COVID-19 Pandemisinde Sağlık Çalışanı Olarak Hemşirelerin Karşılaştığı Sorunlar

Year 2022, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 488 - 496, 25.08.2022

Büşra İnaç Yılmaz , Öner Özdemir

https://doi.org/10.56061/fbujohs.1085657

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Şiddetli akut solunum sendromu koronavirüs-2 (SARS-CoV-2), solunum damlacıkları, temas ve aerosoller yoluyla bulaşabilen ve dünya çapında büyük ölçekli enfeksiyonlara neden olan pandemiye yol açmıştır. Salgınla en ön safta mücadele eden hemşireler, fiziksel ve psikolojik sıkıntılar yaşamaktadır. Bu psikolojik sıkıntılar, ağırlıklı olarak uyku bozukluğu, anksiyete ve depresyon belirtileri, travma sonrası stres, karar verememe ve hatta somatik belirtiler olabilmektedir. Bu derlemede COVID-19 pandemisinden en çok etkilenen sağlık profesyonelleri arasında yer alan hemşirelerin sorunlarına değinilmiştir. Sağlık çalışanlarının, etki düzeyinin psikolojik ve duygusal toleransı aştığı, travma düzeyinin yüksek olduğu bilinmektedir. Uzun iş vardiyaları (günde ortalama 16 saate ulaşan), oldukça bulaşıcı bir hastalığa yakalanma riskinin yüksek olması ve yeterli koruma önlemlerinin alınmaması karşısında, sağlık çalışanları arasında psikolojik sıkıntılar ortaya çıkmaktadır. Pandemi, etik sorunlarının yanı sıra psikolojik ve ruhsal sorunları da beraberinde getirmektedir. Covid-19 pandemisi ile hemşirelik mesleği ve hemşirelik bakımı ulusal ve uluslararası platformlarda yeniden gündem olup, önemli hale gelmiştir. Yapılan çalışmalar incelendiğinde covid 19’un hemşirelere yansıyan yüzünün en fazla psikolojik olduğu görülmektedir. Hemşirelere pandemi gibi yoğun çalışılan dönemlerde psikolojik destek sağlanması önem arz etmektedir.

Keywords

anksiyete, Covid 19, hemşire, ruh sağlığı, stres

Problems Faced by Nurses as Healthcare Workers in the COVID- 19 Pandemic

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to the pandemic, which can be transmitted through respiratory droplets, contact and aerosols, causing large-scale infections worldwide. Nurses, who are fighting against the epidemic at the forefront, experience great physical and psychological distress. This psychological distress may be predominantly sleeping disturbance, anxiety and depression symptoms, post-traumatic stress, inability to make decisions, and even somatic symptoms. In this review, the problems of nurses, who are among the health professionals most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, are mentioned. It is known that the level of impact of healthcare professionals exceeds psychological and emotional tolerance, and the level of trauma is high. Psychological problems arise among health workers in the face of long work shifts (reaching an average of 16 hours a day), the high risk of contracting a highly contagious disease, and the lack of adequate protection measures. Pandemic brings with it psychological and spiritual problems as well as ethical problems. With the Covid-19 pandemic, the nursing profession and nursing care are on the agenda again on national and international platforms and have become important. When the studies are examined, it is seen that the face of covid 19 reflected on the nurses is mostly psychological. It is important to provide psychological support to nurses during periods of intense work such as pandemics.

Keywords

anxiety, Covid 19, mental health, nurse, stress

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