OC03 - Multiple employment: perceptions of nurses regarding the quality of nursing care

Theme: Accreditation and quality improvement.

To identify factors related to multiple employment that nurses consider as an influence to the care provided; analyze the perceptions of nurses regarding the influence that these factors have on quality of care provided.

The study is a qualitative study, with a sample of 17 nurses, seven currently working in multiple employments, five who have worked in multiple employments but currently do not, and five who have never worked in context.

The majority of nurses who have worked in multiple employment and those who have never worked in multiple employment consider that there are negative implications for the quality of care when a nurse is working in a multiple employments context. However, most of the nurses working in multiple employments do not consider it as the direct cause for the implications in the quality of care, because fatigue can have different precipitating factors, whether social, family, psychological or emotional.