Quality of working life in the nursing staff: a review systematic in the current literatura

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze national and international publications on the State of the art of the quality of working life in nurses. He was a systematic review, EBSCO, PubMed and Scielo and Redalyc, databases to identify articles published between January 2009 and may 2014. The final sample consisted of 21 items, most of the studies were performed in Brazil and Colombia, the largest number of articles were published in the period 2009-2011. Selected publications addressed different aspects of the quality of working life as they were: perception or meaning of the quality of professional life, working conditions of nurses, associated psychosocial factors and impact of the quality of working life in the perception of the quality of care.