Abstract
This study had as its objective to perceive the importance for nurses of the use of individual protection equipment (IPE)related to biological risks in the work of advanced support in a mobile service of urgency care, and to identify the IPE’s used by nursesin the mobile service of urgency care of the city of Sete Lagoas. The study has a exploratory descriptive nature with qualitative analysisbased in Bardin’s method. The established thematic units were: identifying the biological risks in the pre-hospital care; vulnerability of theprofessionals for the risk of occupational exposition in the pre-hospital attendance; perceiving the importance of the use of individualprotection equipment; the nurse as a link in the promotion of health. Results show that nurses have conscience of the importance ofthe use of IEP’s, but they do not use them duly in their work practice, as is proven in the sample where one sees that 100% of them usegloves, boots and overalls, but only 41.6% use masks and only 16.6% use eyeglasses in all cases they care for.
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