Riscos biológicos envolvendo profissionais de enfermagem em um hospital público do sertão da Paraíba.

Abstract

Currently, the occupational accidents with biological material represents an impact to the health facilities by means of the regularity with which they occur. In 2005 the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), created the Regulatory Standard 32 (NR-32), through decree No. 485, three years after a new ordinance was published, No. 939, 2008, looking for an improvement in professional's safety, promoting a reduction in the events of accidents. This study aims to verify the occurrence of accidents within nursing professionals; looking for describe the main types of expositions and situations where the accidents occurred, and examine which measures are adopted by professional after accident. This is a transversal study with quantitative approach. In this study, participated female nurses professionals working in a Regional Hospital in the interior of Paraíba. For the data collection it was employed a questionnaire with objective questions in accordance with the objectives formulated for such research. This study was the result of an extraction of a part of the research of the Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation Scholarships (PIBIC) entitled Vaccine and Serologic Profile For Hepatitis B workers of hospital care, which followed all the items in Resolution 466 / 12 of the National Health Council (CNS), which regulates research with human beings. As for the results, it was found that the nurses suffered most accidents with biological material were the nursing assistants, with the age group 31-61 years as the most prevalence, getting a percentage of 21.6% of cases; the body part of the professional more exposed occurred to be the skin part, being aged from 31 to 40 years, for a total of 13.3%; the instruments that caused more accidents were the syringe with hypodermic needle and scalp with a total of 11.6% of all accidents are more frequent between the ages of 31 to 40 years; about 41% of the professionals of the cases reported having suffered at least one episode of accident with biological material; the conduct titled: None, I was found with complete vaccination has been adopted by more professionals getting a percentage of 16.6%. So we can conclude that the main working accidents occurred mostly with nursing assistants. Facing with the above results we have seen that it is of fundamental importance the implementation of continuing education and qualification of these professionals, with emphasis on the correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the protection of patients, but also of health professionals.