Abstract
Background
Nursing is a predominantly female profession that focuses on health care. The literature reports that this professional category experiences situations of interpersonal violence, urban/social violence, suffering in the face of social inequalities, in addition to precarious working conditions.
Objetive
To analyse the working conditions and the violence experienced by the medium level technician´s professional in nursering concerning the hospitalar area that do the care work.
Method
Research with qualitative approach, that utilized references of the care studies that consider the Sexual Division of Labour (SDL). Seven women and two men of the public hospital in the south region in Brazil were interviewed. A semi-structured itinerary was used for the oral testimony collections with subsidies of the oral history.
Results
Four workers were outsourced by the public service and five were public officer. In relation to the working conditions, it could be identified: outsourcing in the public service; decrease of the number of workers for health care; accidents at work (diseases and accidents with cutting materials); suffering and the emotions of the professionals in face of the living conditions of the population served by this public service; the urban and social violence that influences the health and the subjectivity of the professionals; and the violence and the relationships with the people served by them (conflicts, threats and aggressions).
Conclusion
It is necessary to intensify the theoretical and methodological characteristics in order to understand the working conditions, the violence and the emotions in the specificities of a predominantly female profession.
Keywords:
gender; work; nursing; nursing care