Vivencias del personal de enfermería del servicio de hospitalización de una clínica del municipio de Pasto durante la pandemia Covid-19 Pasto-2023

Abstract

Since 2020, the world faced a new disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, generating an economic, social and health crisis (World Health Organization, 2020). The “pandemic imposed new conditions on nursing staff, which impacted personal and work issues” (Loyola et al., 2021, p. 502), triggering experiences and feelings of anxiety, fear, and questioning their own existence in the face of uncertainty. of the context. In this sense, a study was proposed that aimed to analyze the experiences of the nursing staff of the hospitalization service of a clinic in the municipality of Pasto during the covid-19 pandemic, 2023; also characterize the participants in the study, describe the experiences lived in a focus group of men and women, compare the experiences lived in both groups and explore the emerging categories of the experiences lived in the focus groups through a qualitative, hermeneutical study. , exploratory descriptive. Among the results, emerging categories were found such as: the experience of feeling like you are in danger, covering yourself vs getting infected, helplessness, when time becomes eternal, feeling rejection and discrimination, a light in the middle of the darkness, a virus that taught us to value more the family. The investigation concluded that the nursing staff had fear of becoming infected or dying, helplessness at not being able to help patients, witnessing many deaths, rejection by society for being health workers, and they agreed that vaccines were the only solution to this problem.