Aplicabilidade da Norma Regulamentadora 32: visão dos trabalhadores de enfermagem de um hospital público do RJ

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Ana Carina da
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• 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/1/11253
• topic: Legislation as topic; Occupational risks; Nursing; Occupational health; Saúde e trabalho - Legislação; Legislação como assunto; Riscos ocupacionais; Equipe de enfermagem; Saúde do trabalhador; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

This study consists of a descriptive research and quantitative data analysis on the Applicability of Regulatory Standard-32 (NR 32) created by the Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE) for mobilizing nursing workers in order to reduce exposure to work risks in health facilities. Research question: concerning nursing professionals, what are the factors that interfere in the implementation process of the Regulatory Standard 32 in wards of a Rio de Janeiro State Public Hospital? The general aim was to analyze the factors that influence the applicability of NR 32 for nursing in a Rio de Janeiro public hospital. The population corresponded to 138 workers of nursing wards of internal, surgical and orthopedic medicine. A questionnaire composed by closed questions was used for data collection. Data were collected from January 28th to February 14th, 2009, and analyzed using the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 13 for Windows and Microsoft Office Excel 2003. The results showed that nursing workers are mostly aged 30-49 with at least 1 year of experience in the same sector and they are trained for at least 15 years, and 68.1% corresponded to statutory workers. It was found that some of the NR 32 recommendations and standard precautions are not followed by the participants. Factors that interfere in the current legislation performance ranged from unawareness of occupational hazards and employees conduct to lack of encouragement for Continuing Education and inefficiency of the Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC). The following factors also stood out: use of adornment (51.8%), open footwear (48.9%), feeding in the workplace (46.3%), use of the sink for other purposes (44.9% ), manual needle disconnection or recapping procedures (36.4%), use of uniform or personal protective equipment - PPE - out of the workplace (21%), undetected disregard for container limit of sharps disposal (11.8%); lack of use of PPE when helping exams with X-rays (32.6%) and chemotherapy handling (7.8%). The institution does not provide uniforms nor shoes. Other institutional factors were lack of equipment, lack of prevention and health promotion policies, lack of occupational health programs and inadequate physical facilities. Such inefficiency excessively exposes nursing professionals to a variety of occupational risk factors which can have an impact on their health and on the work process. It is recommended that the Continuing Education and the HICC programs work together in order to increase awareness among nursing professionals, and a Workers Health Program should be created. It is suggested that managers extend this study to other sectors of hospitals and other public health institutions for increasing awareness of the work situation and allowing discussions on these problems with the professionals participation.