This study approaches the issue of stress
in perioperative nurses.
find out what stress level, the burnout level
experienced and the coping strategies that they use.
This is a non experimental study, quantitative,
descriptive and correlational, in an transversal plane. The
sample consisted with 81 participants, 27 perioperative
nurses of the Northeast Local Health Unit (ULSNE) and
54 of the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Central Hospital.
We applied three assessment tools: Maslach Burnout
Inventory (MBI) of Maslach and Jackson (1986), Nurse
Stress Index (NSI) of Harris (1989) and Problem Solving
Inventory (IRP) of Vaz Serra (1987).
The main results were, according
to the NSI, the sample showed a considerable degree of
stress, presenting values equivalent to stressful in the subscales
workload 1 (Quantitative), Organizational Climate
and Dealing with patients and family. At the level of burnout,
we found that the sample has a low level of burnout
and through IRP we concluded that the sample as a whole,
has reasonable coping mechanisms, showing effective
strategies in terms of internal/external control problems
and control the aggressiveness internalized/externalized.
