Volume 20 No 13 (2022)
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Working Conditions Of The Nursing Professional, Its Influence OnThe Quality Of Care In Times Of Covid-19 In A Hospital In Ecuador
Esthela Guerrero , Lourdes Paucar , Aracely Paredes
Abstract
Nursing professionals constitute the most important workforce in the health system as caremanagers, since the
beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic they have worked in the first line of care demonstrating quality of care,
vocation, commitment and courage to exercise their profession despite the risks, discrimination, deterioration of
their physical, mental and emotional health to which theyhave been exposed.
Objective: to identify the working conditions of professional nurses, their influenceon the quality of care in times
of COVID-19.
Methodology Type of study: descriptive, correlational-transversal; population 40 nursing professionals and 40
patients from Hospital León BecerraCamacho,IIlevel of care with referral for COVID-19 patients; Two instruments
were applied: Survey"Nursing professional working conditions" with a reliability of Cronbach's Alpha 0.878; the
survey“Quality of care” with a reliability of 0.867.
Results: 82.5% of nursing professionals have regularworking conditions, 17.5% have good working conditions;
in quality of care 85% of patients receivevery good quality of care, 15% good quality of care; For the correlation
of the variables, the ChiSquare test was used, obtaining a p-value = 0.677, which indicates that the working
conditions ofnursing professionals are independent of the quality of care. Conclusion: There is no relationship
between the working conditions nursing professional and the quality of care in times of COVID-19
Keywords
quality, working conditions, coronavirus, care managers, patients.
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