TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Violence at work in emergency care units: nurses' experiences
JO  - Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
A1  - Oliveira, Camila de Souza
A1  - Martins, Júlia Trevisan
A1  - Galdino, Maria José Quina
A1  - Perfeito, Renata Ribeiro
SP  - e3323
EP  - e3323
VL  - 28
IS  - 
N2  - OBJECTIVES: to understand the perception of nurses in emergency care units about the violence experienced at work.     METHOD: qualitative study conducted through 21 individual interviews between November and December 2018 in two emergency care units in a city in Paraná. Symbolic Interactionism was adopted as the theoretical framework and the Thematic Content Analysis technique was used to evaluate the data.     RESULTS: from the thematic category experiencing psychological violence in the nurses' daily work, it was evidenced that it was related to threats against their lives, cursing, humiliation, embarrassment, attempt to defame them, as well as pressure from subordinates. In the category experiencing physical violence in the nurses' daily work, it was found that it was imposed through pushing, pulling hair, throwing objects, the presence of firearms and knives and, even, witnessing murder.     CONCLUSION: nurses suffered acts of violence by external and internal people, from the emergency care units themselves. Managers, nurses and society need to look reflexively and critically at the violence that happens and implement actions to avoid them, thus providing a safe working environment for all involved and educate society in order to make the reduction of violence a priority in public policies.<p />  <p>Language: pt</p>
LA  - pt
SN  - 0104-1169
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1518-8345.3856.3323
ID  - ref1
ER  -