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- Title
Equipment failure: conducts of nurses and implications for patient safety.
- Authors
da Silva Rangel Ribeiro, Gabriella; Celestino da Silva, Rafael; de Assunção Ferreira, Márcia; Rezende da Silva, Grazielle; Faria Campos, Juliana; Ribeiro Porto de Andrade, Bianca
- Abstract
Objectives: To identify equipment failures during handling by nurses and analyze the conduct of the professionals when these failures occur. Methods: Descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study, whose field was the intensive care unit of a public institution, and the participants were day nurses that worked providing direct care to patients. Data were produced in 2014 through systematic observation and interviews and were examined with thick description and content analysis. Results: The outcomes evinced the inadequate functioning of infusion bombs, users' errors related to the design of equipment and problems with batteries of artificial fans. These failures related to the management of equipment in the unit. Final considerations: It is necessary to strengthen the monitoring systems of safety conditions of equipment in intensive nursing care to prevent incidents.
- Subjects
CONCEPTUAL structures; CONTENT analysis; CRITICAL care medicine; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTENSIVE care units; INTERVIEWING; MATHEMATICAL models; RESEARCH methodology; NURSES' attitudes; SCIENTIFIC observation; PATIENT safety; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; MATHEMATICAL variables; QUALITATIVE research; THEORY; MEDICAL equipment reliability; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 4, p1832
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0547