Caminhos e vertentes: os sentimentos reprimidos pelos profissionais de saúde da linha de frente da pandemia pela COVID-19

Abstract

The aim was to identify the feelings repressed by health professionals in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Experience report carried out by nursing interns at a municipal health center in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The performance of this practice enabled the opportunity to listen to health professionals from different areas of expertise, in which it was possible to identify the feelings repressed by them during the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience of six students from the penultimate period of the nursing graduation was narrated who, while fulfilling the mandatory internship time at a municipal health center, came across overworked professionals, with a high demand for services due to the consequences of the COVID pandemic -19. The physical and mental burden of health professionals, especially the nursing staff, is evident in this pandemic scenario. It is important, therefore, to have a more sensitive look at workers, so that they can express the feelings they experience, and thus mitigate the suffering in the face of physical and emotional exhaustion in dealing with the pandemic.