Abstract

This cross sectional study is a correlational research whose principal objective was determinating the presence of chronic labour stress or burnout and its probably relationships with labour and social factors of nursing professionals working in Emergency Rooms and UMAS (Urgency Medical Atention Service) at the Eighth Region of Chile. We work with the total universe constituted by ninety-one nursing professionals: fifty-seven nurses or male nurses of emergency unities and thirty-four of UMAS. We utilized two intruments to collect the information. The first one was made by the author, and their purposes were collecting information about socio-demographical, and labors variables. The second questionnaire correspond to the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) that measures emotional tiredness, dispersonalization, and professional fullfiment between nursing professionals as an outcome of stress at the working conditions. The most outstanding results of this study showed that more than 50% of nursing professional working in the crash unity are single young-adults, without children, and having not more than 10 years of work experience; most of them often working on night-turn. These ER and UMAS group of nursing professionals displayed middle-intensity burnout; the principal influence acting on this illness coming from work variables, like the perception of insufficient resources in the unities and the excess of night turns; The older group showed more emotional tiredness while separated and widowers professional presented less depersonalization than the rest of these professionals.