Working conditions of nursing staff in the Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

Introduction. The working conditions in which nurses are exposed in the intensive care unit is considered as a high risk of effort towards each professional, whether physical, mental, psychological, economic depending on the different conditions, environment, environment in which work intra and extra-labor, Objective. To analyze the different working conditions of nursing staff in the intensive care unit. Methodology. A study was proposed with a quantitative approach of a descriptive nature, for the collection of information of the present investigation, a survey was used individually to the nurses of the General Hospital Ambato IESS, and as an instrument the evaluation of working conditions was applied. of nursing staff in highly complex services, the same that was applied to 50 nurses of the service. Result. It was observed that the working conditions presented by the nursing staff in the ICU are overloaded and with insufficient remuneration, since this mainly harms the state of physical, mental, emotional and psychological health, causing the decrease in personnel in the entire service. this causing increased stress and work overload, and thus contracting serious diseases in the short or long term. Conclusión. The working conditions of the nursing staff in the ICU There is a high percentage of stress, overload and illness in the nursing staff that is in the intensive care unit, so it is of vital importance that the health personnel carry out their work limited to their capacity.