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Two thirds have suffered anxiety and 6 out of 10 insomnia, according to the largest survey carried out on the professional and emotional situation of the profession
From recognition to oblivion. This is how nursing professionals feel after almost two years in which the healthcare pressure caused by covid has strained health areas to the extreme with a historical shortage of nurses and that has hardly been increased. A cocktail that has provoked malaise, demotivation and unprecedented tiredness in a vocational profession, as shown by the largest survey carried out in the sector, in which 19,300 have participated nurses and has been carried out in the first weeks of January.
The study ‘Radiography of the professional and emotional situation of the nursing profession‘, made by the General Nursing Council in coordination with the regional schools, shows that the pandemic has seriously affected the mental health of health professionals. Thus, almost half of the nurses have thought about leave the profession (46.5%), 6 out of 10 confess to having suffered insomnia (58.6%), just over two thirds of severe episodes of anxiety (67.5%) and 33% depression. Likewise, covid has generated episodes of stress in 88.5% of professionals and fear and fear in 58.4%.
These are figures that exceed the incidence of mental illness in the general population, to the point that the survey indicates that 84.7% of professionals recognize that, in general terms, their mental health has been altered. This imprint is much deeper among nurses working in intensive care units, primary care, social health and emergencies.
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And it is that the volume of work has increased in 91% of the cases, it has stressed 71.2% and has overwhelmed almost 20%. And they are figures that reflect the current healthcare dimension, with the boom in infections caused by the omicron variantthey are not cumulative percentages of the entire pandemic.
For all these reasons, the sector plans to mobilizations, given that almost one hundred percent (98.7%) of nurses neither feel recognized by politicians nor trust that they provide solutions. They also rate aspects such as conciliation of family life (2.97 out of 10), with a resounding fail, Workload (3.35), recognition of professional career (2.92), salary (3.37) and development of specialties (2.28).