Handwashing, Higher education, Infection control, Nursing students / Avaliação da técnica de lavagem das mãos executada por alunos do curso de graduação em enfermagem

AUTOR(ES)

Carla Cristiane Paz Felix

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Handwashing is known as one of the most important measures in preventing hospital-acquired Infections. This study had the objective of comparing the performance and verifying the adhesion of students from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of the Graduation nursing course to the steps of this technique. The sample was made of 113 students who were under the internship program in health institutions in the city of Sao Paulo. The data were collected through unobtrusive observation based on an instrument in a check-list form with all the steps of the hands-washing technique, as suggested by the Brazilian Health Ministry. The results were statistically treated showing that: a) the students from the 2nd and 3rd years had better results in the execution of the handwashing technique, with a significant statistical difference, when compared to the students from the 4th year considering the steps: “jewelry-removing”, “rubbed the palm of the hand with its back”, ”rubbed spaces between fingers”, “rubbed thumb” and “rubbed nails”. Considering the item “closing the faucet with a paper towel” the students from the 4th year were better than the ones from the second and third years; b) the students from all years of graduation the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years showed low adhesion to the hands-washing technique steps, once they presented the adhesion to less than 50% of the steps; c) The percentage of students who performed ALL THE STEPS of the handwashing technique CORRECTLY was very low, only 8.8%. It was concluded that the students from the 4th years in almost all had the worst performance and the lowest adhesion to the hands-washing technique when compared to the students from the 2nd and 3rd years

ASSUNTO(S)

lavagem de mãos ensino superior estudantes de enfermagem evaluation of the hands-washing technique held by students from the nursing graduation course controle de infecção

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