The Brazilian nursing workforce faced with the international trends: an analysis in the International Year of Nursing (original) (raw)

Nursing as a Profession in Brazil: Sociological Contributions

Journal of Nursing & Care, 2016

Aim: The objective was to analyze the content of Nursing Professional Practice Law and compare it to the content of papers addressing professional identity published in Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. Methods: Bibliographic and documental searches were conducted using qualitative analysis grounded on Eliot Freidson's Sociology of Professions. The corpus consisted of texts published between 1983 and 2012, and Brazilian Legal Documents. Results: The thematic category "Contradictions of the nursing profession" emerged. A weakness of the professional project was identified, which is based on the fragmentation of work. This reductionist approach legitimizes the maintenance of nursing divided into professional and non-professional workers, restricting the practice of nurses. Conclusion: The complexity of care requires social responsibility to construct a professional project that provides scientific, ethical, philosophical and political foundations to workers to support their practice.

Brazilian nurses’ sociodemographic changes in the first decade of the 21st century

Escola Anna Nery

Objective: analyze income and work conditions of nurses in Brazil in 2000 and 2010. Methods: based on demographic census samples, socioeconomic characteristics of nurses were described according to income and work hours. Statistic models estimated the chances (odds ratios) of nurses having lower income despite working more than 40 hours per week. Results: the nurse population in Brazil grew at a rate of 12.5% per year. In the two study periods, approximately 11.0% of nurses received the lowest incomes and worked more than 40 hours per week. The most pronounced chances of belonging to this group were observed for those residing in the interior the South and Southeast regions of Brazil. They were also more elevated for nurses whose color/race was black or brown (pardo) and who lived with their parents. Conclusion and implications for the practice: the expressive increase in nurses occurred within the context of reduced socioeconomic inequalities. Less favorable work conditions were mo...

Nursing in Brazil a critical-holistic perspective

World Pumps, 2011

Global and local insecurities influence the Brazilian health care system and the complexities of the healthcare workforce. Nursing in Brazil is shaped by socio-political and historical factors. This paper conceptualizes nursing as a social practice and uses ''Critical-Holistic Paradigm for an Interdependent World'' as a guide framework to analyze how nursing education and professional practice exist within the country's socio-economic and political reality while being constructed within the domains of science and technology.

Historical context of nursing professionalization in brazil: a journey into the past

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research , 2020

The objective of this study is to describe the historical context of nursing professionalization in Brazil. In the middle of all this process, nursing has been developing in Brazil since the beginning, facing several challenges, in an attempt to consolidate itself as a profession. It is an exploratory and descriptive study, that uses as instruments of theoretical foundation the bibliographical and documental research. The study makes a rescue on how nursing has been consolidating with the passing of centuries, registering the appearance of nursing in the country, pointing still as the professionalization of nursing happened in Brazil, as well as the main legislation referring to this context. When reflecting on the history of nursing and its development, it becomes possible to recognize the profession and the challenges faced, allowing problematize the past of nursing.

Brazilian Unified Health System and democracy: nursing in the context of crisis

Revista brasileira de enfermagem

to discuss, taking for reference the crisis in Brazil and its impact on public health policies, the insertion of Brazilian nursing in that context and its ways of practicing the profession, based on the study about the politicality of care. the reflection is divided into two topics, the first is about public policies, the Brazilian Unified Health System and the deconstruction of the right to health with neoliberal offensive; and the second is about the nursing political action in the fight for the right to health and for democracy. we emphasize that nursing must assume its sociopolitical role to contribute to the construction of a better and fairer Brazil, saying no to neoliberal reforms, as well as fighting for rights already acquired and for the resumption of the democratic stability in the country.

Nursing and the Health System in Brazil

Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1999

The purpose of this article is to describe nursing in the Brazilian health system and to analyze the characteristics of nursing personnel in Brazil. This description includes types of health institutions, services rendered, and the distribution of nursing personnel by professional categories in 1956, 1982, and 1995. Discussion of the challenges facing Brazilian nurses is presented using data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Federal Nursing Board (COFEn), Regional Nursing Board (COREn), and the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn). An increase in the number of outpatient units and in diagnostic and therapeutic examinations has led to an increased the demand for nurses. Public health nurses participate in planning, management, sanitary education, health promotion, and supervision of nursing care provided by nursing technicians, assistants, and other helpers.

Nursing professionals trained for the labor market in the state of Minas Gerais

Reme: Revista Mineira de Enfermagem, 2014

The present study aimed to analyze the profile of nursing professionals trained for the labor market. This was a quantitative and retrospective study on nursing workers who applied for the Main Provisory Registration (IPP) in the Regional Council of Nursing in the State of Minas Gerais, between 2005 and 2009. A total of 48,064 IPP requests were analyzed, being 40.42% requested by nurses and 65.36% by nursing technicians. The IPP requests increased 240% among nurses and 22% among nursing technicians. There is a prevalence of the female gender, aged under 30 years, and in stable marital unions. The availability of nursing workers for the labor market was concentrated in the State capital compared to the State's municipalities. Globalization and the competitive labor market impose new challenges facing the technological development and migration of workers requiring professional qualifications to guarantee substantial achievements in the Brazilian nursing

Labor flexibilization and deregulation for nursing workers in Brazil: the profae case

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2008

Baraldi S, Car MR. Labor flexibilization and deregulation for nursing workers in Brazil: the PROFAE case. Rev Latino-am Enfermagem 2008 março-abril; 16(2):205-11. This study analyzed the flexibilization process of labor relations in the PROFAE Professionalization Project of Nursing Workers (Projeto de Profissionalização dos Trabalhadores da Área de Enfermagem -PROFAE) in Brazil. This qualitative study used dialectical and historical materialism as the theoretical-methodological framework. Data were collected through directed interviews with open-ended questions, and answers were submitted to discourse analysis. The obtained results evidence the flexibilization and deregulation process of labor relations in the health area in Brazil, characterized by the following elements: payment by production; fragmented labor division; criteria for variable wage payment; qualified and versatile professionals; perceived professional freedom; reduced governability and power to make decisions; multiple jobs; activity planning as a substitute for planning models, and the massive systematic operationalization of actions. DESCRIPTORS: labor relations; nursing, supervisory; public health; international organizations FLEXIBILIZAÇÃO E DESREGULAMENTAÇÃO LABORAL DOS TRABALHADORES DA ÁREA DE ENFERMAGEM NO BRASIL: O CASO PROFAE Este estudo analisou o processo de flexibilização das relações de trabalho na implementação do Projeto de Profissionalização dos Trabalhadores da Área de Enfermagem (PROFAE), no Brasil. Trata-se de estudo qualitativo, tendo como marco teórico-metodológico o materialismo histórico e dialético. Foram realizadas entrevistas dirigidas, com questões abertas e submetidas ao procedimento de análise do discurso. Os resultados evidenciam o processo de flexibilização e de desregulamentação das relações de trabalho na área de saúde do Brasil, caracterizado pelos seguintes elementos: pagamento por produção, divisão fragmentada do trabalho, critérios de remuneração salarial variável, profissionais qualificados e polivalentes, sensação de liberdade profissional, reduzida governabilidade e poder decisório, múltiplos vínculos, programação de atividades substituindo modelos de planejamento e maciça operacionalização sistemática das ações. DESCRITORES: relações trabalhistas; supervisão de enfermagem; saúde pública; organismos internacionais