GABRIEL, Isaiane de Sousa.
Abstract:
Hospital infection is any infectious complication related to the assistance provided in the
hospital, in which the most common is the urinary tract infection, related to the indwelling
catheters, it is consisted as a serious worldwide public health problem and patients admitted to
the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are submitted to a greater risk due to the severity of the clinical
and frequent invasive procedures. The research aims primordially to investigate the
knowledge of nursing professionals about the risks of infection caused by Indwelling
Catheter (IC) in ICU patients and to identify the change and maintenance routines of the
same, and to verify the knowledge of members of the nursing staff about the signs and
symptoms that lead them to suspect such infections, and to ascertain preventive care. This is a
type exploratory and descriptive research with quantitative approach, the research sample
consisted of 24 nurses, in which are 06 nurses and 18 nursing technicians, who answered the
inclusion and exclusion criteria previously established; as collection instrument it was used a
semi-structured questionnaire with 13 questions to meet the proposed objectives. The results
allowed to observe that nursing professionals have the knowledge about hospital infections
caused by IC in ICU patients, however they point out that training through courses and
training can be an important alternative to prevent hospital infection from IC. The interaction
between the health team and the patient allows promotion, prevention and control of hospital
infections, thus reducing the infection rate. It's up to the nurses reflect on their actions and
attitudes in contact with the catheterized patients who contracted some hospital infection.
