Os sentimentos vividos pelos enfermeiros intensivistas durante a pandemia da COVID-19

Abstract

The work overload in the face of the pandemic caused by the coronavirus had a strong impact on the nurses of the Intensive Care Unit, becoming a source of suffering capable of affecting their psychological state. Objective: know the feelings experienced by the intensive care nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: This is a descriptive research, with a qualitative approach, using Alfred Schütz's social phenomenology as theoretical and methodological support. Fifteen nurses from two intensive care units to treat the coronavírus disease, from a public and a private hospital, were interviewed between the months of September and November 2020. The data were analyzed according to the theoreticalmethodological framework adopted and discussed with literature related to the subject. Results: The research revealed the World of Life of intensive care nurses permeated by feelings through three categories: Meaning the confrontation of COVID-19; Living with COVID-19 inserted in its World of Life; Resignifying the World of Life in coping with COVID-19 in the ICU.Conclusion: Nurses in the current biographical situation, immerse themselves in the world permeated by the pandemic and are strengthened as intense feelings change their World of life.