[Feelings of nursing professionals who work in emergency units].
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.
Salomé
Geraldo Magela
GM
Hospital Geral Vila Nova Cachoeirinha, São Paulo, SP.
Martins
Maria de Fátima Moraes Salles
Mde F
Espósito
Vitória Helena Cunha
VH
D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*