Describe the implantation of a new process of management of the nursing assistant rest scale of a hospitalization unit of a universitarian hospital. Its presented the reality before the proposal, when the rests were distributed along the week; the reasons that took to the proposition of the new method and the working of the new scale, with rests in weekends and holidays. Among the benefits already seen include: bigger number of professionals working during the days of bigger work flow; more time of leisure of the workers with their families; bigger personal integration and professional of the group; scales organized for a year, which allows the employee plan his vacation, rests and studies; and bigger satisfaction with the work, with the new scale being considered a professional conquest.
Personnel administration, hospital; Nursing staff, hospital; Job satisfaction; Shift work
