ILLNESS DUE TO PROFESSIONAL EXERCISE IN NURSING:

A LITERATURA REVIEW

Abstract

ABSTRACT
This research, through the search, analysis and description of scientific works - a standard for
literature review studies - systematically discusses illness resulting from professional practice
in nursing, a class of utmost importance in health services. In this study, we proposed a survey
of information about the work environment of these professionals, a place marked by
competitiveness, monotony, lack of infrastructure, a lack of human and material resources, in
addition to other obstacles that affect the quality of the work environment. . In a
complementary way, the main damages generated by this location were described, with
emphasis on physical risks - Repetitive Strain Injuries, Work-Related Musculoskeletal
Diseases, Systemic Arterial Hypertension - and psychosocial risks - depression, anxiety
attacks, social and family withdrawal and stress. In addition to this analysis, actions to prevent
these damages were defined, such as greater turnover of nursing professionals in the care
sectors, greater financial incentives, psychological support, mapping of physical risks, control
of working hours, among other actions. In the hospital and emergency environment, there was
greater emphasis on illness and absence from work, with the administrative sector being the
place least likely to develop these damages. In relation to the construction of this research, the
qualitative method was adopted, consisting of a search in the Google Scholar platform
database, with a selection of course completion works (TCC), monographs, dissertations and
current postgraduate research, the from 2012, on the topic. With this scientific production
methodology, we sought to analyze several existing productions and describe illness due to
nursing work.