Estratégias gerenciais utilizadas por enfermeiros para o enfrentamento da Covid-19

Abstract

The present study exposes, from the emergence of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), the challenges that health professionals, managers, students, teachers and those other professionals active face while combating the pandemics in its frontline. In this context, nurses have sought to use their best strategies and practices - assistive, managerial, relational, among others -, in order to maintain the minimum working conditions for their team and the maximum safety and quality in the provision of assistance to the population. This work is a bibliographic review of the Virtual Health Library (VHL-SALUD), with access to LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences) databases, SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), and includes the presentation of a flow chart. The results emerged a category, composed of three subcategories, which is discussed here in depth about the managerial strategies used by nurses in coping with COVID-19. The conclusion states that the role of nursing in the globalized world was notorious even with the countless challenges of the profession. In general, it can be observed the importance and the degree of complexity that professionals face, mainly, during the pandemic crises. This study shows significant results for social reflection regarding the role of nursing during a global crisis.