ATUAÇÃO DA EQUIPE DE ENFERMAGEM FRENTE ACIDENTES COM MATERIAIS PERFUROCORTANTES EM UM HOSPITAL ESCOLA

Abstract

Occupational accidents have a high incidence among health professionals due to the numerous occupational risks to which these workers are exposed. According to data from the Ministry of Labor, in Brazil there were 704,136 occupational accidents in 2014, of these 59,080 are related to hospital care.The objective of this study was to characterize the accident with sharps and to portray the nurses’ intervention in face to occupational risks in a teaching hospital. This is an exploratory and retrospective study, conducted in June 2016. Data were collected through the forms of Work Accident Report and interview with nurses. The results indicate that the accidents occurred predominantly with female professionals, since nursing is mostly composed of women; as local, the hands were the hardest hit regions; the period of greatest occurrence of occupational accidents was the morning; lack of notification of all occupational accidents that occur in the institution, as well as ignorance of the Regulatory Standard 32 by theinterviewed professionals. It is concluded that Nursing professionals are daily exposed to occupational risks, especially to biological risks through work and development of care activities, making it essential for professionals to know about Regulatory Standard 32, which can be acquired and improved through continuing education in service, with the objective of reducing risks in the workplace as well as ensuring the safety and health of workers in the development of nursing care practice.

Keywords: Accidents occupational; Occupational risks; Nursing team; Occupational health.