O modelo neoliberal e suas repercussões para a saúde do trabalhador de enfermagem

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Francisco Gleidson de Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11343
• topic: Occupational health; Occupational Health Nursing; Working Conditions; Neoliberalism; Globalization; Saúde do trabalhador; Enfermagem do Trabalho; Condições de trabalho; Neoliberalismo; Globalização; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The object of this study are the effects of the neoliberal model on health of nursing workers who work in hospitals. The objectives were: (I) identifying the characteristics of the productive neoliberal model in hospital and of nursing; (II) analysing the implications of neoliberalism in the health-disease process of nursing workers; and (III) proposing recommendations to the organization of work for minimization of the effects of the neoliberal model in the health of these workers. The research, of a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory character, was developed in a university hospital located in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The subjects are nursing staff, including 14 nurses and 20 nursing technicians. The instrument for data collection is characterized in semi-structured interviews. The project was approved by the ethics committee of the institution where the study was developed, under the protocol n. 365.716, in accordance with resolution 466/12. The technique used for the treatment of the collected data is the Content Analysis, which did emerge four categories. I) The settings of the organization and the hospital work process in neoliberal context in which they discuss the characteristics of work organization and process of nursing work on the impact of the neoliberal model in the form of management. Also prepares an analysis of the effects of this model, both in forecasting and provision of resources, human and material, as the precariousness of work contracts and their effects on the quality and quantity of nursing productivity. Still discuss the experimental procedure of nursing on the changing world of work imposed by the influence of neoliberalism in the hospital environment. II) The neoliberal model in the hospital environment: policies and interpersonal implications on the collective nursing, in which we discuss (i) the hierarchical and power relationships woven in this context, and (ii) the use and consequences of health technologies and demand for capacity buiding and training of professionals. III) The impacts of the neoliberal model in the health and illness of workers, who reported that, due to the configuration of work organization, there are many negative repercussions for the health-disease process of workers, such as stress, tachycardia, systemic hypertension, drowsiness, sweating, physical and mental exhaustion, depression, physical fatigue, headache, abdominal pain and irritability. IV) The recommendations for improvement of working environment under the professionals optics, in which (i) is discussed the proposals for improving the working conditions and the working process of nursing professionals and (ii) if recommends suggestions for minimizing the impacts caused by numerous forms of precariousness present in this laboral context, so, looking for the increment of the quality of life and health of workers. It is concluded that were several repercussions from neoliberalism for the process and organization of hospital work, as well as for the health of the work.