Burnout y percepción del clima ético entre los trabajadores de enfermería de la unidad de cuidados intensivos Covid-19 y la organización del trabajo

Burnout is a chronic occupational disease that mainly affects people who work with people, it can be associated with the ethical climate (EC), which is a constituent of the organizational climate at work and addresses the collective perception of professionals about the meaning and treatment of ethical issues. in an institution. This study aimed to analyze the association between burnout and ethical climate, as well as its relationship with the relationships in the organization of work in intensive care units (ICU) - covid-19 of university hospitals (HU), in the perception of nursing professionals and managers of these units that acted during the pandemic. This is a mixed study carried out in three HU linked to the Empresa Brasileira de Serviços Hospitalares (EBSERH) in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil. Data production was designed through a cross-sectional study, with 110 nursing professionals, from December 2021 to March 2022, followed by an exploratory-descriptive study, with six managers of these units from May to July 2022 In the research protocol, the quantitative stage consisted of a questionnaire with sociodemographic and occupational variables; the Maslach Burnout Inventury (MBI) version HSS (Human Services Survey) and the Hospital Ethical Climate Survey_Versão Brasileira (HECS-VB), validated for use in Brazil. In the qualitative stage, a semi-structured interview script was used as an instrument to extract the results of the interviews carried out with the managers of the HU covid-19 ICU. The questions used were designed according to the significant statistical associations (p