Notification of biological risk in health personnel at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Health care personnel is exposed to biological risk in their routine due to different potentially infectious microorganisms that can harm its health status, a reality that is important to study.

Objective: To characterize the notification of biological risk in healthcare personnel at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital.

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study in a population of 202 randomly selected individuals was carried out. Quantitative variables such as sex, services, professional category, work area, work experience and work shifts were analyzed, expressed as mean, median and mode. Qualitative variables such as type of work accident and causes of non-reporting were expressed as frequencies and percentages.

Results: The predominant group is female (72.8%). The 37.1% belongs to the nursing personnel. All the participants are exposed to biological risk accidents (BRA), of which, 59.9% have suffered an occupational accident, punctures being the most frequent (31.7%). The 46.3% have reported. The reasons have been: lack of time (80%), followed by lack of knowledge of the protocol (60%). The 59.5% says that improvements should be made to the declaration process.

Conclusion: the most of the health care personnel have suffered any type of BRA, being punctures or cuts the most frequent and less than half have reported it. Most of them indicate lack of time and lack of knowledge of the protocol as the main reason.