VIVENCIA DE PRAZER E SOFRIMENTO NA EQUIPE TÉCNICA EM ENFERMAGEM DO CENTRO DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA.

Objective: to know the experience of pleasure and suffering in the nursing team of the intensive care unit. Method: qualitative research with participant and systematic observation and interviews with nursing technicians from the ICU of a hospital in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. 26 nursing technicians with a history of medical certificates were interviewed between July 2016 and July 2017. Content analysis for and dialectic hermeneutics was used to treat the results. Results: the experience of pleasure was verified by working with serious patients, relating the profession with acts of heroism. However, the experience of physical suffering was identified by using the body as a work tool, and the psychic suffering translated into routines loaded with excessive charges, and fear of losing the job leading to the practice of presenteism. Conclusion: it is concluded that the nursing technicians of the intensive care center experience pleasure from feelings of heroism in the profession, and work-related suffering due to excessive collections, permanent vigilance, problems with nursing management, absenteeism and feelings of exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]