Stress in nursing professionals’ everyday life: reflections on the routine of work hospital

Abstract

Aim: to assess the way members of the nursing staff of the University Hospital of Northeast Brazil experience stress in daily life of their work activities. Method: a descriptive study of qualitative approach. Data collection was carried out in June 2015, through semi-structured interview. Twenty-three professionals of the nursing staff, who compose the units that provide specific care to adult inpatients, participated. The data were analyzed according to Bardin's content analysis technique. Results: the following categories emerged: Stressors in daily work - with the sub-categories: routine care experienced by staff; the difficulty in solving problems of surplus and experienced work overload - and family caregivers and nursing staff: implications for care. Conclusions: the stressor agents may interfere directly on the health of professionals that participated in the study, as well as on the development of quality nursing care.

Keywords

• enfermagem
• esgotamento profissional
• equipe de enfermagem