Burnout and stress among nurses in a university tertiary hospital.

This cross-sectional, analytical and correlational study investigated the existence of Burnout based on a sample of 149 nurses of a university tertiary hospital from October to December 2008 and correlate Burnout with stressors in the hospital work environment. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Nurses' Stress Inventory and a questionnaire to characterize the subjects were applied. The results indicated the presence of Burnout in 7.

[Quality of life and musculoskeletal symptoms in hospital housekeeping workers].

This retrospective descriptive study, using structured validated questionnaires, analyzed 86 hospital housekeeping workers who were exposed to a huge diversity of occupational risks at a public municipal teaching and emergency hospital. The purpose of this study was to identify the quality of life aspects and musculoskeletal symptoms in hospital housekeeping workers. The results found by administering the Nordic Questionnaire confirmed that workers had problems in some part of their bodies.

Occupational accidents and health-related quality of life: a study in three hospitals.

This study analyzed the occurrence of occupational accidents among hospital workers between 2000 and 2005 and health-related quality of life of a sample of injured workers in 2005. Data obtained through occupational accident reports indicated 286 injured workers. In typical accidents (91.

[Occupational exposure of health care workers to organic fluids and adhesion to chemoprophylaxis].

This study was aimed at investigating the characteristics of occupational accidents and of the workers that suffered them, and at evaluating the adhesion to chemoprophylaxis and to control and follow up tests after occupational accidents with risk of contamination by the human immunodeficiency virus and of the hepatitis B and C virus. This is a descriptive epidemiological study whose data was collected from the notifications of one of the administrative regions of the State of São Paulo's Secretary of Health between 2000 and 2001. It was observed 7.

[Life and working conditions among physicians at a university hospital].

This paper evaluated the life and working conditions of physicians who worked in a university hospital. Two questionnaires, one for occupational data and the Medical Outcomes Study 36 - Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) were applied. 91 surgeons and 96 physicians, mainly of the masculine sex, participated in the inquiry.

[Occupational risks among a nursing staff working in an intensive care unit].

This is a descriptive study that detected the main occupational risks to which the nursing staff working in an intensive care unit are exposed. The data were collected through individual interviews, using a structured script. It was verified that the workers are exposed to the risks of accidents related to the care procedures to the patients and to the environment work.

A review of latex sensitivity related to the use of latex gloves in hospitals.

Beginning in the 1980s, use of latex gloves to protect health care workers against exposure to blood and body fluids increased. Since then, the number of reported cases of latex sensitivity also has increased. Reactions to latex range from contact dermatitis to anaphylactic shock.

[The occurrence of work accidents at an intensive care unit].

This descriptive study identified the work accidents that occurred among nursing staff working at an intensive care unit and correlated the accidents with the procedure being executed by the worker at the time of the accident. Data were collected through individual interviews realized with 68 workers during 2001. It was verified that the accidents were primarily due to contact of blood and secretions with skin and mucosa, injuries due to perforating objects, falls and vertebral column lesions.

[Occupational trauma of the vertebral column in nursing workers].

All occupational accidents (CAT) reported at a University hospital, from January 1990 to December 1997, were analyzed and the characteristics of the vertebral column trauma caused by the occupational accidents involving members of the nursing team were investigated. During this period, 531 accidents were reported and 37 (7%) of these were typical vertebral column traumas. These results suggested that the number of accidents reported were below actual estimates and that the nursing auxiliaries were the most affected.