Competência emocional e satisfação profissional dos enfermeiros

• Author(s): Gregório, Fernando António dos Santos
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/732
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Teses; Psicologia da saúde; Emoções; Enfermagem; Satisfação
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Advisor(s): Jesus, Saul Neves de
• Contributor(s): Sapientia

Description

Dissertação mest., Psicologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2008

What we feel is what ties us to life, the reason for being, the core of our existence. The subjective experience of emotions and feelings or simply the emotion, is seen as the basis of our personality, what we have of most intimate and what ties us to ourselves, to the others and to the world (Diogo, 2006). Caring consists of a relational process, in a “World of communication and release of human feelings” (Watson, 2002). The act of caring, is evolved in emotional significance. The one that cares is confronted on a daily basis with the experience of feeling and dealing with emotivity of his daily practice situations, in a world where emotions and feeling have been traditionally repressed. There have been several studies so far showing that nurses, due to the handling of pain, suffering, anguish, loss, stress and death, suffer devastating effects on their relational, rational and emotional habilities. The main hypothesis of our study points out to the existence of a strong correlation between emotional competence and job satisfaction amongst nurses, and this has lately been confirmed that the with r = 0,186 and p = 0,045. That is in our opinion due to socioeconomic conditioning factors such as: uncertainty due to the changes in the profession, career and laws ruling the institutions; the weaker autonomy that nurses have in the planning of their own tasks; the poor recognition of their work by other elements of the health team; the lack of temporal space enough for a reflection of their own practice; the insufficient number of nurse jobs in the departments; the weak ties to the employing health institutions; and the recent loss of privileges of socioeconomic nature and others; career changes; uncertainty and insecurity.