Acidentes de trabalho com a equipe de enfermagem de um Serviço de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência (SAMU)

Abstract

The nursing staff of the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) acts in different situations, which require a lot of skill and manual dexterity, need to be alert all the time, because any carelessness can cause an accident at work, which can bring many consequences to worker health even lead to death. This is a character study of descriptive, exploratory and quantitative approach that aims to identify accidents involving the nursing staff of the SAMU de Santo Antônio de Jesus (SAJ). A structured objective and subjective questions questionnaire was administered. The population was composed of 16 professionals, 10 technicians, 06 nurses and nursing. It was observed that the predominant age group was between 31 and 40 years, the predominant sex was female and race / color was brown. Among nursing staff 50% of them enrolled in the higher education and among nurses, only 01 do not progress any specialization Sensu Lato. Training time is being predominantly 6 and 10 years and the time of performance of the SAMU SAJ was between 1 and 3 years. All professionals were trained to act. A nurse revealed no known measures of universal precautions for preventing accidents. Among the most nurses (66, 6%) was declared safe for work, nursing staff reported being very safe and secure to operate in service. Not been any accidents at work by the time that lasted the research. In addition to actions for safe work, it is also necessary that the employee know the measurements of Standard Precautions to prevent accidents at work and notify all accidents at work suffered. With the notification of the accident can make improvements in the work environment, create measures to prevent further accidents and especially minimize damage to workers' health.