Compreensão da enfermagem sobre sua relação com Infecções relacionadas à saúde na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva

Abstract

Nursing has a fundamental role in relation to infections related to health care, for being closer to patients and for assessing the quality of care provided in the prevention of these infections within the intensive care unit. The objective of this work is to know how the nursing team understands its relationship with health-related infections in the intensive care unit. This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Participated in the study 14 nursing professionals who work in the Intensive Care Unit - adult of the University Hospital Professor Alberto Antunes. The search for data was initially carried out with the collection of information for the characterization of the participants, followed by an individual interview, guided by the question: How do you, as a nursing professional, perceive your relationship with infections related to health care here at the Nursing Unit? Intensive therapy? For the analysis of the testimonies, the technique of content analysis was used, with a thematic approach, proposed by Bardin, which are: pre-analysis, analytical description and treatment of the results. The information analysis process allowed the emergence of thematic categories, facilitating the understanding and the approach due to the complexity of the theme, in addition to responding to the objective proposed in this research. The categories were divided into: the nursing team is intrinsically related to HAIs in the ICU; preventing damage to critically ill patient care; convinced that they must follow the preventive measures for HAIs; realizing the need for continuing education in the ICU; the relevance of the nursing team in the prevention of HAI. Through the statements of nursing professionals, it was noticed that several issues are related to infections, both in relation to the severity in which the patients are, and the level of care provided to these individuals.