O perfil profissional do fisioterapeuta nas unidades de terapia intensiva em Santa Catarina

• Autor(a) principal: Jesus, Thainá Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/16189
• topic: Fisioterapia; Unidade de terapia intensiva; Fisioterapeutas

INTRODUCTION: Intensive care physiotherapy aims to improve the patients' overall functional capacity, as well as restore ventilatory and physical independence, thus reducing the risk of complications associated with staying in bed. These activities solid academic training and aptitude for the proper exercise of the profession. OBJECTIVE: To outline the professional profile of physiotherapists working in intensive care units in the state of Santa Catarina. METHODS: Physiotherapists who were coordinators and / or technicians responsible for the Physiotherapy service of the Intensive Care Unit of hospitals with ICU beds registered in Santa Catarina were identified, who answered an online questionnaire with questions about training and professional practice. The collected data were tabulated using Microsoft Excel software, good and very basic in absolute and relative frequencies. RESULTS: The professional profile of physiotherapists working in the ICU in Santa Catarina is predominantly of young adults aged 31 to 35 years, graduated predominantly from private institutions (77%). Mostly post-graduated with specialization (55.5%), master's (55.6%) or doctorate (11.1%), most of them looking for updating technical-scientific knowledge (88.9%). All the adapted ones have a coordinator of the physiotherapy team, with 55.6% being a specialist, where most of the activities predetermined by are performed by physiotherapists. Physiotherapists are related to the exercise of the profession (100%), but that we do not find as a lack of confidence on the part of the team (44.4), a high number of patients (33.3%) and a lack of adequate materials for care (33.3%). CONCLUSION: The responsible technical physiotherapists are retired, are constantly improving, as activities and decision recovery are mostly decided in a shared way with the multiprofessional team. It was also identified that the physiotherapists are out of step with the exercise of the profession, but that. Or barriers such as lack of confidence on the part of the team, high number of patients and lack of adequate materials for care.