Saúde mental e estratégias de intervenção para o cuidado aos profissionais de Enfermagem durante a pandemia da Covid19

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the mental health demands among nursing professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic, and cite strategies found in the literature to improve the problem. This work had a guiding question: “How is the mental health of the nursing team and what are the care strategies implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic?”. This work is a literature review on the proposed theme. The search was carried out in the Virtual Health Library (VHL), through the descriptors, thus, 11 publications were found, in the LILACS (9) and MEDLINE (2) databases. Through the reading and analysis of the abstracts, 4 articles that did not match the proposed theme were excluded, leaving 7 for analysis. After reading the articles and exploring the material, organized in a record table, the data was organized into thematic categories and critically analyzed, thus, a first article was prepared, which constituted Chapter I: Mental health of nursing professionals during the pandemic: a systematic review, which led to the elaboration of Chapter II: Psychopathologies and intervention strategies for the care of nursing professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the form of a narrative review. Therefore, we conclude how evident the consequences of Covid-19 are and how much health professionals, especially nurses, need help and understanding. Problems related to the mental health of nursing professionals are getting worse and public health measures, such as educational activities and actions that help in coping with these problems, are essential and are measures that improve the mental and physical health of professionals, in addition, to protect the performance of their functions. The proposed strategies and techniques aim to reduce the accumulation of stress, alleviate and treat the effects of anxiety, working as an escape valve for these ailments.