Factores asociados al estrés laboral en el personal de enfermería del área de emergencia y Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de un hospital de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Occupational stress is a health problem of psychological and physiological origin experienced by health workers, especially nurses. The main objective of this research was to determine the factors associated with work stress in Nursing staff. The research was descriptive with a prospective approach, transversal design. The population was twenty professional and non-professional nursing working in the emergency area and intensive care unit. The instrument was a questionnaire with polytypical questions using the survey technique, the following results were obtained: 40% of the nurses are young and are exposed to stressors due to working conditions, 80% are female, the 25% of people always perceive the workload, 70% face the demands of supervisors, lack of support from the coordinators and do not have rotating shifts. 65% sometimes have the material to perform safe procedures. The majority of staff surveyed experienced muscular pain (57%) and demotivation (45%) in the position of Nursing graduates. It is concluded that the multiple stressors of the work environment one of them is the overload of work that generates the physical and mental fatigue in the person, at the same time diminishes the capacity in the performance of the functions of Nursing.