Nursing professionals’ biosafety in confronting COVID-19 - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Nursing professionals’ biosafety in confronting COVID-19

ABSTRACT

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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