title: [Changing in process that involves rest scales of nursing assistant].
abstract: Describe the implantation of a new process of management of the nursing assistant rest scale of a hospitalization unit of a universitarian hospital. It is 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.
authors.affiliation: Unidade de Internação 3o Sul do Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. KKeretzky@hcpa.ufrgs.br
authors.forename: Kátia Bica
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Keretzky
authors.forename: Adriano Silveira
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Vargas
authors.forename: Márcia Elaine Costa
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: do Nascimento
authors.forename: Isabel Cristina
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Echer
authors.forename: Maria Henriqueta Luce
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Kruse
mesh_terms: D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012146:Rest