title: [Feelings of nursing professionals who work in emergency units].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to know the meanings fo the work in an emergency unit for nursing professionals.
  
  
  METHODS
  qualitative research with phenomenological approach. Data collection was obtained by means of 14 interviews with nursing professionals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  coexisting feelings of nursing professionals are fatigue, exhaustion, anguish and revolt for the work overload and resources limitations face the situations that involve death risk.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  although stress faced by nursing professionals during the daily work, they keep the commitment in assisting with quality and humanization, existing a trend for emotional exhaustion, loss of heart and feelings of anguish, what reaffirms the importance of heath prevention in work environment.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Geral Vila Nova Cachoeirinha, São Paulo, SP.
authors.forename: Geraldo Magela
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Salomé
authors.forename: Maria de Fátima Moraes Salles
authors.initials: Mde F
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Vitória Helena Cunha
authors.initials: VH
authors.lastname: Espósito
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*