Observation of the occupational scenario of community health workers.

Community health workers are inserted into family health developing activities of disease prevention and health promotion. These professionals need to recognize their work and the importance of using personal protective equipment. Observation revealed that some community health workers did not wear uniforms, and that their outfit included tank tops, skirts, and open shoes.

Workplace violence among nursing professionals.

Introduction: The frequency of workplace violence has increased significantly across several countries, with short- and long-term effects on workers' health. Within the health care sector, nursing professionals are the most exposed to workplace violence, since they provide direct assistance to patients on a 24-hour basis.

Objectives: To identify the types of occupational violence experienced by nursing professionals.

Work weaknesses and potentials: perception of mobile emergency service nurses.

Objectives: to know nurses' perceptions about their work process in a Mobile Emergency Care Service.

Methods: qualitative study conducted with 12 nurses whose speeches were submitted to Content Analysis.

Results: there are weaknesses related to overload of activities, numerous functions, indirect supervision, risk situations, difficulties in relationship with hospitals, lack of vehicles and professionals, inappropriate places to provide care and lack of knowledge of the population about urgent and emergency care.

Profile of readjusted workersat a public hospital in Southern Brazil.

Objective: To establish the sociodemographic, occupational and clinical profile of labor readjusted workers at a public hospital.

Method: Cross-sectional study conducted with 40 labor readjusted workers at a university hospital in SouthernBrazil. Datacollection was performed by means of an instrument with questions for sociodemographic, occupational and clinical profile.

[Description of workloads and fatigue experienced among health workers in a teaching hospital].

This is an exploratory, descriptive and quantitative study, based on the following categories: work process, workloads and fatigue in a teaching hospital in Curitiba in the southern region of Brazil. The article characterizes the load and stress experienced in a university hospital, based on a previous study entitled "System for monitoring the health of nursing workers" (SIMOSTE). The results show that females were the most affected (85.

Using technological innovation as a tool to monitor nursing workers' health.

The objective of the present study is to describe the development of the "Monitoring System for Nursing Workers' Health" software, a technological innovation designed to identify the health hazards caused to nursing workers' and their determinants, i.e., strain and/or strength potentials, monitoring their health using indicators.