CAPACITY ASSESSMENT FOR THE WORK OF NURSING PROFESSIONALS IN A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Work Ability Index; Nurses; Hospital.
The ability to work includes well-being in the performance of work activities and is related to the physical, emotional and mental demands arising from the work. Nurses, in the performance of hospital activities, are exposed to the impairment of their work capacity due to the complexity and volume of activities developed in an unhealthy environment in both the material and subjective sense. In this sense, this study focuses on the health of the worker, in particular on the health of the nursing team of the hospital network and has as objective to evaluate the Capacity for Work of nurses of a university hospital. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach involving 135 nurses from the Onofre Lopes University Hospital, carried out with the favorable opinion of the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte under number 1,845,951 / 16. Which governs Resolution No. 466/2012 of the National Health Council that regulates research with human beings. The data collection took place in November 2016, using as a data collection instrument a questionnaire containing two steps, one with general data of the interviewee and the other in the Brazilian version of the capacity index for work prepared by the Health Institute Occupational Therapy in Finland; Translated and adapted by researchers of the Faculty of Public Health of the University of São Carlos. The database was built in EXCEL format, version 2010. Statistica SPSS software, version 20.0 was used for descriptive tables and statistical test applications (Alpha Cronbach's test and qui-square test). It was observed that among the population of nurses who participated in the study, there were predominant adults (up to 40 years of age) (88.15%), female (81.48%), married (47.41%), Post graduation (93.33%). An average ICT score of 40.24 was found. Most of the nurses in this study had adequate ICT (81.48%), with a good or optimal classification, and only 18.52% had an inadequate ICT (low or moderate). Only one independent variable presented evidence of statistical difference that was satisfaction with the salary, other characteristics are shown tendentious as age, formation and time of bond. Because it has successfully achieved the objectives proposed by the study, it is believed that it may have contributed to the deepening of discussions on the Work Capability Index, issues related to worker health and, finally, the improvement of the use of the instrument.