SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES IN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT: NURSES’S PERCEPTION

Abstract

Aim: to know nurses’ perceptions about the environmental sustainability within the hospital environment. Method: this is an exploratory-descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, performed in four hospitals of the 1st, 4th, 17th and 18th Regional Health Coordinations of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. It was developed between September 2013 and February 2014, with the participation of 26 nurses. Data analysis complied with the precepts of Discursive Textual Analysis. Results: the reports originating from the interviewees highlighted that nursing practices in hospital sustainability are exclusively shown under the obedience of hospital organizational structures, dependence on legislation and in the construction of organizational values. Final Considerations: the construction of sustainable practices is linked to the inheritance of the bureaucratic, normative and categorical administrative model in the decision-making process of the formation of sustainable beliefs and values.

Keywords

• desenvolvimento sustentável
• hospital geral
• enfermagem