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Análise fatorial de correspondência das representações sociais sobre o trabalho noturno da enfermeira

2013; Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem; Volume: 66; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0034-71672013000100003

1984-0446

Kátia Conceição Guimarães Veiga, Josicélia Dumêt Fernandes, Mirian Santos Paiva,

Health, Nursing, Elderly Care

The study aimed to apprehend the Social Representations of nurses on nocturnal work. It was based on the Theory of Social Representations with qualitative and quantitative approaches. The free evocations of 25 nurses in a public hospital in Salvador-Bahia were collected, that underwent the Factorial Analysis of Correspondence (FAC). The FAC revealed on the opposition game demonstrated, in Factor 1, opposition between shifts service and, in Factor 2, age x length of service. Seized on the semantic universe of nurses the nocturnal work is a Responsibility Work, Hard Work, Initiative Work and Financial Need. The nurses refer to the nocturnal work through representations that give normative character, prescribing attitudes and behaviors socially constructed and accepted as from the category itself, emphasizing the historical development of the profession. Those results indicate the need for strategies that contribute to the development of policies for managing people, considering the specificity, subjectivity and complexity of nocturnal work.