Condições de trabalho e saúde dos trabalhadores enfermeiros da Estratégia Saúde da Família

Abstract

This study is a narrative review of the literature on working conditions and workers' health nurses of the Family Health Strategy. Formerly called the Family Health Program was created in 1994 with the goal of reorganizing the Primary Care and optimize the effectiveness of the Unified Health Teams Family Health have responsibilities that involve the production care population residing in territory previously defined, with reference to the community. Thus, the Primary Care professionals are faced with a variety of social situations, economic, biological and psychological territory and the surrounding community. As team members of family health nurses occupy role and develop a series of actions of individual and collective character with a view to improving quality of life and health of the community residing in its area of operation. They bond and establish accountability for the health of the population and deal in their routine work with situations of social vulnerability of families and experience feelings of anxiety, fatigue, impotence and frustration in situations for which their resolution capability is small or insufficient. These factors affect directly and indirectly the health of these professionals. This study back in their approach an understanding of the transformations of labor relations experienced by nurses to characterize work activities performed in the Family Health Program, identifying the risk factors related to the illness of these professionals. Factors such as extended working hours or accelerate the pace of production from overwork, dissatisfaction with low pay and high responsibility, triggering a series of facilities that enable the quake's health nurses in their work environment.