Ambulanssjuksköterskors upplevelser av sinarbetsmiljö i sitt dagliga arbete.
En kvalitativ intervjustudie
Abstract:Ambulance nurses have in their everyday work a varied work environment, the pace of work can quickly shift from being calm and structured to be a severe acute situation.Objective: The aim of the study was to describe how professional nurses in the ambulance operations experience their physical and mental work environment in daily practice.Method: A qualitative interview study with semi structured questions was used. The study group consisted of two women and three men, ages between 27?42 years. The study was carried out on an ambulance station in central Sweden. Based on collected data, a qualitativecontent analysis was performed that resulted in three categories.Results: The result showed that the ambulance nurses regarded that it was a lot of heavy lifting. To manage all heavy lifts, without damaging the own body the participants considered it important to be in good physical and mental shape in order to perform their daily work.Conclusion: Ambulance nurses show great adaptability, comprehension and acceptance in their variant work environment. Support and understanding from colleagues at physical and mentally heavy duties is a very important part of their work and healthy work environment, simultaneously as they describe that they experience deficiencies in different work situations.Keyword: Ambulance, physics, mental, environment.