El síndrome de burnout en enfermeros del sector hospitalario durante la pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

Burnout syndrome refers to the physical, mental and emotional exhaustion generated in a worker due to the work demands he/she must face, as is the case of nurses in the hospital sector. In this sense, this article presents an analysis of the risk factors and the occurrence of this syndrome in nurses who provide health care during the covid-19 pandemic. A review of theoretical antecedents is carried out framed in a qualitative methodology where a systematized research is generated. It can be evidenced that the interaction between external and internal factors needs to be addressed both in the work environment and in the person's own environment, allowing an agreement that burnout in medicine is detrimental to the professional, the institution and the patient, since the staff working in intensive care environments may be particularly affected.