Percutaneous injuries correlates in the nursing team of a Brazilian tertiary-care university hospital

Abstract

Canini SRMS, Moraes SA, Gir E, Freitas ICM. Percutaneous injuries correlates in the nursing team of a brazilian tertiary-care university hospital. Rev Latino-am Enfermagem 2008 setembro-outubro; 16(5):818-23. (OR 10.19;) and "previous percutaneous injuries" (OR 3.14; The study aims to identify percutaneous injuries correlates in the nursing team from a Brazilian tertiary-

Safety of nursing staff and determinants of adherence to personal protective equipment

“…Nursing professionals who self-assess the risk of percutaneous accidents as low or medium in their work environment face a greater chance of experiencing an accident in comparison with those who assess the risk as high (12) .…”

Under-Reporting of Accidents Involving Biological Material by Nursing Professionals at a Brazilian Emergency Hospital

“…involve biological material. A study of risk factors for the occurrence of percutaneous accidents in the nursing team identified higher chances of accidents among nursing workers who assessed the risk of suffering percutaneous accidents at their workplace as low than among those who assessed it as high [18]. Health professionals' underestimation of the risk of bloodborne pathogen transmission has been reported in different studies as a motive for accident under-reporting [4,14,16,19].…”

Estudo de aspectos profissionais e psicossociais no trabalho e a depressão em enfermeiros atuantes em ambiente hospitalar

“…Ylipaavalniemi (2005), Araújo et al (2003), Batista e Bianchi (2006), Elias e Navarro (2006), Schmidt e Dantas (2006), Secco, (2006), Canini et al (2008), Kawano (2008) …”