A adesão dos enfermeiros na adopção das medidas de precaução padrão quanto ao uso dos equipamentos de protecção individual

Abstract

Being the subject of this study "The adhesion of nurses in adopting the standard precautions measures regarding the use of Personal protection equipment," which sought to know the reasons for adherence or no adherence to the underlying practices of care providers, revealing in the first instance the reasons for the existence of this project. This was a cross-sectional and descriptive study inserted in a quantitative approach, located in the hospital context, where participants were nurses care providers from all services, which are characterized for being mainly women, with an average age of 35 years, with a university degree and the professional category of graduate nurse and an average of 15 years of professional time. The questionnaire was used as the technique for collecting data, having been developed and tested trough pre-test, and later applied to the population referred to between June and September 2010. Data were submitted to Statistical Package for Social Science (version 17.0) software and subsequent statistical treatment and analysis. The main findings highlighted that: - Almost all nurses (98.9%) reported knowing the standard precautions, this regarding the use of personal protection equipment, but just over half (59.9%) saw it covered in its initial training in the use of standard precautions on the use of personal protection equipment, as well as those who participated in training in this area during the career (63.2%); - The majority (87.4%) considered to have assumed that training increases the adhesion to standard precautions and the use of personal protection equipment; - A high number of nurses has more than 5 years of professional practice (275), and more than half of these (183) reported that adherence to the standard precautions and the use of personal protection equipment has altered greatly over their professional practice but always in a positive sense; - Most (82.5%) assumes to adopt the standard precautions and the use of personal protection equipment in their daily life, but not in the presence of all the patients regardless of their diagnosis (only 48.7%), but according to the level of care provided (84.0%); - The nurses see the gloves, apron and mask equipment more widely used, with the glasses to appear only in 7th place of frequency of use; - The main reasons for joining the standard precautions and the use of personal protection equipment were for personal protection (87.9%), to prevent cross transmission (84.9%) and providing security in carrying out activities (51.4%); - The main reasons for non-adherence to standard precautions and the use of personal protection equipment were the unavailability of personal protection equipment (47.4%), forgetfulness (35%) consider that there is no need (29.5%), not practical (24.2%) and the placement of the personal protection equipment is a time-consuming (19.3%).

Date of Award	Oct 2011
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Amendoeira (Supervisor)