Práticas Educativas relacionadas ao controle de infecção entre acompanhantes de pacientes em isolamento em um hospital universitário / Educational practices related to infection control among caregivers of patients in isolation at a university hospital
The accompanying persons stay in the hospital units requires a more accurate look by the healthcare staff on the infection control. This study is about educational drills applied by hospitalized patient's accompanying persons in hospital institutions, who are also at the isolation ward. Its objective is to identify the isolated patients' accompanying personsknowledge regarding precaution, isolation, transmission and hospital infection; and create an educational technology as folder in order to instruct the hospitalized patients' accompanying persons that are in isolation. A close-ended questionnaire has been applied to 30 patients' accompanying persons, selected by convenience, who are hospitalized in a Federal UniversityHospital's clinical and surgical wards. The sample were mostly of women, with high school level of schooling and average length of stay as accompanying person of 34 days. There have been no uniformity of the knowledge about the patient's disease, as well as the infection transmissionprobability. The practice of washing hands have been valued, however, only before entering the ward. The nurse presented herself as main professional responsible for instructing the accompanying persons, however, the majority of the accompanying persons haven't received any instruction related to isolation measures at the unit, what collaborates to inappropriate attitudes and behaviors. Based on these results, it's expected that both the created tool can modify the practice presented by the accompanying persons and that the hospitalar infection rates are reduced