Published 2022-06-29
Keywords
- Burnout,
- Personal de enfermería,
- Pandemia,
- COVID-19
- Burnout,
- Nursing staff,
- Pandemic,
- COVID-19
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Abstract
The pandemic due to the new coronavirus (COVID - 19) as a public health challenge has implied multiple challenges in health systems and generated stressful contexts that affected the mental health of health workers, for which this work aim was to review the existing literature on burnout in nursing staff during the current COVID - 19pandemic, for which a panoramic review of the literature was carried out based on the methodology proposed by Arskey and O’Malley using the following descriptors: Professional Burnout, Nursing personnel, nursing staff, pandemic and COVID - 19 in the PubMed, Scielo and Google Scholar databases, with which 25 articles were retrieved that met the inclusion criteria. Results: 41 variables related to the presence of burnout in nursing staff were identified and organized into 5 main categories. Discussion: COVID - 19 pandemic generated stressors in nursing staff, multiple variables of sociodemographic, labor, and social factors were identified as influential for the development of burnout in nursing staff. Conclusion: It´s necessary to plan mental health care programs for nursing staff based on the evidence provided by empirical studies.