Atención de enfermería en pacientes psiquiátricos y su incidencia en los afectos del personal

Abstract

Mental health is a state of well-being in which the person maintains total awareness of their abilities/skills and knows how to use them for daily life, the first concepts of nursing care are born by Philippe Pinel and Hildegard Peplau that improve quality and warmth Regarding the care of these patients, the objective of the research is to determine the nursing care in psychiatric patients and its impact on the affections of the staff. The universe was made up of 27 people who work in the "Sagrado Corazón de Jesús" nursing home in the city of Ambato. A survey consisting of 8 questions was applied, evaluated with the positive affect and negative affect scale of PANAS and scored with the Likert scale. It was obtained as a result that the first, second, third, fifth and sixth questions predominated positive emotions within activities carried out during patient care, while the fourth, seventh and eighth questions were aimed at seeking emotions after care, prevailing negative affects. It is concluded that health personnel are immersed in various work situations that produce positive and negative emotions, negative emotions being the most dangerous since they prevent proper care of patients, which is why it is necessary to implement relaxation activities and therapies. with a psychologist who educates and helps staff restore affected emotions to provide better patient care and improve caregiver mental health.