Objective: To reflect on the mental health of Nursing professionals in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. Method: This is a theoretical-reflective study based on the discursive formulation on the theme and supported by the national and international scientific literature and by the authors' critical analysis. Results: The analyzed studies, along with the care practice, showed that Nursing professionals are susceptible to the exacerbation of symptoms such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, anguish, and stress in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, in view of their exhaustive work shifts, patients' deaths, risk of infecting themselves and their families, and social isolation. Final considerations: The mental health of Nursing professionals needs to be listed as one of the priorities for health managers, guaranteeing strategies and public policies that ensure sanity for those who are in the front line of the fight against the pandemic.
Objective: To analyze the experiences that generate pleasure and suffering in the work of nurses in an oncopediatric inpatient unit. Methods: Qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study. Data collection took place from March to May 2018, through interviews with eight nurses in an oncopediatric inpatient unit. Results: The verbalized experiences of pleasure were the work developed with children, participation in the treatment and cure of patients and the recognition of family members in relation to the work performed. The suffering experiences were palliative care and death of patients, performing invasive procedures and organizing work. Final considerations: It was possible to analyze the experiences of pleasure and suffering of nurses in an oncopediatric unit through the psychodynamics of work, allowing to reinvent prevention and intervention measures by managers in health/mental illness processes at work.
RESUMO Objetivo: Refletir sobre a saúde mental dos profissionais de enfermagem após um ano da pandemia de coronavírus. Método: Estudo teórico-reflexivo, fundamentado nas evidências encontradas em literatura científica nacional e internacional, baseado na elaboração discursiva sobre a temática e somado à percepção e análise crítica das autoras. Resultados: Após um ano de enfrentamento da pandemia observou-se uma piora da saúde mental dos profissionais da enfermagem, tendo em vista a sua continuidade e também o agravamento do cenário do sistema de saúde, com alto risco de contaminação e repercussões da doença na vida profissional e pessoal. Considerações finais: Cabe aos gestores das instituições de saúde a sensibilidade no entendimento e no atendimento de sofrimentos já existentes e também aqueles que certamente virão, possibilitando espaços que dialoguem e oportunizem a melhora e a manutenção da saúde mental dos trabalhadores da enfermagem.
Objective: to understand family members’ perceptions of nursing care for people with psychiatric symptoms. Methods: qualitative study, with 13 family members, in five clinical inpatient units linked to the clinical nursing service of a general hospital. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Results: the challenges perceived by family members were turnover of professionals in the work schedules and difficulty in specialized management. The participants suggested training of the team, greater multi-professional integration, improved management and reduced turnover of professionals during care. Conclusion: family members verbalized difficulties and suggestions to support reflection on the care offered to people with psychiatric symptoms hospitalized in clinical units, in order to improve work practices and qualify care.
Objective: To reflect on the mental health of nursing professionals one year after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: Theoretical-reflective study based on evidence found in national and international scientific literature, on the discursive elaboration on the theme and including the authors' perception and critical analysis. Results: After one year facing the pandemic, nursing professionals experienced a worsening of their mental health, given the persistence and also the deterioration of the health system scenario, high risk of contamination and repercussions of the disease in professional and personal lives. Final considerations: Managers of health institutions are supposed to be sensitive to and understand the psychological distress faced, or to be faced, by nursing workers, by providing spaces for dialogue aimed to improve and maintain the mental health of these workers.
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