The complexity and contradictions of the right to refuse to do hazardous work in the surgical center of a hospital.

Background: The topic right to refuse to do hazardous work/to be exposed to serious and imminent risks is herein presented as the central and fundamental axis on issues associated with workers' health and safety.

Objective: Investigating how the topic right to refuse to do hazardous work/be exposed to serious and imminent risks may be used as condition and strategy to manage work in the Surgical Center of a hospital.

Methods: The research methodology focused on establishing dialogue among Activity-centered Ergonomics (Ergonomic Workplace Analysis -EWA), Ergology, Action-Research and Ethnography.

Risk management and the complexity of the right to refuse dangerous work in the context of hospital care: Preliminary issues.

Background: Risk management analysis at work makes it possible to find individual and collective experiences of recognition and hierarchization of risks in view of the specificities of labor situations and the complex and contradictory application of the right to refuse in health work, whose space and technique are still in a deep structural transformation.

Objective: To investigate how work organization impacts on the daily life of nursing care, in a general hospital surgical center, (un)enabling individual and collective risk management strategies in the context analyzed and how the right to refuse can be appropriate as a condition and strategy for work management.

Methods: Ergonomics (Work Ergonomic Analysis) was used to bring about the actual work activity and Ergology for epistemological deepening, whose research approach took place in a surgical center with four registered nurses.

[The opacity of nursing work and configurations of risk].

The article aims to reveal the invisibility of nursing work and the individual and collective strategies established to face the labor risks of attending psychiatric patients in situations of crisis. The theoretical-methodological approach combined ergonomic analysis with ergology contributions, examining in 2012 a team from an emergency unit of a Brazilian public psychiatric hospital composed of 17 nurses and two physicians (the director and medical coordinator of the unit). The results revealed that user care is strongly characterized by teamwork, especially in the confrontation of the knowledge of doctors and nurses, and is often mediated by other professionals such as social workers, administrative staff, and entrance guards.

Shoes influence in women posture.

One of the most prevalent aspects is women with complaints of discomfort in the lumbar region for the use of high heeled shoe. Authors described that there may be a relation between attitude and the present discomfort, often associated with muscular fatigue and increase the forces of reaction soil during the use of such footwear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate possible changes postural associated with the use of different types of shoes and barefoot.

Functional analysis of scapular position in assymptomatic professors.

Unlabelled: The impaired performance of the muscles of the scapular region may result in injuries, fatigue, weakness and pain. The main objective of this research was to analyze the scapular positioning during the abduction of the shoulder movement in the frontal, scapular and sagittal plans.

Method: This cross-sectional study comprised a convenience sample of 20 individuals.

Muscular activity in different locomotion plans with the use of various shoes types and barefoot.

Unlabelled: The objective of this study was to evaluate the electromyographic activity of the muscles of the leg and spine associated with different types of shoes and barefoot, in the various plans of locomotion, in the situations before and after fatigue.

Methods: Is a cross-sectional study, which was used a sample of convenience with 15 young women, aged between 18 and 35 years, sedentary. The examined muscles were tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius medialis and lateralis and erector spinae.

Taking care of you and care for others: an analysis of the activity of the work of technical and nursing assistants of a psychiatric institution for children and adolescents.

Our objective in this study, the analysis of potential fields of risk management in nursing work in psychiatric care to adolescents and children, while settings that go from the relationship between technical and organizational determinants of work activity and the skills of operators. It was established focus on the work process of the Technical and Nursing Assistants to seek for response elements in an attempt to understand the health-disease process experienced by these workers. It was used for analysis and data collection, through the method of Ergonomic Work Analysis (EWA), fifteen workers of nursing staff - T&NA, between effectives and contractors, and the strategies of action and regulation of these workers in relation to the interface that they deal with.