Abstract

LEON ROMAN, Carlos A.. Take care of yourself not to die giving care. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2007, vol.23, n.1. ISSN 0864-0319.

The professional nursing assistance relation is sustained on health care, which is an interactive process between a person needing support and another capable of offering it. Feelings, emotions, beliefs, knowledge, personal experiences, past health, and mechanisms to face health situtations, in particular, interact in this process. During the first trimester of 2006, it was made a bibliographic review including textbooks and articles. Experts were asked on this topic to expand the knowledge related to the factors affecting the well-being and occupational health of the sick persons in their relation of professional help. Some elements influencing negatively on the nursing staff's health, the vulnerability to Burnout syndrome, and the significance of self-care were detailed, based on the analytical study of the bibliography consulted. Some other elements exerting a negative influence on the pesonnel's health, such as facing pain, suffering, death, biological risks, and the stress maintained by emergency situations, as well as the role functions, were exposed. These stressing factors turn nurses into a highly vulnerable staff to suffer from physical and psychological affections as professional fatigue or Burnout syndrome. The nursing professionals as defenders of the human being's health should promote in their own person a proper self-care to foster the biopsychosocial well-being to develop a therapeutical personality transmitting and inspiring health.

Keywords : Professional assistance relation; self-care; Burnout syndrome; Nursing..

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