Life quality, stress and repercussions in the assistance: nursing staff of an intensive care unit

Abstract

The search evaluates the life quality of the nursing in an Intensive Care Unit. It is analitical, descreptive, transversal, developed in the ICU of a general hospital, with 15 professionals. The instruments to collect the data are a survey based in Walton (1973), social demographic data and two opened questions. To the data analysis is used the SPSS and descriptive statistics. Most of them are women, married, 64,3% are 30-50 years old; unsatisfied with the salary and evaluates the assistance to the patient adequate. More than half of them disagrees that the hospital provides growth conditions and mantained themselves neutral concerning the dialogue and positioning; 60% keep a good relation with the administration, most of them (80%) with collegues; to 66,7% the working time does not harm the family relations. To most of them, the functions do not affect the emotional balance outside work and feel fulfilled. The professionals deal with stress factors and admit the interference in the assistance.

Key words – Intensive care unit. Nursing staff. Quality of life. Occupational stress. Nursing assistance.