Abstract
Objective: To analyze the mortality of nursing professionals (PE) by Covid-19 in Brazil (BRA), United States (USA), Spain (SPA) and Italy (ITA) in the first half of 2020. Method: Exploratory, descriptive and quantitative research. The data were requested from the Federal Nursing Council (COFEN) and made available by the International Nurses Council (CIE). After being collected, they were organized in the Microsoft Excel 2016® software belonging to the Microsoft Office 2016® package, and a descriptive statistical analysis was implemented. Results: The universe of 677 death records of PE was identified until 05/19/2020. Brazil registered the largest preponderance accounting for 20.2% (n=137) of the cases, followed by the USA with 13.4% (n=91), Spain with 7.4% (n=50) and Italy with 5.8 % (n=39). Final considerations: There was an increase in the frequency of registration of cases of PE mortality by Covid-19 in the analyzed geographical and historical context.
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