The mental health of nurses who are women and mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OBJECTIVE: To reflect on the mental health of nurses who are women and mothers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Theoretical-reflective study based on scientific literature, supported by national and international scientific literature, in addition to a critical analysis by the authors. RESULTS: Reflections on the subject go beyond the impact of motherhood on these women's lives, as it portrays a gender issue and the role of women within society. The stress of working on the frontlines of a pandemic, added to the demands of children and housework, can trigger exhaustion and mental health repercussions. CONCLUSION: Workers must seek individual measures and health managers must enable collective strategies in the work environment of the institutions, proposing public policies that make both employers, workers and their families co-responsible.

One year of pandemic: how is the mental health of nursing professionals?

OBJECTIVE: To reflect on the mental health of nursing professionals one year after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. METHOD: Theoretical-reflective study based on evidence found in national and international scientific literature, on the discursive elaboration on the theme and including the authors' perception and critical analysis. RESULTS: After one year facing the pandemic, nursing professionals experienced a worsening of their mental health, given the persistence and also the deterioration of the health system scenario, high risk of contamination and repercussions of the disease in professional and personal lives. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Managers of health institutions are supposed to be sensitive to and understand the psychological distress faced, or to be faced, by nursing workers, by providing spaces for dialogue aimed to improve and maintain the mental health of these workers.

Nursing and mental health: a reflection in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

OBJECTIVE: To reflect on the mental health of Nursing professionals in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. METHOD: This is a theoretical-reflective study based on the discursive formulation on the theme and supported by the national and international scientific literature and by the authors' critical analysis. RESULTS: The analyzed studies, along with the care practice, showed that Nursing professionals are susceptible to the exacerbation of symptoms such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, anguish, and stress in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, in view of their exhaustive work shifts, patients' deaths, risk of infecting themselves and their families, and social isolation. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The mental health of Nursing professionals needs to be listed as one of the priorities for health managers, guaranteeing strategies and public policies that ensure sanity for those who are in the front line of the fight against the pandemic.