Estrés del profesional de enfermería que labora en la Unidad De Cuidados Intensivos del Hospital de Especialidades TMC, año 2021.

Abstract

Introduction: Stress is a physical and emotional response that causes imbalance in capacities during daily work. Objective: To determine the stress of the nursing professional who works in the intensive care unit of the TMC Specialty Hospital, year 2021. Methods: descriptive, quantitative, cross sectional, and prospective. Population: 75 nurses from the intensive care unit. Instrument: Surveys. Results: The sociodemographic characteristics, the majority are female, age 30-35 years, marital status of single, seniority from 5 to 10 years and working hours of 12 hours, clinical manifestations presenting a level of fatigue, stress-generating factors, the physical environment; the lack of personnel to cover the service, the psychological field; the death of patients; the sociocultural field; difficulty working in a team and coping attitudes towards reducing stress manifests that they wait for the stress to pass in order to continue with their activities in the service. Discussion: It is reported that a nursing professional has an age range between 26 years, the physical factors are the workload, psychological factors are the death and suffering of the patient and the sociocultural factor is not having a satisfactory answer to a question asked by a patient and feeling insufficiently patient to help emotionally. Conclusions: It is evident that work stress has affected the quality of their professional interactions and has an impact on their productivity.