Afastamentos dos profissionais de enfermagem da UTI adulto de um hospital universitário de Uberlândia: implicações

Abstract

The present study discusses the relationship between the environment and the nature of work with the prevalent diseases in nursing professionals of the Adult ICU of a University Hospital of Uberlândia that imply removal and to know the perception of the worker in the face of all this process that culminated in his removal. . For this, the specific objectives listed were to know the profile of the nursing team; identify the causes of sick leave and analyze the workers' view of the illness process. Data on prevalent diseases were collected in the Specialized Safety Engineering and Occupational Medicine Service (SESMT) and Server Life and Health Directorate (DIRQS) sectors and profile data were collected from the Nursing Directorate and after This collection consisted of a questionnaire regarding the workers' view of the disease process that culminated in their removal. For quantitative analysis was used the statistical program Bioestat version 5.3 (free software), and for qualitative interpretation was performed through content analysis in thematic analysis. The results showed a predominance of professionals from the nursing technician category (63.5%), female (87.8%), age range 31-40 years (39.1%), single marital status (50, 4%) in relation to working time in the institution, the predominance is of professionals with less than one year in the institution (35.7%) showing a high turnover of workers. According to ICD-10, the predominant diseases group in these professionals were respectively: CIDF00 F99 group of diseases related to behavioral mental disorders (19.02%) and M00 M99 group of diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (18.84 %). It was possible to identify through the professional's view that the environment and nature of ICU nursing work is closely related to illness due to multiple attributions and working under pressure in a tense environment due to the criticality of the patients and the environment's own particularities implying in physical and mental tiredness. However, even with all the negative parts of ICU nursing work, the nursing professional still feels satisfaction and personal fulfillment with the activity performed. In order to deepen the investigations regarding the relationship of the environment and nature of the work in the Adult ICU and its health. study population is necessary new approaches to study, since the subject does not end here, we believe that our results point to the urgent need for changes in the working conditions of this group of professionals with local measures as the permanent services of psychology and physical therapist focused on professional care, and bureaucratic and organizational measures such as reducing the workload.