Professional Exhaustion and Alternative Practices in Primary Care Nurses

INTERVENTION: E02.190.204 The intervention group consists of 7 nurses diagnosed with Moderate or Severe Burnout Syndrome through the Burnout Characterization Scale, which will perform 12 sessions of auriculotherapy using specific points of action (Anxiety), points of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Liver, Spleen / Pancreas and Heart), points of the Nervous System (Shem Men and Sympathetic) and points of the Endocrine System (Adrenal) The control group is composed of 4 nurses without Professional Exhaustion. CONDITION: Burnout Syndrome ; C24.198 C24.198 PRIMARY OUTCOME: Control and reduction of moderate or severe levels of Burnout Syndrome in diagnosed nurses, verified by the analysis of salivary cortisol by the competitive ELISA technique and by comparing levels of salivary cortisol collected before the intervention and after the intervention (auriculoterapia). The variation of cortisol should be at least 5% between the measurements before and after intervention. SECONDARY OUTCOME: Secondary outcomes are not expected INCLUSION CRITERIA: Nurses with a minimum of one year of professional work in the same health unit of Primary Care; nurses without a double professional relationship; nurses diagnosed with Burnout Syndrome