Adherencia a la higiene de manos por parte del personal de salud en el área de medicina interna en un hospital de especialidades de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The risk of acquisition of nosocomial infections in hospital areas, influenced the development of the present investigation, whose objective was to determine the adherence of hand hygiene by health personnel in the area of Internal Medicine in a Hospital of Specialties of the city of Guayaquil, from October 2017 to March 2018. The methodology applied was descriptive and quantitative, applying the test and checklist to health personnel, identifying the following results: the majority are over 36 years of age, female, nursing graduates who work 1 to 5 years in the workplace. The staff uses and rubs hands and wrists, drying with paper towels that are removed after drying, whose weaknesses were the limited rubbing of the palms on the inside and outside, the weak cleaning of nails. It was possible to observe in a favorable way the knowledge of how to proceed when the hands are very dirty, in addition that most of the personnel knows perfectly the five moments of the washing of hands. In conclusion, the main impacts of efficiently performing adherence to hand hygiene are related to minimizing risk and strengthening the prevention of preventable pathologies, preventing pathogens from spreading easily, favoring their effective control and well-being of the patient and health personnel.