Ausentismo laboral del personal de enfermería durante la pandemia COVID-19

Abstract

Nursing personnel face a complex situation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, excessive work, feelings of insecurity, health problems have generated absenteeism from work in the institutions, being a problem. The main objective of the investigation was to determine the work absenteeism of nursing personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the study, a meta-analysis was carried out with articles, publications, reviews and documents from scientific societies obtained from Google scholar, databases such as PUBMED, Lilacs, Scielo, Elsiever, Latindex, BVS. For this study, the information was searched in stages, the first stage was the search for the information, the second selection of documents, the third extraction of information and, as the last stage, the presentation of results. As an investigative result, the reasons for work absenteeism in nursing personnel were identified, corresponding to occupational and mental health diseases such as anxiety and depression, other reasons are age, sex, marital status, work overload and insecurity in the workplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was found that the COVID-19 pandemic has generated great effects due to the absenteeism of nursing personnel, the main reason being contagion, in addition to occupational diseases due to excessive workload and psychological diseases such as anxiety and depression.