Abstract:Objective: to characterize the occupational accidents in the practice of nursing in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a university hospital. Method: this is about a descriptive study from quantitative approach. For data collection was used to form structured sample of 180 nursing staff who signed the terms of consent and notification forms to query the Department of Engineering and Safety of hospital in 2006. Data were stored and analyzed statistically by the software Microsoft Excel 2003, after approval by the… Show more
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