Abstract
Work enjoyment in home nursing
 This essay is a reflection on work enjoyment in home care nursing. Nurses describe working days that provide little pleasure. Work enjoyment tends to be the result of nurses’ relationship with colleagues and the people they are in contact with and care for. In interviews, home nurses describe busy days of physical and mental pressure to complete all their tasks. There is little enjoyment and a feeling of inadequacy in their work. They call for space for joy that gives them the possibility to achieve work satisfaction. An attempt is made to describe the factors that promote and constrain work enjoyment in nursing through reflection on home nurses’ experiences and the use of texts from the history of ideas and from nursing.
Highlights
«Når man magter sit job, da er jobudøvelsen præget av en selvfølgelighed og et overskud
For pasientene trenger så mye mer enn det er tid til (..) og jeg prøver å være så rolig som mulig, setter meg ned og viser at jeg er der for deg», sier en av hjemmesykepleierne
Jeg synes det kjennes trygt, selv om mange tenker at du er mye alene der du kjører ut alene i bil til ulike hus»
Summary
«Når man magter sit job, da er jobudøvelsen præget av en selvfølgelighed og et overskud. Men selv om arbeidsmiljøloven (2005) og andre lover har bidratt til å sikre både rettigheter, helse, miljø og sikkerhet, innebærer det ikke nødvendigvis at den enkelte ansatte skal oppleve arbeidsglede. Det kan være en tilstand, en holdning eller en følelse som har verdi utover både lønn og materielle goder, der arbeidet i seg selv er viktig for at en skal ha arbeidsglede (Vinje & Mittelmark, 2008).
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