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Given the responsibilities based on skills that is difficult to objectify. Nursing is generally perceived as stressful and tiring. Fatigue, even in its physical dimension, is often associated with relationship to the patient: for example, back pain is much linked to the feeling of not being able to maintain good relationships with patients.

It is known that fatigue is difficult to describe and, in trying to do, people expressed in various ways, using terms such as tired, weak, exhausted, tired, tired, heavy or slow. The health professionals also struggle to describe fatigue, using terms such as fatigue, lassitude, prostration, exercise intolerance usually fatigue can be defined as a disorder characterized by distress and decreased performance associated with reduced energy. The specific manifestations can be physical, mental or emotional. Fatigue is a feeling of tiredness that does not disappear when resting. It's a feeling of lack of energy, exhaustion or fatigue (Donahue, 2010).

In many cases, these factors lead quickly to accidents, so it is advisable to avoid muscle fatigue. This can be done if you understand how it arises, so that work is designed to prevent the factors that induce. To analyze the fatigue, one of the tools used is the method Corlett “Bishop, a study that shows the degree of discomfort, pain that occurs in different parts of the body. Another tool is the method used which is a questionnaire that determines the frequency of fatigue to which is exposed to the nurse. It also applies 4-point scale of Luke, which shows the level of fatigue suffered by nurses.

To achieve the research surveyed the 27 nurses' part of clinic staff who had considered fatigue symptoms. It is known that in the IMSS, the nurses have a heavy burden working as the number of patients is rising in relation to staff developed a questionnaire to determine what degree of fatigue is presented.

At the beginning of the research assistant visited the clinic to show the trial protocol to be performed. Answered our request and responded favorably talking to the head nurse to join us and support during the study, this in turn presented us with nurses explaining why the study, all respondents cooperated kindly One of the benchmarks that take into account were the breaks in their working hours and who were asked how they felt after breaks, if they think they need more time or number breaks. Fatigue on nurses was evaluated subjectively, with the scale of points were considered fatigue levels after a normal day.

CNA asserts that factors of the health system today contribute to fatigue of nurses. These factors include the increased stress imposed on workers, the increase in the workload, staff expectations of rising patient and their family members, higher acuity needs patients, unforeseen emergencies in staffing or patients, sensory overload, travail disruption in the workplace on the functional and the inexorable nature of change at work (Figley, 2009).

Research shows that fatigue of nurses in particular have led to the following consequences: it reduces ...