Objective: to describe the biological risk related to health care waste management in home care. Methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study that observed 231 home visits. The visits were made by 15 nursing professionals from a municipal home care service. Results: health care waste was generated during the home visits, being 49.5% of group A, 35.0% of group D and 15.5% of group E. Nonconformities were...
This study aimed to identify the perception of nursing auxiliaries and technicians about nursing care systemization (NCS) and the legal aspects of their participation in this process, about the contribution of this method in the organization of care services and the activities they perform. This descriptive study involved 77 professionals at a teaching hospital in the countryside of São Paulo’s state/Brazil, in...
This study aimed to evaluate the adherence of nursing professionals to clinical follow-up after occupational exposure to biological material, in a special outpatient clinic for Occupational Accidents among Health Care Workers (AOPS). Data refer to accidents occurred to nursing professionals between July and December of 2006, and were obtained by consulting patient files. The study was developed in two outpatien...
This descriptive study was carried out at a maternity of a University Hospital in Goiânia-Goiás, Brazil, between April and October of 2003. It aimed to identify the hand microbiota of mothers and health professionals delivering care to newborns. The study population consisted of all active health workers and the mothers receiving care at the service during the study period. From the hands of 31 subjects (15 mot...
This descriptive and exploratory study aimed to characterize nursing professionals from an intensive care unit who were victims of occupational accidents involving biological material, as well as the accidents. Data were collected between May and June of 2007, by means of individual interviews with a semistructured script. Thirty-seven professionals were interviewed, 25 (67.56%) of whom mentioned having been vi...
This is a cross-sectional study whose objective is to identify and describe accidents with biological material as told by nursing professionals in a home care service in a city in the state of São Paulo. Of the 30 subjects who provided that service in the data collection period, 28 agreed to participate and 12 (42.8%) claimed to have suffered at least one accident with biological material while carrying out pro...
FAVRETTO, D. O.; CARVALHO, E. C.; CANINI, S. R. M. S. Intervenções realizadas pelo enfermeiro para melhorar a comunicação com deficientes visuais. Rev. RENE., Fortaleza, v.9, n.3, p. 68-73, jul./set. 2008.; This study aimed to identify which interventions nurses apply to improve communication with visually impaired patients. Twenty-fi ve nurses received a form with 17 activities, to indicate whether they had pe...
This descriptive study evaluated the predisposing factors for the occurrence of Urinary Tract Infection in critically ill patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit. An indicator was used to evaluate the conditions of maintenance of the indwelling vesical catheterization, consisting of five components. Data collection was performed daily during July and August 2007, through direct observation. Of the 471 o...
OBJETIVOS: avaliar os Programas de Controle de Infecção Hospitalar nas instituições hospitalares, quanto aos indicadores de estrutura e processo. MÉTODO: trata-se de um estudo descritivo, exploratório e quantitativo, realizado em 2013. A população foi composta por 13 Programas de Controle de Infecção Hospitalar de serviços de saúde, de uma cidade brasileira do interior paulista. Foram utilizados instrumentos de...
This cross-sectional study, developed at a public teaching hospital with 256 nursing professionals, had the aim to: describe occupational exposure events involving potentially infectious biological material among nursing professionals at a teaching hospital and compare the scores of adherence to Standard Precautions (SP). The first stage of data collection was performed using a form with questions regarding the...