Conhecimento e adesão dos profissionais da enfermagem sobre as estratégias de controle da infecção hospitalar (IH) em hospital público do semiárido paraibano.

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Infection Hospital (IH) is defined as the infection acquired in the hospital for a patient who was hospitalized for another reason than this infection; or an infection that occurs in a client admitted in a hospital, or other health care institution, and who was not present, nor in the incubator, at the time of admission. Thus, the present study aimed to analyze the knowledge and support of nursing professionals who work in the ICU on the strategies for prevention and control of IH, identify the factors that interfere in this membership and encourage, through the knowledge generated by this work, more effective strategies to adherence of nursing professionals to control practices of IH. The research was developed at the Regional Hospital's ICU Dept. Manoel Gonçalves Abrantes, Sousa - PB. A semi structured questionnaire was used in exploratory studies, quantitative approach where the sample consisted of 20 nursing professionals, Nurses and 04 nursing e 16 nursing Technicians. We observe that the nursing professionals of the institution concerned, in General, has an even "limited" knowledge about the problem of IH. With respect to compliance with respect to compliance with preventive measures and control of IH, we saw that the institution contributes positively to the optimization of these measures, although presenting some flaws, but that can be easily remedied. Thus, it was evidenced that the little adherence to these measures relate more to own professionals, either by not knowing the real reasons to perform it or by mere resistance. We realize the need to: realization of microbiological ICU mapping in order to identify the pathogens involved and prevent the IH in this sector with more property; continuing education of professionals by implementing more effective strategies, either through training or training in order to improve the knowledge of the team and therefore increase the membership of this category of measures of prevention and control.