Conhecimento dos profissionais de enfermagem sobre os riscos de infecção hospitalar através do cateter vesical de demora.

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.