Overcrowded units, lack of equipment, and beds for hospitalization, are problems in the organization of work that impacted the health of the teams in this pandemic context. Work intensification was revealed as one of the main characteristics of this process, especially regarding health care activities at the various levels of care. The patient care services underwent abrupt organizational and environmental changes, culminating in modification of their routines. ( 3) There is an urgent need to monitor these groups with greater potential for illness, based on the actions of specific sectors, such as the frontline of health care. Contamination and illness of professionals involved in patient care are realities in the pandemic, including the record of 364 deaths of healthcare workers due to this infection up to the 49 th epidemiological week of 2020, in Brazil. ( 1, 2) It brought repercussions not only to people affected by the disease, but also to healthcare workers responsible for their care. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global state of emergency due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a rapidly spreading etiologic agent that causes severe disease.