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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería

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SILVEIRA CARDOSO, Leticia; CEZAR-VAZ, Marta Regina  and  SANTOS DA SILVA, Mara Regina. Possibilities for conciliating work with family needs. Invest. educ. enferm [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.1, pp.78-85. ISSN 0120-5307.

Objective. To identify the possibilities for conciliating work with family life. Methodology. Quantitative, descriptive study undertaken in 2008. Data was collected through structured interviews with 92 couples residing in a municipality in Rio Grande/RS who complied with the inclusion criteria: insertion of both members in the job market, having at least one child under seven years of age, and signing the terms of free and informed consent. Results. The possibility of working part-time for family reasons presented a difference between mothers and fathers; for the former it is a possible alternative, and for the latter, not. Flexibility in carrying out the daily hourly workload without having requested permission to the employer much time in advance was viable for both, when the reason was related to the health of their children. The couples indicated that employers did not take into account priorities for families with children to be free on holidays and have days available to see to the children's needs. Resignations, communicated not much in advance due to child health reasons, are possible for the mothers and fathers. Conclusion. There are difficulties in the support which employing institutions provide to the workers who have family needs, in particular those related to attention and care for their children.

Keywords : employee discipline; family relations; nursing; parentchild relations.

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