O estresse ocupacional do enfermeiro a luz da literatura brasileira

Abstract

Introduction: Occupational stress comes from work, being the result of a range of events that take place in the body of the professional that prevents you from fulfilling your work obligations, and can trigger more serious problems in your health and well-being. Nowadays there are several professions that offer certain risks to their workers, however, the nurse for dealing directly with the care of the patient, ends up bordering on situations of loss, conflict, and suffering, both among his workmates and his patients and family members. Objective: to seek and understand the factors that contribute to occupational stress of the nurse, present in the Brazilian literature. Methodology: This is a review bibliographic. Results: The main factors that trigger the occupational stress in nurses are related to the adjacency with human suffering, difficulty in sharing their feelings among the members of the multidisciplinary team, excessive workload, low remuneration, supervised control, accumulation of tasks, devaluation professional, pressure exerted by managers and patients, job instability, among others. Final considerations: Stress triggers to the nurse the lack of family interaction, social, becomes discouraged in the performance of their activities, causes psychological and physical illnesses, as well as problems at work. Stress ends up interfering in the worker's quality of life, so every human being values his professional achievement a lot, so they must have a self-esteem developed in order to feel motivated to fulfill their personal expectations.