Mental Health Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Healthcare Workers in Four Latin American Countries.

The aim of the study was to assess the mental health burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in healthcare workers in four Latin American countries in 2020.An online survey was carried out with 1721 participants from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico in 2020. A non-probabilistic convenience sampling method was used to recruit voluntary participants. Post-traumatic stress symptoms were assessed with the SPRINT-E scale, Perceived Discrimination was assessed with a Spanish version of the scale developed by Molero, and anxiety toward death was assessed with the Spanish version of the Templer scale. All instruments were assessed for internal consistency.The overall frequency of post-traumatic stress symptoms was 23.9%. The frequency by countries was 26.4% in Argentina, 29.8% in Chile, 19.9 in Colombia, and 23.8% in Mexico. Post-traumatic stress symptoms were associated with individual subtle discrimination, anxiety toward the death of the elderly, lack of Personal Protective Equipment, and exposition to the death.The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a mental health burden on health workers in the countries included in the study, not only due to the implications of the disease in the face of exposure to death, but also due to institutional conditions and in which they carry out their work.

Factores que determinan la implementación del registro de enfermeria informatizado / Factors that determine the implementation of computarized nursing registries

Los registros de enfermeria se definen como el soporte documental donde queda recogida toda la información sobre la actividad enfermera referente a una persona, valoración, tratamiento recibido, y evolución, su finalidad asistencial, investigadora y docente esta comprobado que la informatización ha mejorado de manera notable su calidad, disminuyendo tiempos y estandarizando conceptos. El registro constituye una responsabilidad legal que actualmente debe adaptarse del soporte papel al informático, cuesta la transformación a la realidad tecnologica ya que los registros manuscritos siguen vigentes, mas alla de los avances informaticos.

Factores que determinan la implementación del registro de enfermeria informatizado / Factors that determine the implementation of computarized nursing registries

Los registros de enfermeria se definen como el soporte documental donde queda recogida toda la información sobre la actividad enfermera referente a una persona, valoración, tratamiento recibido, y evolución, su finalidad asistencial, investigadora y docente esta comprobado que la informatización ha mejorado de manera notable su calidad, disminuyendo tiempos y estandarizando conceptos. El registro constituye una responsabilidad legal que actualmente debe adaptarse del soporte papel al informático, cuesta la transformación a la realidad tecnologica ya que los registros manuscritos siguen vigentes, mas alla de los avances informaticos.(AU)