Abstract
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the compliance with Standard Precautions by nursing professionals from high complexity units. Methods: Quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, carried out in a Brazilian public hospital between January and March 2017. Data collection was performed through the application of an instrument with demographic and professional variables and the Brazilian version of Compliance with Standard Precautions Scale (CSPS-PB). Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with IBM SPSS® software. Results: A total of 148 professionals participated. The rate of compliance with SP was 65.0%. There was a statistically significant difference only in relation to the professional category (p<0.001). Conclusion and implications for practice: Compliance with SP by nursing professionals was lower than expected and there was association of compliance with SP mean scores only for professional category. These results may contribute to direct strategies to encourage adherence to SP, improving the safety of professionals and patients.
Highlights
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is considered to be the most traumatic, tense and aggressive due to the dynamics, complexity and specialty of the sector’s work routine and occupational risks
Conclusion and implications for practice: Compliance with Standard Precautions (SP) by nursing professionals was lower than expected and there was association of compliance with SP mean scores only for professional category. These results may contribute to direct strategies to encourage adherence to SP, improving the safety of professionals and patients
Considering that the nursing team is mostly composed of technicians and assistants (77.0%) and most of the participants, young people, which corroborates with the literature.[10,11,12,13]
Summary
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is considered to be the most traumatic, tense and aggressive due to the dynamics, complexity and specialty of the sector’s work routine and occupational risks. Among the professionals of these units, the nursing team is constantly exposed to occupational hazards, mainly the biological one.[1,2,3]. Nursing care for critically ill patients in the ICU or in the Emergency Room (ER) requires the maximum of professionals in the intense routine of care, demanding of the professional, a high degree of attention, skill, and agility in the execution of care and use of resources, with constant monitoring of patients, which contributes to the risk of accidents.[1,2]. With a view to reducing accidents with biological material, it is important to adhere to preventive measures, such as Standard Precautions (SP).[3,4,5] SP have been established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and adopted worldwide and are intended to protect health care professionals and ensure safe patient care, preventing infections in the provision of care.[4,5]
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