Inovações tecnológicas em terapia intensiva: repercussões para a saúde do trabalhador de Enfermagem e o processo de trabalho

• Autor(a) principal: Perez Junior, Eugenio Fuentes
• 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/1/11284
• topic: Nursing; medical technology; occupational risk; worker health; Enfermagem de tratamento intensivo - Inovações tecnológicas; Enfermagem do trabalho; Enfermagem; tecnologia médica; risco ocupacional; saúde do trabalhador; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The introduction of hard technologies in health sector has transformed the work process, and, although priceless benefits, it must be seen by workers with caution due to problems related to reliability, data authenticity and corrective and preventive maintenance by specialists. On the other hand, there are some imposed demands in terms of knowledge and abilities for their use, for there are error risks and iatrogenis which must be identified and worked on by the organization aiming at performance safety, satisfaction and worker welfare. At this point, its use brings about the increase of assignments number, work rhythm intensification, due to the need of strenuous control by workers to keep the balance of demands from the machine and the patient. Such demands coaxes on worker health and causes mental and physical problems. It has aimed at identifying the nursing workers perception about ICU hard technology use; describing intervening factors in relation to nursing workers hard technology use at the ICU for the working process and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nursing workers health. A descriptive qualitative study wich data have been obtained from a public hospital ICU located at Niterói district-RJ between December 2011 and February 2012 with 25 workers (11 nurses and 14 nursing technicians), from adopted inclusion criteria. The semi structured interview has been used through a script of this study problematic questions. The project has answered the demands of Resolution 196/96 from The Ministry of Health (MS), and has been aproved by the Committee of Ethics in Research (CEP) under the number CEP CAAE: 2063000025811. In the testimonies categorization the content analysis technique has been used Bardin, and the outcomes have been discussed under the light of Work Psychodynamics. It has been identified that ICU hard technology incorporation, under the sight of nursing workers, is a working tool for it provides more security, speed in tasks accomplishment, reliability and control related to the patients clinical status and decreasing repetitive actions. On the other hand, there are problems related to machines corrective and preventive maintenance which cause annoyance, interruptions and mental and physical overcharge due to the need of frequent alarm adjustments and set parameters, equipment changes and pieces replacement; limiting factors and which demand specialists intervention. Facing this work situation, hard technologies used in ICU configure as psychosocial risk factors for they cause occupational stress which internal and external resources used by workers show insufficient for their coping. The work organization with workers themselves must perform actions that minimize the marked risk factors aiming at nursing workers satisfaction, motivation and health as well as for the other members of the team.