O ser-profissional de enfermagem em tempo de covid-19: desvelando fenômenos psicossociais e do trabalho

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the personal lives and work of nursing professionals. Given the scenario and to deal with the challenges presented, there was a need to re-signify the "human being" and the "nursing being" who faced the new and unknown, seeking oneself, starting from oneself. The study aimed to understand the psychosocial phenomena and the work of nursing professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a qualitative study, developed at the Obstetric Center of the Maternal and Child University Hospital of the Federal University of Maranhão. The theoretical-methodological framework used was Martin Heidegger's Phenomenology. Data collection was carried out in May and June 2023, totaling 23 nursing professionals, 11 nurses, and 12 nursing technicians. Nursing professionals reported their experiences with intense transformations. The comprehensive moment made it possible to identify seven units of meaning: 1. Being nursing and COVID-19; 2. The patient

with covid-19; 3. The psychological being and COVID-19; 4. Being a worker and COVID- 19; 5. Being a family and COVID-19; 6. The social being and COVID-19 and 7. The nursing

being post-COVID-19. Being-nursing and COVID-19 reveal the ontic dimension and bring what is experienced frighteningly, permeated with ignorance, fear, and insecurity, and the ontological dimension linked to their daily existence, because as "care-beings" they are also "care-beings" -in the world". The patient with COVID-19 who is subject to illness reveals anguish and fear of the dark, of uncertainty, of contracting the disease, of death, with thoughts focused on taking care of oneself and others. The psychological being and COVID-19 faced tensions that caused anxiety, stress, and emotional exhaustion aggravated by pain, suffering, distance, death, and losses, seeing themselves prevented from fulfilling the possibilities of their life. The working-being and COVID-19 experienced an overload of activities, the absence of a colleague, an increase in responsibility that meant bitterness, a perception of loss and weakness, a negativity in their experience, which always represented healing, care, and rehabilitation. The family-being and COVID-19 revealed the fear of contaminating their family members and the concern about giving them attention, and care and changed their interaction, solidarity, and affection, favoring reflection on their existence and transcendence. The social being and COVID-19 were faced with changes in their social routine, imposing physical distance and changing their daily lives, with the uncertainty of returning to socializing with others safely and comfortably and this isolation brought a change in their posture. Nursing being post-COVID-19 gave new meaning to the new reality imposed by the awareness of facts and working conditions, drastically transforming their being, their profession, care practices, service routine, and interpersonal relationships, discovering the meaning of their preferences and priorities. It was found that nursing professionals experienced feelings of anguish associated with fear of the unknown, illness, death, and uncertainty regarding the future and reported significant changes in themselves, in others, in the affectivity of their interpersonal relationships, in care, and nursing in a clear way, making them reflect in the face of a tragic scenario, on their consciousness, existence and finitude, taking on the responsibility of doing something for themselves and others and assuming the anguish of their various ways-of-being as a possibility of life.