Absenteísmo-doença na enfermagem : caracterização das ocorrências em um hospital de ensino.

Abstract

Absenteeism is understood as the absence of the employee to work. In nursing, absenteeism is directly related to disruption of service, reflecting the quality of care. The research has the objective to characterize the absenteeism situations by nursing staff of the disease and the perceptions of workers concerning this situation. It is quantitative and qualitative studies of descriptive exploratory character, performed in a hospital in the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It was used as a data source medical certificate of nursing workers the years 2013 and 2014 and structured interviews. Participated in the interviews, the shift workers and nursing sector that had the highest absenteeism rate in the years 2013 and 2014, it had more than six months of work at the institution. As a result, the female had the highest absenteeism rate, the age range was 31-35 years and most of the employees with certificates had no children. In occupational data, the category with the highest absenteeism rate was the nursing technicians, the turn was the night and the vast majority of workers had more than 10 years of institution. The sectors with the highest absenteeism rates were the Surgical Center, followed by the Emergency Department. The main pathologies that caused the absences were for musculoskeletal diseases, respiratory and digestive tract. In interviews, workers attributed the workload, stress and staff dimensioning as influencers of absenteeism. This study was able to record the causes of absenteeism, which contributed to the knowledge, and the dimensions of the issue in question. Besides assisting the institution-researched data that can support implementations of preventive actions in order to reduce costs and improve the health of workers.