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- Title
Weaknesses of vaccine storage in Primary Healthcare Centers.
- Authors
Conceição de Oliveira, Valéria; Del Pilar Serrano Gallardo, Maria; Bezerra Cavalcante, Ricardo; Arcêncio, Ricardo Alexandre; Carvalho Pinto, Ione
- Abstract
Objective: assessment through qualitative approach of vaccine storage in Primary Healthcare Centers. Method: assessment study of qualitative approach in which 30 interviews were conducted with nurses, nursing technicians or assistants and technical reference in immunization, in 12 vaccine rooms that had 100% of the structural criteria evaluated. Recorded testimonials of the subjects were organized and analyzed using thematic Content Analysis. Results: the assessment pointed to absence of knowledge on the parts of nurses and nursing technicians and assistants with respect to the effects of low temperature on vaccines. Barriers were also encountered in relation to the supervision of nurses in the vaccine room activities and in relation to the knowledge needed by workers to care for preservation of vaccines. Conclusion: vaccine storage is inadequate and may compromise the quality of the immunobiologicals dispensed to the populace.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; COMMUNITY health nursing; COMMUNITY health services; LEGAL compliance; CONTENT analysis; DRUG storage; IMMUNIZATION; INTERVIEWING; MEDICAL protocols; NURSES; NURSES' aides; NURSING; NURSING practice; PERSONNEL management; PRIMARY health care; PROFESSIONS; QUALITY control; REFRIGERATION &; refrigerating machinery; TEMPERATURE; VACCINES; QUALITATIVE research; QUANTITATIVE research; EVALUATION research; THEMATIC analysis; CLINICAL supervision; WORK experience (Employment)
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2015, Vol 68, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article