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Professional nursing practice in critical units: assessment of work environment characteristics

OBJECTIVE: assess the autonomy, control over environment, and organizational support of nurses' work process and the relationships between physicians and nurses in critical care units. METHOD: cross-sectional study conducted with 162 nurses working in the intensive care units and emergency serv...

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Autores principales: Maurício, Luiz Felipe Sales, Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto, Campanharo, Cássia Regina Vancini, Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira, Belasco, Angélica Gonçalves Silva, Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag
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Publicado: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto / Universidade de São Paulo 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5363330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28301034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.1424.2854
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author Maurício, Luiz Felipe Sales
Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto
Campanharo, Cássia Regina Vancini
Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira
Belasco, Angélica Gonçalves Silva
Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag
author_facet Maurício, Luiz Felipe Sales
Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto
Campanharo, Cássia Regina Vancini
Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira
Belasco, Angélica Gonçalves Silva
Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag
author_sort Maurício, Luiz Felipe Sales
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description OBJECTIVE: assess the autonomy, control over environment, and organizational support of nurses' work process and the relationships between physicians and nurses in critical care units. METHOD: cross-sectional study conducted with 162 nurses working in the intensive care units and emergency service of a university hospital. The workers' satisfaction with their work environment was assessed using Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised, translated and adapted for the Brazilian culture. RESULTS: average age was 31.6 ± 3.9 years; 80.2% were women; 68.5% Caucasians and 71.6% worked in intensive care units. The nurses considered autonomy (2.38 ± 0.64) and their relationship with physicians (2.24 ± 0.62) to be characteristics of the work environment that favored professional practice. Control over environment (2.78 ± 0.62) and organizational support (2.51 ± 0.54), however, were considered to be unfavorable. No statistically significant differences were found between the units based on the scores obtained by the professionals on the Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised. CONCLUSION: autonomy, relationship between physicians and nurses, and organizational support were considered by the units to be characteristics that favored nurses' professional practices. On the other hand, control over environment and organizational support were considered unfavorable.
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spelling pubmed-53633302017-04-03 Professional nursing practice in critical units: assessment of work environment characteristics Maurício, Luiz Felipe Sales Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Campanharo, Cássia Regina Vancini Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira Belasco, Angélica Gonçalves Silva Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag Rev Lat Am Enfermagem Original Article OBJECTIVE: assess the autonomy, control over environment, and organizational support of nurses' work process and the relationships between physicians and nurses in critical care units. METHOD: cross-sectional study conducted with 162 nurses working in the intensive care units and emergency service of a university hospital. The workers' satisfaction with their work environment was assessed using Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised, translated and adapted for the Brazilian culture. RESULTS: average age was 31.6 ± 3.9 years; 80.2% were women; 68.5% Caucasians and 71.6% worked in intensive care units. The nurses considered autonomy (2.38 ± 0.64) and their relationship with physicians (2.24 ± 0.62) to be characteristics of the work environment that favored professional practice. Control over environment (2.78 ± 0.62) and organizational support (2.51 ± 0.54), however, were considered to be unfavorable. No statistically significant differences were found between the units based on the scores obtained by the professionals on the Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised. CONCLUSION: autonomy, relationship between physicians and nurses, and organizational support were considered by the units to be characteristics that favored nurses' professional practices. On the other hand, control over environment and organizational support were considered unfavorable. Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto / Universidade de São Paulo 2017-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5363330/ /pubmed/28301034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.1424.2854 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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Campanharo, Cássia Regina Vancini
Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira
Belasco, Angélica Gonçalves Silva
Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5363330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28301034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.1424.2854
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