Sepsis by procedures, level of knowledge of nursing professionals in Villa Clara, Cuba

Abstract

The infections originated during the hospital care process, are an important health problem of notable relevance due to the morbidity and mortality they produce. To
determine the level of knowledge of the nursing professionals who work in the units of attention to the serious patient in the prevention of the sepsis by means of procedures. The type of research was Descriptive, cross-sectional research, based at the Arnaldo Milián Castro University Hospital of Villa Clara in the period of June 2013-2014. The universe of the study consisted of 130 nurses and the sample selected by the random probability probabilistic method by clusters was conformed by 44. The questionnaire was used as instrument. The study involved graduates in nursing and technical nurses, professionals with work experience between 1 and 5 years were more numerous, all conglomerates presented representatives in the study being the most number of Adult Intensive Care Units 1 and 2; The questions that received the least correct answers and the highest frequency of error showed were 1, 10, 2, 16, 18, 19, 13, 5, 15 and 20, resulting in deficiencies in the contents that they deal with: cleaning process, decontamination , Disinfection and sterilization, substances used for this purpose, venous approach and endotracheal aspiration mainly; The questions that achieved the highest grade point average were 4 and 7 with 5 points each. The level of knowledge was considered good in 22.70% of the sample studied