Condutas dos profissionais de enfermagem de um hospital especializado em oncologia que sofreram exposição a material biológico. / Conduct of nursing professionals from a specialized oncology hospital who were exposed to biological material

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

26/06/2012

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Introduction: occupational accidents involving biological material are a concern for the health institutions, since it can cause serious damage to the health of professionals. The nursing team has been most affected by such accidents, thus preventive measures are essential to mi nimize the risk of seroconversion to bloodborne pathogens. Objective: to evaluate the conducts reported by nursing professionals, who were exposed to biologic al material, relating to notification of the accident through the COA and the demand for specialized clinical care. Materials and Methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted in a specialized oncology hospital in the interior of São Paulo State, approved by the Research Ethics Committee of that institution. At the time of data collec tion, 518 nursing professionals worked in the hospital; 51 refused to participate and 26 had work leave, so the population was composed of 44 1 professionals who accept ed to participate in the study by signing the consent form. Data we re collected through individual interviews performed in the workplace from 01/01/2011 to 30/06/2011, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, through the Statistica l Package for the Social Sciences, version 17.0. Results: of the 441 subjects interviewed, 82 reported having suffered 127 accidents with biological material in the tw elve months preceding the interview date. It is highlighted that 57.3% of the injur ed professionals made the right conduct, i.e., reported the accident through the Communication of Occupational Accidents (COA) and sought specialized clinical care; how ever 42.7% did not adopted any conduct after the accident. Regarding the reasons given by nursing staff for not reporting the accident through the COA and not seek specialized clinical care, the most frequent were they did not consider it important to report, underestimating the risk of accident (72.1%). Conclusion: this study identified the prev alence of the underreporting of accidents with biological material by the nursing staff and also the main reasons given by the professionals who have not adopted the conduct recommended by the institution. It is believed that these resu lts may contribute to the development and implementation of measures to incr ease adherence to post-exposure conduct and thus to improve the safety of professionals.

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acidentes de trabalho condutas terapêuticas equipe de enfermagem exposição a agentes biológicos exposure to biological material notificação de acidentes de trabalho nursing team occupational accidents occupational accidents registry therapeutical aproaches

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