Saúde mental,enfermagem e serviços de emergência: uma revisão integrativa.

Abstract

Nursing can be considered a profession that lives under work stress. Like this, nurses and nursing technicians are subjected to unfavorable conditions, such as, for example, high workloads and understaffing, which have negative impacts generally negative effects on mental health, job dissatisfaction thus impairing performance in the work environment. In this sense, the objective of this work is to identify the scientific productions related to mental health of health professionals nurses working in emergency services. It is a search of qualitative approach of the integrative literature review type, carried out through the virtual access to the SCIELO database, using the following descriptors: “Health mental health”, “Nursing” and “Emergency medical services”, were adopted as inclusion criteria: articles published during the period 2020 to 2023, available for free in full, articles not repeated in the search, and with objectives aimed at theme of this study, and written in Portuguese, where he established the following guiding question: what scientific journals have produced in relation to health of nursing professionals working in emergency services?They were 12 studies were included for this work, where such results point to the illness of nursing professionals working in emergency services. Of that way, in general, psychological distress factors were found, such as exhaustion emotional distress, low job satisfaction, stress, overload and devaluation of category some types of mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder trauma, common mental disorders, anxiety, depression and Burnout syndrome. With this, it was observed in the study that nursing professionals deal daily with with the risk of mental illness, regardless of the level of health care, in However, it was identified that some specific sectors such as emergency sectors and intensive care unit, end up intensifying these stressors even more. Urge to need to invest in strategies to minimize damage to the mental health of emergency service nursing professionals, especially those who had even more emotional health affected in the pandemic period.