Young nurses' perceptions about their employment, working and health conditions.

Objective: to interpret young nursing professionals' perceptions about the relationship between working, employment and health conditions.

Method: a qualitative study with an interpretive approach regarding the work-related experiences of 15 young nurses, who took part in the research through voluntary snowball sampling. The data from the interviews and the focus group were analyzed to reach an approximation to the realities inherent to the nurses' work life.