Prevenção e controle das infecções hospitalares: um desafio em instituições públicas, privadas e filantrópicas do município de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

Nosocomial infections (NI’s) are a public health challenge and therefore, it is fundamental that prevention and control actions remain on the front line and on the basis of hospital institutions. For these actions to be effective it is of utmost importance to implement and maintain a Nosocomial Infections Control Programme (NICP) that may support and qualify them. This study of qualitative approach aims to investigate the NICP in public and private health institutions in the city of Juiz de Fora. The objectives are: to evaluate the Nosocomial Infections Control Programme (NICP) of public, private and philantropic hospital institutions in the city of Juiz de Fora and its relationship with the practice of professionals of Nosocomial Infections Control Commissions (NICC´s) and Services (NICS´s); to know the NICP of public, private and philantropic hospital institutions of Juiz de Fora; to know the actions of Juiz de fora Health Surveillance Agency concerning the control of nosocomial infections and to analyse the perceptions of health professionals that work in the NICC’s and NICS’s over the actions of control and prevention of NI’s. The data was collected in two moments: primarily, in order to characterize the NICP’s, we utilized an operational manual and indicators spreadsheets and, posteriorly, in order to collect the professional’s reports, we used semi-structured interview. For the analyses of the interviews we used the thematic analysis technique, wich allowed us to define the following categories: professional’s perception over the organization of NICC’s and NICS’s; the control and prevention of NI’s; the importance of continuing education; inspection of nosocomial infections and its relationship with Health surveillance and the challenge of controlling nosocomial infections. It was possible to observe that in the studied reality, the NICP’s shows many nonconformity's, and grand are the challenges pointed out by the subjects. It is necessary to view the NICP as a fundamental part of a better health assistance in hospital institutions. It is essential that not only the health institution values the infection control, but that all health professionals in fact understand the importance of the NICP and its relationship with the control and prevention of nosocomial infections.