title: [A view about the interface hospital work and the environmental problems].
abstract: This study aimed at verifying how the ecologic reflexivity appears in the context of hospital work and its influence on the workers' performance. Research of qualitative approach, carried out with hospital workers of a public institution. The data were collected by means of a document analysis, field observation and individual and group interview. The data revealed that the worker has a distant relation with the environmental issue, and the regulation of the management of solid residues is the main topic to approach the issue. The development of effective actions of environmental preservation by the hospital worker, the adoption of this question is related to the adoption of this question as an institutional policy, thus this subject should be approached in the permanent education process of the workers, based on serious ethical consideration.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. silviaufsm@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Silviamar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Camponogara
authors.forename: Flavia Regina Souza
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.forename: Ana Lucia Cardoso
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kirchhof
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D010564:Personnel, Hospital