Segregação dos resíduos sólidos hospitalares

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Natalina Maria da
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Rampelotto, Elisane Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/4430
• topic: Solid waste; Environmental education; Nursing; Resíduos sólidos; Educação Ambiental; Enfermagem

For that, the objective was to verify and analyze the knowledge and/or compromise by the nursingstaff in the process of segregation and disposal of such waste. It is a descriptive-exploratory studywith qualitative analysis carried out with nurses, technicians and nursing assistants in twointensive care units of a University Hospital. To collect data, it was used a semi-structuredinterview during the period of August-September of 2011, having as analysis the appreciation of thematic content, divided into categories, namely: knowledge about the correct segregation ofmedical solid waste; accomplishment of segregation of medical solid waste; disposal of medicalsolid waste. Ethical principles were respected during all the research process. It was found that theinvestigated units know about the waste’s dynamics, but the majority unknows their finaldestination. The perception of nursing in the hospital ambience is related to patient care;however, not all realize the importance of segregation, having as suggestion the nurse training inorder to an effective segregation of medical solid waste and to raise the awareness of the harmthey can cause to the environment. Thus, the financing costs relating to the disposal of infectiouswaste can be reduced, embracing a greater number of professionals involved with the complexityof this theme.