Cumplimiento de lavado de manos en el personal de enfermería de un hospital de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Hand washing is a fundamental technique to prevent the transmission of microorganisms within a hospital setting. According to the World Health Organization, there are insufficient compliance rates in developed and underdeveloped countries. Objective: To describe the compliance of handwashing in the nursing staff of a hospital in the city of Guayaquil. Design: descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional, and prospective. Population: 311 people from the health team. Sample: 124 nursing staff who work at the Luís Vernaza Hospital. Technique: Survey. Instrument: Questionnaire of questions. Results: Female nursing staff (83%), from 42 to 52 years old (33%), nursing assistants (51%) and nursing graduates (49%), who work in the morning (43%) and in the afternoon (30%), who have been working for 16 to 25 years (33%), who work in the area of internal medicine (57%), use alcoholic solution for hand hygiene (43%) and soapy solution (27%), the assistants say that they do not use any resources for hand hygiene (23%), the graduates also indicated that they do not use any resources to carry out this hygiene (20%) and only wash their hands before contact with the patient (96%). Conclusion: The nursing staff is aware of the means of transmission of microorganisms, however, there is no compliance with hand washing after handling the patient, therefore, it is necessary to apply control and training measures to improve adherence. to hand washing.