Relationship between Strength and Professional Quality of Life of Nurses Working Hospital Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT: Optimal quality of professional life can allow coping with stressful situations and avoiding fatigue. This is instrumental in jobs undergoing very demanding situations, such as nurses working in Emergency Departments. In this study, we investigated the relationship between functional and physiological indicators and the quality of professional life in nurses of Emergency Departments of two public hospitals. Fifty-nine professionals participated in the study. Cortisol (an indicator of stress) and post-test lactate (an indicator of fatigue) were analyzed in saliva and in the blood, respectively, at the beginning and at the end of the morning shift. The CVP-35 survey (Spanish version of the QPL-35 questionnaire) was used to assess the quality of professional life. Post-dynamometry circulating

SUBMITTER: Cordova-Martinez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9914948 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature