Teaching nurse: quality of life and occupational stress
International Journal of Development Research
Teaching nurse: quality of life and occupational stress
Received 11th July, 2019; Received in revised form 28th August, 2019; Accepted 17th September, 2019; Published online 23rd October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Ana Carolina de Oliveira Silva Melo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective was to identify the elements the determine the quality of life of teaching nurse, as well as the ones associated with their occupational stress. It is an integrative review made in the database LILACS, SCIELO, BDENF, through the following descriptors “occupational stress”, “quality of life”, “teaching nurse”, “worker’s health”, made in Portuguese, published from March to April of 2017.13 articles were selected. The data lead to the following thematic categories: Occupational risk factors for the stress and defining elements for the quality of life in the professional context. It was highlighted that the main elements that diminish the diseased’ quality of life and contribute to the occurrence of stress are the double work shift and instability at the job inside private universities. Therefore, measures of prevention and reduction/elimination of occupational diseases must be implemented in the work environments, to promote the physical and mental health of the teachers effectively.