Tesis
Prevenção e controle de infecção: uma contribuição para a formação do enfermeiro
Fecha
1999-01-28Registro en:
RAMOS, Iara Terezinha Barbosa. INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL: A CONTRIBUTION TO NURSE FORMATION. 1999. 139 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, 1999.
Autor
Ramos, Iara Terezinha Barbosa
Institución
Resumen
This study deals with professional formation of nurses for prevention
and control of nosocomial infections. It takes in consideration the needs of
current professionals qualified to act on committees for control of
nosocomial infection. Such infections have become a major public health
problem, since not only do they embody the main causes of in-patient
mortality but also increase assistential costs and offer renewed risks,
making it necessary the setting of programs for infection prevention and
control. Thus, this study surveys nurse formation programs and attempts to
uncover and improve their curricula regarding control of hospital
infections. To this end, a review of the literature on educational policies,
nursing teaching and hospital infection was done. Then, an qualitative
study was carried out, aiming at unveilling program contents and
discussing them with nurses graduated from the Federal University of
Santa Maria (FUSM). The 1988 and 1996 curriculum proposals were
analyzed and then a preliminary proposal was drawn for the subject matter
in question. This sketch was submitted to faculty members for discussion
and approval. Finally, a new curriculum plan was drawn, where two new
disciplines are suggested to be included in the FUSM Nursing Program:
one to be offered in the third semester, with basic contents in Prevention
and Control of Nosocomial Infections (PCNI); and the other, focusing
contents on Nurse Practice in PCNI.