Abstract

LIMA DA SILVA, Jorge Luiz et al. Stress in the nurse's activity management: health implications. av.enferm. [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.2, pp.144-152. ISSN 0121-4500.

The activities performed by nursing care activities to combine management functions, which can lead to work overload. Objective: to describe the factors that generate stress in the administrative tasks of nurses and reflect on their implications for the health of this person. Method: descriptive study that used the literature review, with published works of the period 2001 to 2011, as sources of information for building reflexive discussion of text. Discussion: was based on the description of causal factors of stress in the administrative tasks of nurses and the consequences for health professionals. Conclusion: the managerial activities, linked to planning and management of nursing staff increase the stress load that add to the care tasks. This harms the health and well-being manifested through physical exhaustion, mental and psychosomatic disorders. Should be proposed actions that seek better working conditions and mitigate the stress of nurses in the workplace. Are perceived deficiencies that may impair the quality of life of workers, alarming fact, in a social reality in which the worker's health has been considered and valued as an inalienable right.

Keywords : burnout professional; occupational health; nursing team.

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