Objective:
To identify the perception of intensive care nurses about the work on the scene of Intensive Care and discuss motivating factors of intensive care nurses stay in their work in Intensive Care.
Methods:
This research of qualitative and descriptive character, its object is the perception of the intensive care nurses about the work in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The research was developed in a private Intensive Care Unit from Rio de Janeiro with ten nurses. The technique of data collection was the semi-structured interview, which took place from June to August 2008. We used content analysis to process the data.
Results:
The results showed that intensive nurse has affinity with technologies and likes direct patient care. It was found that there are aspects that result in pleasure and pain in that work, which reveals a dialectical perception of this productive activity.
Conclusion:
It was concluded that this work is predominantly pleasure factor for nurses due to the status that the sector occupies in the hospital environment.
Occupational Health; Work; Nursing; Intensive Care