The stress among nurses that works in the Intensive Therapy Unit / O estresse entre enfermeiros que atuam em unidade de terapia intensiva

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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The word stress has been frequently used, being associated with sensations of discomfort in many situations, depending of the point of view of each one. The stress is related to nursing mainly because the nurses have to work with sick people, suffering physically and psychologically, that requires a lot of attention, comprehension and empathy. Dealing with the referred people and with the diverse situations, the feelings that they develop can let them to irritating, disappointing states and, even, to depression. The work in the nursing area, for itself, its a source of stress caused by the patients suffering, mainly inside the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU), where they need straight and intensive care and they are subjected to sudden changes in the general state. As the importance of the theme, this study, following a quantitative and qualitative methodology, aims to describe the nurses that developed their activities in the ITU, verifying how they associated the stress with their duties, and, also, identifying the stress presence among them. For that, 21 ITU nurses from 5 hospitals of the inner State of São Paulo participated of the research, answering a list of questions related to their description; one questionnaire with 2 questions about stress and the Inventário do Estresse em Enfermeiros. The results showed that most of the professionals are women, between 24 to 50 years old, married, graduated for 1 to 16 years and with specialization course. The lack of human resources and materials, the relationship interpersonal among the staff, the exceeding activities and the rotation of the hospital bed, were some of the aspects that the nurses said associated with their activities and that were caused by the physical and psychological symptoms. Among the interviewed nurses, 57,1% considered the ITU a stress local and 23,8% presented a high score that indicates the presence of stress, that takes into consideration that this study reveals the fact that the stress, even being considered since a long time ago, it affects, in some way, these professionals, and, the institutions dont offer special attention for their professionals to promote their integral health yet.

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unidades de terapia intensiva enfermagem estresse stress intensive therapy unit nursing

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