Feelings and experiences of nursing professionals in the fight against coronavirus

Abstract

This article sought to report the feelings and experiences of nursing professionals who worked in a public hospital to combat COVID-19 through a descriptive study, type of experience report developed in the context of mandatory curricular internship in the supervised internship discipline, during the Undergraduate Nursing course at a public university in the state of Pará. The new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) affected the work of several health professionals who fought tirelessly against COVID-19 (Coronavirus Desease 2019). Worldwide, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, biomedists, psychologists, among others, paid a high price in the fight against the disease. Every sick professional represents a risk to the population, because in addition to being a source of infectious diseases, they also miss work and make their team unavailable, in addition to overloading the other professionals involved. The real impact of the new pandemic on the health of Brazilian nursing professionals remains unknown. However, diseases caused by viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 have a serious negative impact on the health of these professionals.