Os sentimentos vivenciados após exposição ocupacional entre trabalhadores de saúde: fulcro para repensar o trabalho em instituições de saúde

Abstract

This study aimed at capturing the psychosocial feelings and perceptions health workers face after accidents with biological material, identifying the difficulties to accomplish the follow-up. This qualitative research with intentional sample of 15 health workers was carried out. The fear was the first expressed feeling. The fear the health worker feels is related to his/her attributions, potentiates the development of stressing situations in work setting and trigger psychic suffering. The feeling of anger and outbreak appear in the discourses face the workers' indignity. Another feeling is guilty for triggering the accident. This finding allows recommending organizational restructuring proposals as well as in the behavior of workers in the dynamics of work.

Occupational exposure to contaminated biological material: perceptions and feelings experienced among dental students

“…The reasons pointed out for non-notification were perception of the low risk of contamination -because they knew the patient, or because it was a child -and the perception that care in the reference unit took a long time: These results are in agreement with the literature, seeing that there have been low rates of notification of the occurrence of accidents with biologic material 2,18 .…”

“…A previous study verified that the biologic risk generated fear and anguish among professionals whether they had suffered accidents or not 17 . The literature shows that in the first moment, the attentions are centered on a possible contamination with HIV, HVB and HVC viruses 18 .…”

“…Therefore, many of these students who were accident victims decided on continuing with caring for the patient and not registering the notification. Although the literature shows that work accidents with blood and oral fluids trigger a process of reflex-action in exposed workers, leading to a profound view of their understanding with respect to work accidents 18 , there are other individuals who play down the severity of such accidents, because they are not really aware of the risks involved 9 . This disdain can be observed in the present study, in situations such as a small cut reported, having confidence in the source-patient's anamnesis, or the fact of the patient being a child.…”

Intervening factors in attention flow of professionals injured by biological material

“…In this context, it is necessary to develop actions towards the improvement of those conditions and organize the work to prevent accidents with biological material (17,19) , the organizational, material, structural, behavioral and human resources restructuration are essential to reduce the risks involved in the health work dynamics (11,20) . To assess those organizational variables that compose the work process routine is an important strategy to identify preventive measures to be implemented to modify this reality (21) .…”

Acidente com material perfurocortante entre profissionais de enfermagem de um hospital universitário

“…Dado divergente de estudo similar em que o medo foi relacionado à "represália" da chefia e ao risco de perder o emprego, ficando o medo de adoecer em segundo plano (19) . Esse mesmo estudo corrobora nossos achados referentes aos sentimentos de preocupação e angústia vivenciados pelos trabalhadores, relacionando-os diretamente à esfera familiar e social.…”