Análisis del ausentismo de los Licenciados y Licenciadas de Enfermería de la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos del Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo de la ciudad de Guayaquil en el período de emergencia sanitaria 2020

Abstract

The present study consists of the analysis of absenteeism of the Nursing Graduates of the intensive care units of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Specialty Hospital of the Guayaquil city in times of pandemic and the intervention to be carried out to minimize the impact of absenteeism its consequences. The mission of the intensive care nursing unit is to provide comprehensive care to patients with critical or potentially critical processes; however, the COVID 19 virus directly affected these personnel, sickening more than 50% of its population. The objective of the intervention is to optimally equip professionals with the profile of Nursing Graduates in each of the guards of the different intensive care units: ICU A, ICU B. ICU C, ICU COVID, Intermediate ICU; in addition to proposing an action plan that considerably mitigates the psychosocial effects caused by COVID 19. The results of the intervention meet the objective set, despite the inconveniences presented by the context of the pandemic; the plan was executed with very good results.