Abstract
The article analyzes nurses work and profession, based on the transformations that have been occurring in the contemporary society I general and, especially, in work at the health area. It presents information from secondary sources characterizing the nurses prominent role in the configuration of the national scene of the demand for workstations, especially by the public politics directed to change the health care model, as the Family Health Program. It also highlights the results of an inquiry accomplished with nurses to quantify and qualify the forms of insertion in the labor market, in an attempt to unveil its dynamics. The results point to an absence of structural unemployment for nurses in the country. They also show that the flexibility of working relations does not affect nurses labor market adversely, where the formal work and the work at the public field still prevail.
Key Words: Nursing, Profession, Labor Market, Human Resources in Health.
