RESUMOObjetivo: verifi car os fatores associados e o nível de adesão às precauções padrão dos profi ssionais de enfermagem do setor de clínica médica de um hospital de ensino. Método: estudo quantitativo, transversal, analítico, realizado com 54 profi ssionais de enfermagem, por meio da aplicação da Escala Psicométrica de Adesão às Precauções Padrão, traduzida e validada para o português do Brasil. Resultados: o escore global de adesão foi intermediário (4,41); não houve correlação estatisticamente signifi cativa entre adesão e categoria profi ssional (p=0,404) e com o tempo de exercício profi ssional (p= 0,612). Verifi cou-se correlação do item Lava as mãos após a retirada de luvas descartáveis (p=0,026) com profi ssionais com tempo de trabalho, na área, superior a 10 anos. Conclusão: a adesão às medidas de precaução padrão pela equipe de enfermagem foi intermediária, não tendo diferença estatisticamente signifi cativa em relação à categoria profi ssional e ao tempo de exercício profi ssional. Descritores: Precauções Universais; Equipe de Enfermagem; Exposição a Agentes Biológicos; Riscos Ocupacionais; Equipamento de Proteção Individual. RESUMENObjetivo: verifi car los factores asociados y el nivel de adhesión a precauciones estándar en profesionales de enfermería del sector de clínica médica de un hospital de enseñanza. Método: estudio cuantitativo, transversal, analítico, realizado con 54 profesionales de enfermería, a través de la aplicación de la Escala Psicométrica de Adhesión a las Precauciones Estándar, traducida y validada al portugués brasileño. Resultados: el puntaje global de adhesión fue intermedio (4,41); no hubo correlación estadísticamente signifi cativa entre adhesión y categoría profesional (p=0,404) ni con tiempo de ejercicio profesional (p=0,612). Se verifi có correlación del ítem Lava sus manos luego de quitarse los guantes descartables (p=0,026) en profesionales con tiempo de Rev Bras Enferm [Internet]. 2017 jan-fev;70(1):90-7. 91Adherence to standard precautions in a teaching hospital Ferreira LA, et al. INTRODUCTIONHealth professionals are constantly exposed to risks in their workplace environment, which may have a direct impact on health conditions. Among these professionals, nursing team members are subjected to high-level occupational risks, especially exposure to biological materials. This is related to the direct and indirect support they provide to patients and types and frequency of procedures they perform, exposing them microorganisms present in blood and organic fluids (1)(2) . Regarding biological risks, infections of higher epidemiological relevance are those caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -which causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) -and hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) (3) . Estimates indicate that around 400 million people, or 5.7% of the world population, have HBV and 180 million have HCV. In addition, by 2012, HIV had infected about 40 million people (4) . When the prevalence of AIDS and hepatitis increases, the risk of occupational contamina...
Ambivalent sexism theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996) distinguishes between two interrelated forms of sexism: Hostile and benevolent. Although this theory motivated a large body of work examining how endorsement of these views impacts on social interactions and women’s performance, no research has yet examined what these forms of sexism are seen to communicate about men and women. We report three studies examining the image that benevolent and hostile sexist messages are seen to describe (Studies 1 and 2) and prescribe for men and women (Study 3). Results show that both benevolent and hostile sexism were seen to convey that women are and should be less competent than men. Additionally, benevolent sexism was seen as describing and prescribing women to be warmer than did hostile sexism. Across all studies men and women agreed about what the messages communicate about men and women. We discuss the implications of these results for the understanding of how stereotypical beliefs are perpetuated.
Evaluate the patient safety climate from the perspective of the health team members at a medium-sized private hospital in a city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil and check for relations between the sociodemographic variables and the safety climate scores. This is a descriptive, exploratory and correlational study, conducted with 123 health professionals, with approval from the Research Ethics Committee. Data were collected using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. For analysis, we used Student's t-test, analysis of variance and Spearman's correlation (α = 0.05). The general score on the instrument was 67.50. The best domain score was found for job satisfaction (82.79) and the lowest for perceived management (58.90) and working conditions (59.58). No differences were found between the sexes, education level, presence of other employment or professional activities. The safety climate scores observed were lower than the scores recommended in the literature.
Objectives:To identify the presence of occupational stress in nursing professionals of a university hospital in the inlands of the state of Minas Gerais and examine influence of sociodemographic and occupational characteristics in this disease. Methods: Cross-sectional, exploratory and quantitative study with 124 professional nurses from a university hospital in the inlands of the state of Minas Gerais. The adapted and validated Portuguese version of the Job Stress Scale (JSS) was used for the performance of the study. Results: Most professionals were women (87.9%) with a mean age of 40.2 years, 80.6% were nursing technicians and 71.8% of the sample had some degree of exposure to occupational stress. Conclusions: The occupational stress index was higher than that observed in previous studies. Data obtained in the study point to the need to implement institutional measures for the prevention of occupational stress, especially by strengthening social support at work.
Two studies examined the effect of exposure to sexism on implicit gender bias, focusing specifically on stereotypes of men as competent and women as warm. Male and female participants were exposed to sexism or no sexism. In both Experiment 1 (Implicit Association Task; N = 115) and Experiment 2 (Go/No-go Association Task; N = 167), women who had been exposed to sexist beliefs demonstrated less implicit gender stereotype bias relative to women who were not exposed to sexism. In contrast, exposure to sexism did not influence men's implicit gender stereotype bias. In Experiment 2, process modelling revealed that women's reduction in bias in response to sexism was related to increased accuracy orientation and a tendency to make warmth versus competence judgments. The implications of these findings for current understandings of sexism and its effects on gender stereotypes are discussed.
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