[Burnout in nursing workers: relationship between nursing work and workers' health]

The study aims the understanding of the process health-illness, as it is experienced by nursing workers in the acting of its work, being bases in the social determination of that process. It evidences the particularities of the relationship between labor and health of a concrete reality. The adopted methodology permitted to establish the link between the valorization process, work process, loads and strain. This relationship of determination permit to show the unhealthy profile of those nursing workers. The sharp accidents, bones, muscles and joint diseases are characteristics damages of in this profile.