Abstract

ALMEIDA, Marisa Raquel Rosete; LOBAO, Catarina Alexandra Rodrigues Faria  and  COELHO, Adriana Raquel Neves. Emotional Management Strategies in Prehospital Nurses: Scoping Review Protocol. NTQR [online]. 2023, vol.18, e829.  Epub Feb 01, 2024. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.18.2024.e829.

Introduction: The pre-hospital context is complex and unpredictable, establishing a work environment in which nurses are daily exposed to psychologically exhausting situations and/or traumatic experiences. Health professionals deal with the nursing care in this context of unpredictability in different ways. With this in mind, it is important to know which emotional management strategies are used by nurses who provide care in this context, since these are scattered in the literature. Objective: The aim of this study is to map the emotional management strategies used by nurses in pre-hospital care, starting from the research question: “What are the emotional management strategies used by nurses in pre-hospital care?”. Methods: This is a scoping review based on the methodology proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute. The search will be carried out in MEDLINE (via PubMed) and CINAHL Complete (via EBSCOhost) and also in Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP). The research strategy was based on the PCC mnemonic. Nurses will be considered as a population, emotional management strategies as a concept and pre-hospital as a context. Written studies in Portuguese, English and Spanish will be included; and of all types: quantitative, qualitative, mixed and literature reviews. Results: The results will be presented in the form of a table and narrative summary. Here, will be presented the emotional management strategies used by nurses in pre-hospital care and the characteristics and the experiences that led to their use will be identified. Conclusion: The mapping of emotional management strategies used by nurses in the pre-hospital setting will contribute to the dissemination of available evidence and will become a starting point for the perception of the impact on their emotional well-being and on their personal and professional performance.

Keywords : Nurses; Emotional adjustment; Emotional Regulation; Prehospital Care.

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