Fatores de estresse da equipe enfermagem em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva

Abstract

The stress has become something very present in the routine of every human being, causing people placed on these stressors become exhausted due to this reality. This paper aims to show that the stress factors that affect nursing you work, working in a hospital environment or even in some health facilities. Therefore the professionals who work in the ICU, where we face severe patients and that are destabilized rapidly. So these patients require professionals who have specific knowledge and expertise to provide you with situations that happen within this sector, which is considered exhausting and stressful event in which all professionals are faced with many stressful situations. The objective of this work is to identify through literature major stress factors that affect the nursing staff in the ICU. This is a study of integrative literature review substantiated by evidence-based practice. Data collection was performed in May 2014 in LILACS, BDENF and PubMed databases, using the following descriptors: burnout, psychological stress, nursing, intensive care units, in which 7 articles were analyzed who matched the criteria established by the authors. Concludes that stress is present in health professionals and by key stressors is through the inadequate infrastructure, lack of allies to work overload stress that triggers these human resources professional.