Qualidade de vida dos profissionais de enfermagem com excessiva jornada de trabalho: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Quality of Life is conceived as a process of realizing human needs, with the establishment of basic levels such as food, access to water, education, housing, work, education and health, which provide comfort, well-being, fulfillment individual and subjective for each individual. OBJECTIVES: To analyze the scientific evidence related to the quality of life of nursing professionals with excessive work hours. METHODS: An integrative review of the literature was carried out between November and December 2018, using the PICo strategy, where it was attributed to the P: nursing team, to I: quality of life, to Co: working day in electronic databases where 51 articles were found: Web of Science (14) and SCOPUS (28), BDENF / BVS (05), LILACS / BVS (04). The extraction of information facilitated the construction of two thematic categories: quality of life of nursing professionals; implications of working hours on quality of life. RESULTS: After being submitted to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, there were 7 articles for analysis, a more frequent methodological approach regarding the articles evaluated was the descriptive cross - sectional study with 5 publications. The largest number of publications included the year 2010 with 02 publications. It was also possible to observe predominance of South America, especially Brazil with 05 publications and Peru with 01 publication. DISCUSSION: Excessive work hours are directly related to changes in the quality of life of nursing professionals, and the physical, psychic and biological denominators are more affected. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The execution of extended days is justified through studies due to poor salary conditions, and it is necessary to extend working hours to maintain their subsistence. However, these studies have shown that quality of life is related to the fulfillment of basic needs such as health, housing, family and social life, leisure, work and decent remuneration, being affected by the increase in work hours.