The Nursing work and the construction of a democratic society - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

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The Nursing work and the construction of a democratic society

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 01-01-2017;70(5):896-897

DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167.2017700501

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In Brazil, the Nursing work is performed by an expressive contingent of workers, which – according to the last survey by the Brazilian Nursing Association – comprised 1,856,683 professionals, mostly women, distributed into three professional categories: Nurses, Nursing Technicians and Nursing Assistants, who work in public and private health care networks. With salaries lower than other professionals of the sector, they have extensive workdays and shifts (including night shifts), experience authoritarian relationships and constantly have to deal with pain, loss and death of patients, transforming it into a hard work().

Aspects such as importance, necessity, stress, laboriousness, achievement, satisfaction, among others that are part of the nature of the work in itself, are also present in the Nursing practice. They are characteristics that arise from the relation between capital and work – relationship between people that hold knowing and doings and perform a specific work mediated by people that have the means for those to perform their production actions and activities.

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