Transições, prazer e dor no trabalho de enfermagem

This article aims at the understanding of the factors linked to the genesis of pleasure and suffering as they are experienced by nursing workers in their labor performance. Based on the premises of labor relations, focusing the work organization and the working conditions, allied to contributions from Christophe Dejours, who analyzes the themes of pleasure and suffering within the work, we brought into evidence the particular aspects of the relationship between labor and suffering/pleasure process expressed by nursing workers who work in both public and universitarian hospital. Concerning the nursing trajectory from white angel to a professional, we could observe that it has been marked by conflicts, preconception, suffering and battles for labor space. Abandoning the position of peripheral and vulnerable knowledge, we verify nowadays the efforts of the nursing workers to construct a new image that contemplates strategies of revalorization of the professional statute, self-developing control, a motivating career plan and work contents based on newparadigms, thus becoming privileged and active actors to improve community health conditions and propellents of new ideas in order to implant a vanguard administration model in the hospital organizations.