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Meaning of work from the perspective of hospital nurses
Meirieli Faza Franco1, Beatriz Francisco Farah1, Simone Coelho Amestoy2
1Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Objectives:
to know the meaning of the role of nurses in the hospital environment.
Methods:
this is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, whose setting was a university hospital in Minas Gerais with 50 nurses. Data were collected through interviews and analyzed according to content analysis, with the contribution of the Interface software from R pour les Analyzes Multidimensionalnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires.
Results:
three categories emerged: "Nurses' daily work in the hospital environment"; "Work motivation as an influential factor in the meaning of work"; "The two faces of the meaning of work: pleasure and suffering". Nurses attributed a positive meaning to their work.
Final Considerations:
three dimensions of the meaning of work were highlighted: individual, organizational and social. These influenced the professional, social, working and individual life of nurses.
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