No epicentro da virulência: impactos da Covid-19 para os profissionais da enfermagem no Hospital Onofre Lopes (RN)

Abstract

The present research aims to investigate the various challenges and impacts experienced due to the COVID19 pandemic by the nursing team working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Onofre Lopes University Hospital, maintained and operated by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). It exposes the serious limitations of the public health sector and the contradictions related to the vast disparity in comparison to the well-equipped and less accessible private sector. The COVID-19 pandemic, as usual, has weighed more heavily, within the capitalist framework, on the shoulders of the poorer segments of the population and, consequently, on public hospitals. Observing closely and reflecting on the experiences, perceptions, and psychosocial conditions of the professionals on the front lines in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is, especially in times of crisis, an endeavor of utmost importance. It allows us to consider conditions and strategies for the future to improve the working and service conditions for these professionals. Therefore, in order to address this topic, the phenomenological research primarily relied on the personal account of the author who worked on the front lines, data obtained by the Access to Information Law (Lei nº 12.527/2011), as well as a literature review.