[The relation between time and violence in the nursing work at emergency and urgency]

Believing that the organization form of work and the quantity of time given to the assistance work in the hospital can become a cause of violence that affects workers'and usuaries'life, this article analyzed the workers'perception about the time they have for their activities and the violence demonstration in the context of emergency and urgency work of a public hospital of Mato Grosso. It's a qualitative research done close to the members of the nursing staff, with data collected through participative observation and interviews. The data thematically analyzed revealed that the insufficient time makes part of the violence genesis at the nursing work and it is characterized as: classical, structural, repressive and alienation violence.