Open AccessOs estressores nos clientes crítico: estudo revisão de literatura
Author(s) -
Renata Silva Vasconcelos,
Elaine Antunes Cortez
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
revista de enfermagem ufpe on line
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1981-8963
DOI - 10.5205/reuol.581-3802-1-rv.0304200939
Subject(s) - psychic , scielo , dehumanization , exploratory research , intensive care unit , psychology , nursing , medicine , humanities , medline , psychiatry , sociology , alternative medicine , political science , philosophy , social science , pathology , anthropology , law
Objective: to identify the generating factors of stress in the critical customers of the Unit of Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) that they are not sedated or in coma. Methods: descriptive, exploratory research and qualitative, carried through by means of a survey of the scientific production in periodic in the databases of the Lilacs, Medline and Scielo of last the ten years, where 10 publications had been selected. Results: with the technological development, as for example, mechanical devices of invasive monitorização, and fans, the ITU if had become highly modern, becoming the more frightening intensive cares for the customers. Conclusion: the factors, such as, to have pain, sleeplessness, absence of the familiar ones, to be tubed, the racket of the machineries, the difficulty of a communication and the dehumanization are the generating factors of stress. It is distinguished that it has controlled stress of it will allow to improve the physical and psychic condition, to promote an environment more humanized, and to assist in the planning of the nursing assistance more. Descriptores: stress, units of intensive therapy; nursing.