Fatores que interferem na adesão às precauções padrão por estudantes de enfermagem: revisão integrativa

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Because of COVID-19, there has been a greater awareness of the so-called standard precautions (SP), which are daily attitudes implemented in health services that reduce the transmissibility of health care-related infections (HAIs), preventable infections acquired within a health unit, especially a hospital, during the period of treatment in the service or due to some procedure performed in the facilities. The spread of HAIs is a clear indication of weakness in the development of a patient safety culture, so measures must be organized and various studies show that education in infection control has a decisive impact on engagement in the use of SPs, including higher education institutions, which are in the process of training the new workload that will arrive in healthcare units. OBJECTIVE: To infer the factors that interfere with adherence to standard precautions by nursing students. METHODS: This is an integrative review in which the following guiding question was posed: “What factors influence adherence to standard precautions by nursing students?”. CONCLUSION: Based on the analysis of the study, it can be concluded that adherence to IPs is influenced by various factors and its rates among nursing students are in need of attention. However, it is clear that there is a lack of research on the subject in other countries, especially nationally, as the different realities interfere with the statistics. Once there is such an expansion of research, it will be possible to define the weaknesses and strengths of SPs teaching even more assertively.