who were working while undertaking the graduate program. This preference can be related to an insufficient number of grants offered by programs, as well the grant values provided within Brazil, which, in this study, represent the minimum value of income.(9) Therefore, these nurses achieved better financial possibilities by choosing employment over exclusive
dedication to graduate school. However, this is an option that may predispose individuals to exhaustion,
since the work tasks of nurses are by themselves
considered to produce physical and psychological
overload