BRAZILIAN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ON PSYCHIC SUFFERING AND DEPRESSION IN NURSES WORKING IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Abstract

Nursing professionals that work in emergency and urgency departments are more susceptible to psychological distress and depression since the professional environment, its characteristics and organization of work imply in constant stressful situations. Objective: identify the Brazilian scientific literature on the causes of psychological distress and depression in the nursing team working in the emergency services. Method: integrative review of an exploratory and descriptive character was carried out in the databases Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) and Scientific Electronic Library Online repository (Scielo), with the keywords "mental suffering", "emergency" and "depression", including papers published from 2010 to 2016, resulting in a sample of seven studies.  Results: causes of depression and psychic suffering are violence in the workplace, emergency care and organizational factors such as physical environment, institutional norms, bureaucracy, communication, autonomy, rewards, safety) than with other factors such as personal And work, the difficulty in separating what is physical or psychological stress and the psychic vulnerability to which these professionals are exposed, facts that may be associated with symptoms of psychic suffering and depression. Conclusion: it was concluded that the development of prevention and promotion of occupational health in emergency departments is necessary and needs to be multifocal. Actions such as the development of discussion groups and the practice of qualified hearing with the help of a psychologist could be implemented.