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Nursing professionals' biosafety in confronting COVID-19
Mônica Alice Santos da Silva1, Morgana Cristina Leôncio de Lima1, Cynthia Angélica Ramos de Oliveira Dourado1
1Universidade de Pernambuco. Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Objective:
To investigate the nursing professionals' biosecurity in confronting COVID-19.
Methods:
This is a Survey type study. Nursing professionals were invited via messaging apps, using self-applied data collection forms. The sample selection (n=693) was non-probabilistic. A descriptive data analysis was conducted.
Results:
considering the biosafety aspects in facing COVID-19, 79.0% of the participants had not received training or considered it insufficient, 69.3% reported the lack of personal protective equipment during work, and 81.8% did not feel safe with the internal flux adaptations for handling COVID-19 cases.
Conclusion:
Continuous and effective nursing team training and personal protective equipment availability are necessary, as well as internal flow adjustments for attending suspected or confirmed cases.
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