Fatores de riscos ocupacionais e agravos à saúde dos trabalhadores de enfermagem de uma unidade ambulatorial especializada

• Autor(a) principal: Shoji, Shino
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11381
• topic: Occupational health nursing; Occupational hazard; Risk map; Enfermagem do trabalho; Riscos ocupacionais; Saúde do trabalhador; Mapa de risco; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The investigation object of this study approaches the impact of workplace at nursing worker's health at a specialized ambulatory unit in Rio de Janeiro city. The objectives were: to identify occupational hazard at the workplace of nursing workers in such study site; to describe nurses perception about impacts of occupational hazards in their health; to analyze their workplace in order to identify risk factors which negatively interfere in health; to propose prevention measures in order to minimize negative impacts in their health, highlighting the elaboration of a Risk Map. As theoretical support concepts and conjectures were approached related to labor disease and its relation to the occupational hazards, contextualizing them with the configuration at the universe of health work, its organization and the labour process, as well as experiences of pleasure and suffering that can alter workers´ health conditions. The study was supported by Taylor´s current labor concepts, seeking to understand transformations that occurred at the work process, as well as experiences such as suffering-pleasure generated at work. It is a descriptive-exploratory research type, qualitative nature, developed at PPC, after approval from Ethics Committee. The subjects were 40 nursing professionals, including nurses, technicians and aid nurses. Sample tools were semi-structured interviews and non participant observation, applied between march/april and june/september, 2011 respectively. And crossing information sampled from two tools, in order to obtain data it turned possible the elaboration of the Risk Map from the part of sectors concentrating more problems in terms of letting vulnerable workers' health, and it has elaborated UCAMB and CME Risk Map. It's important to highlight that there was previous signature from the Informed Consent and this research has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Pedro Ernesto Hospital under protocol number 2528. The analysis method chosen was thematic content analysis, which has given rise to three categories: occupational hazards which are visible and invisible to the nursing worker; the process of disease in the worker because of work; improvement in working conditions: contributions in order to protect worker's health. Results have evidenced that the most frequently revealed risk was of accident, mainly by sharps injury material, followed by exposure to biological risks. However, there were subjects who didn't realize the presence of such risks because of misled view of ambulatory environment, by lack of critical view of work process and by bluntness of its critical and analysis ability due to excess of work. The repercussion of occupational hazards at the workers bodies were identified as stress, osteomuscular varicose veins disorders. Workers have pointed out some suggestions in terms of working conditions improvement, namely: accomplishment of new structure reformation, equipment update, quantitative human resources improvement, working organization improvement, implementation of Worker's Health Center. We consider that the objectives of this study were properly achieved, however, it´s clear that there is much more to be investigated concerning to occupational hazards and its repercussion on workers, as well as necessary intervention to prevent and promote workers´ health. It's also necessary a continuous investment on the development of scientific activities must be highlighted, once it´s important to have positive paradigmatic changes in nursery research. New researches can be suggested, as well as rethinking nursing formation teaching strategies, and it is also relevant to obtain participation from the part of the category into social actions towards the construction of public policies in this field.