Qualidade de vida dos profissionais de enfermagem que atuam na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva

Abstract

The Intensive Care Unit - ICU is a closed sector, complex, stressful, and risky. Require these features, intense pace of work, requiring staff attention and preparation in the care of patients who are generally critical, in addition to technical skills and abilities science, technology and insufficient infrastructure and lead the nursing professional psychological pain and physical exhaustion affecting their quality of life. Objective, in this study was to evaluate the quality of life of the nursing staff that works in ICU, where patients are adults. For both, there was an Integrative Review, based on studies available in the databases: Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences (LILACS), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and the database of nursing (BDENF). The results obtained by means of publications consulted showed that the nurses are dissatisfied with their quality of life. There are few publications on the subject, available in searchable databases that address the quality of life of nursing staff in CTIs. It is intended, with the evidence revealed in this work, awakening interest in the nurses in doing research that addressed the topic and that nurses can reflect on their quality of work life in CTIs and can identify factors that interfere and intervene in it in seeking a satisfactory quality of life, both at work and personal life.