ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The present study aimed to describe socio-demographic profile of nursing students and to comprehend the meaning of quality of life under theirs perspective. Sixty-five students of eighth semester of 2007 were interviewed, by application of self reported questionnaire, with questions about socio demographic data and open question about quality of life. The population was mainly female, single, with age among 22 to 24 years old and with different perceptions about own quality of life, apprehended by experience of favorable and destructive factors during the learning years. The study highlighted the quality of life perception of nursing student's perspective. Key words: Key words: Key words: Key words: Key words: Quality of life; Students, nursing; Nursing. RESUMEN RESUMEN RESUMEN RESUMEN RESUMEN El objetivo del presente estudio fue describir el perfil sociodemográfico de los estudiantes de enfermería y comprender sus percepciones sobre propia calidad de vida. Sesenta y cinco estudiantes del octavo semestre de 2007 fueran entrevistados por el uso del cuestionario, con informaciones sobre datos sociodemográficos y preguntas abiertas sobre calidad de vida. La populación era principalmente femenina, solas, con edad entre 22 y 24 años y con diversas opiniones sobre propia calidad de vida, prendida por la experiencia factores favorables e destructibles durante los años de la aprendizaje. El estudio destacó la percepción de la calidad de vida de los estudiantes de la enfermería.

Objective: To refl ect on nursing supervision as a management tool for care comprehensiveness by nurses, considering its potential and limits in the current scenario. Method: A refl ective study based on discourse about nursing supervision, presenting theoretical and practical concepts and approaches. Results: Limits on the exercise of supervision are related to the organization of healthcare services based on the functional and clinical model of care, in addition to possible gaps in the nurse training process and work overload. Regarding the potential, researchers emphasize that supervision is a tool for coordinating care and management actions, which may favor care comprehensiveness, and stimulate positive attitudes toward cooperation and contribution within teams, co-responsibility, and educational development at work. Final considerations: Nursing supervision may help enhance care comprehensiveness by implying continuous refl ection on including the dynamics of the healthcare work process and user needs in care networks. Descriptors: Nursing Supervisory; Organization and Administration; Nursing; Nursing Team; Nursing Services. RESUMO Objetivo: refl etir a supervisão de enfermagem como instrumento gerencial do enfermeiro para integralidade do cuidado, considerando suas potencialidades e limitações no cenário atual. Método: estudo refl exivo baseado na formulação discursiva sobre a supervisão de enfermagem, apresentando conceitos e enfoques teóricos e/ou práticos. Resultados: limitações no exercício da supervisão estão relacionadas à organização dos serviços de saúde embasada no modelo funcional e clínico de atenção, assim como possíveis lacunas no processo de formação do enfermeiro e sobrecarga de trabalho. Quanto às potencialidades, destaca-se a supervisão como instrumento de articulação de ações assistenciais e gerenciais, que pode favorecer integralidade da atenção, estimular atitudes de cooperação e colaboração em equipe, além da corresponsabilização e promoção da educação no trabalho. Considerações fi nais: supervisão de enfermagem pode contribuir para fortalecimento da integralidade do cuidado, pressupondo refl exão contínua, para contemplar a dinamicidade do processo de trabalho em saúde e necessidades dos usuários nas redes de atenção. Descritores: Supervisão de Enfermagem; Organização e Administração; Enfermagem; Equipe de Enfermagem; Serviços de Enfermagem. RESUMENObjetivo: Refl exionar sobre supervisión de enfermería como instrumento gerencial del enfermero para integralidad del cuidando, considerando sus potencialidades y limitaciones del escenario actual. Método: Estudio refl exivo basado en formulación discursiva sobre supervisión de enfermería, presentando conceptos y enfoques teóricos y/o prácticos. Resultados: Las limitaciones del ejercicio supervisional están relacionadas a organización de servicios de salud fundamentada en modelo funcional y clínico de atención, en posibles carencias del proceso formativo del enfermero y sobrecarga laboral. Respecto a potencialidades, se destaca la...

