Handwashing: the adhesion among nursing professional on post-anesthetic recovery room

Abstract

Despite the importance of hands in the chain of transmission of hospital infections (IH) and the effects of the procedures for hygienisation lowering the rates of infection, many professionals are passive in the face of the problem, while the services take little unique and creative ways to engage professionals in educational campaigns for hygienisation of hands (HM). Quantitative study, carried out from August of 2006 to July of 2007 in a hospital school in Goiânia-GO, which aims to verify the frequency and the technique used to identify the HM between professional nursing team of the SRPA. The results showed that joining the HM was low for all opportunities observed. The categories of procedures in which the professionals least sanitized hands, both before and after the completion of the procedures were: oxygen, maintenance of venous access, monitoring / measurement of SSVV, records of nursing and transportation of the patient. None of the professionals observed held the technique of HM as recommended by the literature. Despite the simplicity and importance, the HM is, and, unfortunately, is still a challenge for drivers of infection, because through this and other studies, there is still resistance of the professionals in it.