Efeitos do trabalho noturno e suas consequências para os profissionais de enfermagem: Uma revisão integrativa

• Autor(a) principal: Picoli, Kelly Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFU
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/22075
• topic: Trabalho noturno; Enfermagem; Qualidade de vida; Fatores de risco; Night work; Nursing; Quality of life; Risk factors; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE

Introduction: The work perpetuates our importance in the social body and is considered as the main factor of human development in the construction of its identity, besides guiding us hierarchically and socially within an organization. Post industrial revolution comes the night work that happens to be experienced by a significant portion of workers implying in the increase of the load / work day thus compromising their periods of leisure and relaxation. With the deprivation of sleep an adaptability of the organism occurs in a malicious way, eventually contributing to the increase of the inherent risks of the profession, significantly affecting the organic health of the worker. Understanding these effects and relating them to the daily work of night workers allows us to have a broader and more differentiated view on the subject so that we can better intervene with actions that mitigate the consequences of these effects. General Objective: To discuss the effects of night work and its consequences on nursing teams. Specific Objectives: To raise the aspects that involve night work and to verify the consequences to the biological health, psychomotor, social and quality of life of the nursing professionals. Method: Integrative Revision in databases of electronic libraries such as Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Scientific and Technical Literature of Latin America and the Caribbean (LILACS), Virtual Health Library (BVS-BIREME) and Nursing Database (BDENF), cross-referencing the Portuguese language descriptors, integrated the list of Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS), with the operator "and". Only articles on the selected topic, published in Brazil, available in full, that is, full text, freely accessible, written in the Portuguese language, between the years 2014 and April 2018, are included. Results: The full reading of the articles selected articles allowed the identification of some risk factors related to night work and guided how they directly and indirectly affect the quality of life of these professionals. Factors such as sleep deprivation, the main factor that correlates and causes others such as: irritability, loss of concentration, fatigue, stress, among others. Conclusion: With data exposure, it is suggested that institutions plan and implement measures to mitigate such harmful effects to worker health.