Percepções de profissionais de saúde relativas à infecção hospitalar e às práticas de controle de infecção / Perceptions of health professionals regarding to nosocomial infection

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The objective of this study was to verify the perception of physicians, nurses and auxiliaries or technicians regarding to nosocomial infections and their prevention and control practices. A semi-structured interview was made with eight professionals of each category who work in hospitals in the city of Sao Paulo, with the commission of infection control according to the legal norms. The initial reason of this study was the noncompliance by the healthcare professionals to the main recommendations of CCIH (Center of Nosocomial Infection Control), besides its inefficiency to change their behaviors regarding to those attitudes. It was observed that healthcare professionals acquired in their practice knowledge on nosocomial infection and its prevention, but they have difficulty to incorporate those attitudes in the patient care. They tend to lay the occurrence on the casualty, the inadequate work conditions or look for someone to blame on. There is a rigid hierarchic division of work in the hospitals. The physicians perform the command of therapeutic and diagnostic actions, and they attribute nosocomial infections to the chances, associated to the severity of the patient. The nurses manage the care delivered to the patients. They attribute nosocomial infections to invasive procedures and failures of attention delivered to the patients. The auxiliaries deliver directly the assistance care and relate the infection cases to someone to blame, looking for identifying the professional or the action that led to contamination. Regarding to attitudes toward prevention and control of nosocomial infections, the healthcare professionals recognize that CCIH may be a source of scientific and epidemiological information, which helps them on the professional practice, although the roles are not clearly circumscribed and this generates conflicts or omissions. The physicians emphasize the consultancy to prescribe antibiotics. The nurses stress the scientific basis that is given to their doubts and standardizations. The auxiliaries report the classes given. The main problems mentioned are the deficiency of academic background related to the topic, the difficulty to work with a team, emergency situations, inefficient working board and patient overcrowding. CCIH is perceived as an institution of directory body assessment and it doesnt show the same rigor to propose corrective attitudes to enclose the directory body, as it does with auxiliaries and technicians, mainly in situations of higher infection incidence. CCIH is also seen as an inspection and punishment institution. Although professionals dont have specific academic background in infection control, they acquire it in their practice

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health service management qualitative research administração de serviços de saúde infection control pesquisa qualitativa infecção hospitalar controle de infecções equipe de assistência ao paciente patient care staff cross infection

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