Objective: to identify the work process, the psychic workloads and the strains generated in nursing workers. Method: the study was developed in five Brazilian university hospitals. The sample was composed by 62 nursing workers and the data collection was done by focal group technique, followed by the application of a collective inquire. The data were quantitatively described and systematized according to a thematic analysis. Results: the study population represented 35,37% of the hospital workforce in national setting. The workers mentioned are exposure to several kinds of psychic workload and link them to with others workloads, highlighting the strain processes resulting from this kind of workload, such stress, fatigue, complaints of gastritis and headaches. Conclusions: nursing workers are exposed to several workloads in the hospital environment, especially psychic workloads. This exposure starts strain processes that compromise the health and quality of life, signaling the necessity of interventions in this reality. Cargas psíquicas y procesos de desgaste en trabajadores de enfermería de hospitales universitarios brasileñosEl objetivo de este estudio fue identificar el proceso de trabajo, las cargas psíquicas y los desgastes generados en trabajadores de enfermería. Se trata de un estudio desarrollado en cinco hospitales universitarios brasileños. La muestra fue compuesta por 62 trabajadores de enfermería; la recolección fue realizada por medio de la técnica de grupo focal, seguida de la aplicación de encuesta colectiva. Los datos fueron descritos numéricamente y sistematizados según análisis temático. La población de estudio representó 35,37% de la fuerza de trabajo hospitalario en el escenario nacional. Los trabajadores refirieron exposición a diversos tipos de cargas psíquicas y las relacionaron con otras cargas de trabajo, destacando los desgastes provenientes de este tipo de carga, como estrés, fatiga, gastritis y cefalea. Los trabajadores de enfermería están expuestos a las diversas cargas de trabajo en el ambiente hospitalario, especialmente a las cargas psíquicas. Esta exposición desencadena procesos de desgaste que comprometen la salud y calidad de vida, señalando la necesidad de realizar intervenciones en esta realidad.

Fatigue, longer length of work in the same workplace and work category nursing technician were associated with decreased work ability, which emphasizes the need for investment in health and quality of work life.

Objective: To assess the strategies used by the Nursing team to minimize medication errors in emergency units. Method: Integrative literature review in the PubMed, BDenf, Cochrane and LILACS databases. Timeless research, without language limitation, performed by peers. Articles published in full that answered the guiding question were included in research. Results: Educational strategies (conducting campaigns, elaborating explanatory manuals, creating a multidisciplinary committee involved in the prevention and reduction of adverse drug events); organizational (meetings, Deviance positive, creation of protocols and changes in the work process) and new technologies (implementation of prescription by computerized system, introduction of the unit doses and of the bar code in the administration of medicines) were evidenced in the studies with the purpose of minimizing medication errors in an emergency unit. Conclusion: The strategies identified were effective in minimizing medication errors in emergency units.

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the workloads, strain processes and sickness absenteeism among nursing workers from a teaching hospital in the Brazilian Central-West. METHOD: a descriptive and cross-sectional study was developed with a quantitative approach, based on the theoretical framework of the social determination of the health-disease process. Data were collected between January and December 2009, based on records of complaints related to occupational exposure among nursing professionals, filed in the software Monitoring System of Nursing Workers' Health. For the sake of statistical analysis, relative and absolute frequencies of the variables and the risk coefficient were considered. RESULTS: 144 notifications of occupational exposure were registered across the analysis period, which represented 25% of the total nursing population at the hospital. The physiological and psychic workloads were the most representative, corresponding to 37% and 36%, respectively. These notifications culminated in 1567 days of absenteeism for disease treatment. CONCLUSIONS: the findings evidence the impact of occupational illnesses on the absenteeism of nursing workers, and can be used to demonstrate the importance of institutional investments in occupational health surveillance.

the results allow the reflection and redirection of actions for workers' health, as the processes of becoming ill are compounded by exposure to psychic burdens. These indicators, when monitored, can contribute to the transformation of the profile of morbidity of these workers.

the organizational values reflect the work organization model in the institution that devalues the workers' needs and requires greater capacity of resilience.