Nurses' work in intensive care units: feelings of suffering

Martins, Júlia Trevisan; Robazzi, Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz

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“…14 A previous study showed that one of the individual strategies used by intensive care nurses was finding strength in religiosity, 18 corroborating the findings of this study. Such strategies are essential for protection against suffering; however, when used collectively they strengthen the team as a whole.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…18 However, the Psychodynamics of Work tries to understand how workers can maintain mental balance, even when subjected to destabilizing conditions, 19 which seems to have happened to the study participants. It was also found the presence of defense mechanisms to produce better coping of suffering at work, when patients die.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such strategies are essential for protection against suffering; however, when used collectively they strengthen the team as a whole. 18 In the context of Psychodynamics of Work, the work is not only seen in its negative context, but may be structural, and suffering can be directed towards pleasure and health, 20 even in death situations. Unfortunately, training in the health professions still tends to emphasize the technician training at the expense of humanistic values.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Feelings of nurses faced with death: pleasure and suffering from the perspective of psychodynamics of Dejours

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Article linked to the research: Sentimentos de enfermeiros confrontados com a morte. Conflicts of interest: none.Received on: February 23, 2016. Methods. This is a qualitative, exploratory study, analyzed, interpreted and discussed emphasizing the suffering and pleasure, proposed by Dejours. Results. Participants were 11 nurses, mostly woman, single, white, Catholic, between two sixteen years of profession. The analysis of responses allowed finding some driving and potentiating factors of feelings of pleasure and suffering. It was identified as pleasure:feeling of accomplishment, comfort and relief; as suffering, sadness, frustration, difficulty with grief, impotence and incapacity. They also have defense mechanisms to prevent suffering, as not to think about suffering and death, taking refuge in work. Conclusion.The factors related to the pleasure and the pain of Nurses when facing death were identified. Therefore, education is necessary regarding the process of death in academic training and studies that approach the nurse to this natural process.

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“…units is related to the care these professionals provide to critical patients, problems they take home, the need to deal with patients' family members, teamwork, lack of acknowledgment and work-related technology (20) , which may explain the strong correlations found in this study among the MBI (EE, D and I) and NSI (RSC and IWF) domains. These correlations refer us to the psychodynamics and Psychopathology of labor, analytical aspects of which encompass the dynamics of psychological processes mobilized by the confrontation of the individual with the reality of work based on the categories of the analysis of work organization and mental suffering (21) .…”

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Burnout and Stress Among Nurses in a University Tertiary Hospital

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Benatti

Sabino³

2010

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This cross-sectional, analytical and correlational study investigated the existence of Burnout based on a sample of 149 nurses of a university tertiary hospital from October to December 2008 and correlate Burnout with stressors in the hospital work environment. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Nurses’ Stress Inventory and a questionnaire to characterize the subjects were applied. The results indicated the presence of Burnout in 7.3% of nurses (quartile) and 10.22% (tercile), and also a correlation among the inventories’ domains. Vulnerability to this type of illness among nurses was increased by stress experienced in the work environment.

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“…It is understood that it is important to identify the different sources of attention demands that the nurse is exposed (12) since the workload and physical and mental attrition, accidents and occupational illnesses and absenteeism are associated with the work environment of these professionals (18)(19)(20) . However their isolated analysis only allows the recognition of those situations of more or less attention demand.…”

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Attention Demands in the Workplace and the Capacity to Direct Attention of Nurses

Roscani

Guirardello

2010

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This was a descriptive, correlational study designed to evaluate the capacity to direct attention (CDA) of the nurse and to verify an association between the CDA and attention demand situations. For data collection the instruments used were: the Attentional Function Index and the Directed Attention Demands. The participants were 169 nurses of a teaching hospital in the State of São Paulo. The mean perception of performance or CDA was 60.4 which differed between the variables: unit of work (p=0.013), work hours (p=0.044), presence of health problems (p=0.026) and problems of a psychological nature (p=0.005).There was a negative association between the situations of demand and CDA (r = -0.294, p<0.0001). It was concluded that nurses showed good CDA, which was related to some professional and demographic variables, and the higher the attentional demands, the lower the CDA. Demandas de atención en el ambiente de trabajo y la capacidad del enfermero de dirigir su atenciónSe trata de un estudio descriptivo y correlacional que tuvo por objetivo evaluar la capacidad que tiene el enfermero de dirigir su atención (CDA) y verificar se hay asociación entre CDA y situaciones de demanda de atención. Para la recolección de datos se utilizó los instrumentos: Attentional Function Index y Demandas de Atención.Participaron del estudio 169 enfermeros de un hospital de enseñanza del interior del estado de Sao Paulo. El promedio de la percepción de desempeño (CDA) fue de 60,4 y tuvo resultados diferentes entre las variables: unidad de trabajo (p=0,013); carga horaria (p=0,044); presencia de algún problema de salud (p=0,026) y problema de orden psicológico (p=0,005). Existe una asociación negativa entre las situaciones de demanda y CDA (r=-0,294; p<0,0001). Se concluye que los enfermeros presentaron buena CDA, la cual es influenciada por aspectos demográficos y profesionales y que cuanto más grandes son las situaciones de demanda de atención, menor es la CDA.

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Nurses' work in intensive care units: feelings of suffering

Cited by 40 publications

References 7 publications

Feelings of nurses faced with death: pleasure and suffering from the perspective of psychodynamics of Dejours

Feelings of nurses faced with death: pleasure and suffering from the perspective of psychodynamics of Dejours

Burnout and Stress Among Nurses in a University Tertiary Hospital

Attention Demands in the Workplace and the Capacity to Direct Attention of Nurses

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