80 - ACCIDENTS AT WORK WITH PERFORATING-CUTTING INSTRUMENTS IN A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NATAL / RN.

Authors

  • Ana Elza Oliveira de Mendonça
  • Maria Gorete Benassuly de Melo
  • Rodrigo Assis Neves Dantas
  • Daniele Vieira Dantas
  • Gilson de Vasconcelos Torres

Keywords:

Biohazard, Accidents at work, nursing

Abstract

The hospital environment offers risks of accidents and illnesses to workers. In this view and in order to know the reality of accidents with perforating-cutting instruments in a university hospital in Natal / RN, we aimed to characterize the accidents with cutting and piercing material recorded in a general hospital in Natal / RN, period set 2006 to set/2008, by labor sector and year of occurrence; identify the professional category that was most affected by accidents with perforating-cutting instruments, as recorded by HICC; and to identify the professional category, among those which made use of PPE's, most affected by accidents with perforating-cutting instruments in a general hospital in Natal / RN. This is an exploratory-descriptive study with retrospective data and quantitative approach. Results were: the units (wards) represented the hospital sector where most accidents occurred of biological type (55.4%); the year of 2007 (30.4%) as the one with most detected accidents; practical nursing staff (82.1%) were the professional category more victimized, and nursing technicians as to the ones who had the highest number of accidents, even among those who made use of PPE's.

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TRABALHOS PUBLICADOS

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80 - ACCIDENTS AT WORK WITH PERFORATING-CUTTING INSTRUMENTS IN A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NATAL / RN. (2011). Fiep Bulletin - Online, 80(2). https://ojs.fiepbulletin.net/fiepbulletin/article/view/1660