Conhecimento dos profissionais de enfermagem acerca dos acidentes de trabalho com material perfurocortante.

Abstract

The number of needlestick injuries in hospital environments is tremendously and this problem worsens with the number of professionals that their activities o f illness arising from the presence o f agents, the time and intensity between them and agents. Objective: verify the knowledge of nurses Involving sharps. Materials and methods: exploratory and descriptive quantitative and qualitative approach, developed with 94 nurses and nursing tec work at the Regional Hospital Mr Manoel Goncalves de Abrantes (HRS), municipality o f Sousa (PB). Were intentionally selected professionals belonging the institution, in full exercise at the time o f collection, regardless of the sector c expressed a desire to participate in the study after ethical clarification and IC. The data collected in April 2013, through a semi-structured questionnaire using descriptive statistics and content analysis technique. Results: the results 70.2% of the subjects were female, aged between the age group 30-39 years (46 (54.2%), 72.3% are technicians and nursing nurses, 69% had evidence of s 58.5% work in assisting with personal income 1-2 minimum wages (68.1 encoded with operating time 1-10 years (78 , 7%), 5 1% have other employm meet a journey o f 30 hours / week (55.3%) participated in training in the last nurses have adequate knowledge about accidents at work, with 69% of accidents. Needlestick accidents was the kind o f work accident that the most im of the participants. 93.1% of these did not report the accident, therefore, support from the institution. 70% o f participants viewed the risks to pierce cuttiijr the workplace. On the prevention o f this type o f accident, the means most were having more care and attention to perform procedures and use PPE. When subject, the institution can promote training on the use o f materials, 95.7% were consequences that cause accidents and 67% did not know the protocol that ANVISA after needlestick accidents. Conclusion: from these results, we needlestick injuries are a public health problem, the need to strengthen that reduce these occurrences, emphasize the importance of reporting as fac: enable the institution to prepare ahead an unexpected event with this. dsals preventive Keywords: Nursing work. Exposure to Biological Agents. Penetrating injuries needle. Health worker. is growing deviate from of contact abbut accidents study with inicians who lbcated in the to the staff of activity and combletion o f the analyzed revealed that 8%), married specialization, ft), 34% are nts, (63.8%) years. The never had paired 24.5% not receive g accident in frequently cited ooking at the aware o f the with the ;an say that measures essential to