Brenda de Araújo Lopes, Mayara Carolina Cañedo, Nívea Lorena Torres, Thiago Inácio Barros Lopes, Maria Aparecida Munhoz Gaíva
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ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the nursing staff knowledge about patient safety and the occurrence of adverse events in Emergency Medical Care. Method: cross-sectional, quantitative study, developed in a teaching hospital in the Midwest region of Brazil. It was conducted with nursing professionals through an online questionnaire containing questions related to patient safety, applied in September 2021. The data analysis was descriptive. Results: Ninety professionals participated in the study, 28(31.1%) being nurses and 62(68.9%) nursing technicians. In the evaluation of the questionnaire items, the best score was about hand hygiene 84(93.3%), the worst evaluated item was patient identification protocol 45(50%). Pressure ulcers were indicated as the most frequent adverse event 28(33%). Conclusion: the results indicate that continuing education is essential for professionals to apply the international patient safety goals in practice.
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The Journal Cogitare Nursing is a publication of the Department of the Federal University of Parana Nursing, and had its first edition published in 1996. Disponível since 2015 only in the electronic version with circulation bases, directories, and national and international portals. Fully publishes articles in Portuguese and English version. It is intended to publish original research articles, review, experience report / case and free communication, health care, especially nursing. It is a magazine which adopts continuous flow system ( rolling pressure ). The evaluation process adopted is the peer review ( peer review ), consisting of two external peer reviewers designated according to the theme and the focus of the article.