O processo de trabalho em centro de material e esterilização: ações e finalidades do trabalho

Abstract

Introduction: The nursing professional from the Centre of material and sterilization is not well understood by the Centre itself and other health professionals. This creates a loophole for this working process that causes an impact on other sectors of health assistance in function of the products that are supplied. Objective: To Analyze the process of nursing teams of Material and Sterilization Center (MSC). Methodology: Characterized by an exploratory study, descriptive-analytical, cross to the working process of MSC professionals from a hospital General philanthropic. Composed by 12 professionals linked to the referred institution. Of these, are nursing technicians and nursing, MSC technical manager. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with these professionals, during the work period, adapting to their availability. Results: They are composed by the team of nursing professionals regarding their working process, so not exclusionary. In this way the structuring of thematic categories displays the frequency distribution for fleshing out the qualitative data. These are expressed respectively to highlight work actions, the Director, planning, organization, execution, and the purpose of such actions at the MSC. Discussion: The information reviewed in this study indicates that the performance of nursing staff in the MSC built a standardized knowledge. Nursing care in the MSC from the primacy to these stages because they are sequential and a failure not observed generates a cascading effect. Professionals who are in the upgrading process to work or any other that does not experience this situation, should not be exposed to an unhealthy environment. The planning of the everyday actions is directly related to the MSC dynamics which previously is incorporated to a personal scale, for it is necessary to consider the various stages of processing sterilization, as well as the materials distribution to the hospital consumer units. Conclusion: When investigated the work actions, the MSC nursing professionals express the process sterilization steps domain. When they express the way of realization, these professionals list the actions orders which are in congruence with the processing materials steps. There is still a prospect of self-assessment of the professionals interviewed to respond regarding the shares execution in MSC. The finalities of work actions reported by MSC professionals corroborate the qualitative perspective of do in favor to the patient safety. This way, they emphasize at the same time the institutional credibility towards society and their own health professionals.