QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AMONG NURSING PROFESSIONALS IN SERVICE TO COVID-19.

Objective: to investigate the Quality of Work Life among nursing professionals in a specific inpatient unit for COVID-19 care. Method: descriptive and cross-sectional study. Data were collected through the instrument Total Quality of Work Life-42, whose score ranges from 0 to 100, considering that the highest value represents the best quality of work life score; and a form for social and labor characterization of the participants. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyzes were applied. Results: the general score for Quality of Work Life was 59.9±7.9. The highest scores were for the Psychological/Behavioral (68.8) and Environmental/Organizational (62.2) spheres; and the lowest scores were for Economic/Political (52.5) and Biological/Physiological (55.7). All spheres had positive correlations when compared to work satisfaction and there was no significance when comparing the sample characteristics with the quality of work life levels. Conclusion: the nursing professionals working at the COVID-19 inpatient unit had a median Quality of Work Life; and work satisfaction was directly related to their evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]