meted out by the immediate manager, motivation to continue working. It may be concluded that nursing team considered job conditions and relationships as inadequate although most were satisfied with the job.