[Adverse events: analysis of a notification instrument used in nursing management]

Barriers to patient safety incident reporting by Brazilian health professionals: an integrative review

An integrative review was performed to identify and analyze national studies on barriers to patient safety incident reporting by health professionals within Brazilian health services. A search in the Virtual Health Library (BVS) Portal, PubMed and Web of Science was performed in January 2017 for papers published in the last ten years. One thousand and seven publications were identified and, following application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, eight papers were analyzed, five of which were qualitative and three quantitative. All research was conducted in hospitals, exclusively with nursing professionals, and 75% was conducted in Southeast Brazil. Most studies showed an under-reporting of incidents, and the main reasons were fear about reporting, reporting focused on more severe incidents, lack of knowledge about the subject or how to report and, registered nurse-centered reporting. While study of this theme is still incipient in Brazil, this review found important weaknesses in the process and barriers to incident reporting by professionals, revealing a need for encouraging their participation, eliminating or reducing such barriers with a view to strengthening patient safety.

Postmarketing surveillance in Brazil: vascular catheters - an overview of notifications of adverse events and technical complaints

This article identifies, quantifies and categorizes adverse event notifications and technical complaints related to the use of vascular catheters, received by the Notivisa system in the period from January 2007 to June 2016. It is a descriptive, retrospective, documental study with a quantitative approach. Data requested and supplied by Anvisa were analyzed and presented in the form of charts and tables. The study covered 4,682 notifications of technical complaints, and 671 adverse events. There was a progressive increase in notifications during the period studied. As to the type of technical complaint, the majority referred to 'suspected quality failings', the largest component being due to 'catheter rupture during procedure'. The adverse event most notified was 'catheter broke in the vein and migrated to another part of the body'. In the period studied there were four notifications of deaths, the most severe level of adverse event. The study made it possible to visualize the importance of after-sales surveillance of vascular catheters, as well as supplying a wide-ranging overview of their use. Provision of this overview could support technical surveillance activities and serve as input for public policies relating to this product.

Nursing Diagnosis Risk for falls: prevalence and clinical profile of hospitalized patients

Objectives

to identify the prevalence of the Nursing Diagnosis (ND) Risk for falls in the hospitalizations of adult patients in clinical and surgical units, to characterize the clinical profile and to identify the risk factors of the patients with this ND.

Method

a cross-sectional study with 174 patients. The data was collected from the computerized nursing care prescriptions system and on-line hospital records, and analyzed statistically.

Results

the prevalence of the ND Risk for falls was 4%. The patients' profile indicated older adults, males (57%), those hospitalized in the clinical units (63.2%), with a median length of hospitalization of 20 (10-24) days, with neurological illnesses (26%), cardio-vascular illnesses (74.1%) and various co-morbidities (3±1.8). The prevalent risk factors were neurological alterations (43.1%), impaired mobility (35.6%) and extremes of age (10.3%).

Conclusion

the findings contributed to evidencing the profile of the patients with a risk of falling hospitalized in clinical and surgical wards, which favors the planning of interventions for preventing this adverse event.

The reasons of the nursing staff to notify adverse events

OBJECTIVE:

this research aimed to understand the motivation for reporting adverse events from the perspective of nursing staff in the work environment.

METHOD:

qualitative study that used the phenomenology of Alfred Schutz for reference, which offers a systematic approach to understand the social aspects of human action. Data were collected by open interviews with 17 nurses and 14 technicians/assistant nurses in a university hospital.

RESULTS:

motivation was revealed through six categories: all types of occurrences must be reported; the incident report is an auxiliary instrument to health care provision management; the culture of punishment in transition; nurses as the agents responsible for voluntary reporting; sharing problems with higher management and achieving quality in the work process.

DISCUSSION:

it was unveiled that, when reporting adverse events, team members perceived themselves to be in a collaborative relationship with the institution and trusted that they would receive administrative support and professional security, which encouraged them to continue reporting. Reporting allows health care professionals to share responsibilities with managers and encourages corrective actions.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS:

the study revealed the nursing staff's motivation for adverse event reporting, contributing to reflections on institutional policies aimed at patient safety in health care.

Assistência de enfermagem e o enfoque da segurança do paciente no cenário brasileiro

RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo foi o de analisar a contribuição da enfermagem para a segurança do paciente no Brasil. O método de pesquisa eleito foi o da revisão integrativa da literatura. Pesquisaram-se as bases de dados Lilacs, Medline, BDENF, SciELO e PubMed por meio dos descritores 'segurança do paciente', 'cuidados de enfermagem' e 'Brasil'. Os artigos avaliados referem-se ao período 2009-2014, disponíveis em português, inglês e espanhol. Por fim, selecionaram-se 15 artigos. As publicações evidenciam a existência de ações positivas da enfermagem na segurança do paciente. Concluindo, a pesquisa reflete sobre a importância da identificação do erro e da utilização de ferramentas para melhoria da cultura de segurança nas instituições brasileiras.

Avaliação de cuidados na terapia intravenosa: desafio para a qualidade na enfermagem

Estudo multicêntrico, prospectivo, descritivo-exploratório, realizado em hospitais de ensino públicos (A e B), que objetivou avaliar cinco indicadores de qualidade de enfermagem relacionados à terapia intravenosa periférica. Utilizou-se o Instrumento de Registro de Busca Ativa em 1.307 observações dos seguintes indicadores: identificação e validade do acesso venoso periférico; de equipos; e dos frascos de soro. Determinou-se o Índice de Positividade (IP) para Qualidade da Assistência (QA): Desejável (100% IP); Adequada (90-99%); Segura (80-89%); Limítrofe (71-79%); Sofrível ( < 70%). A QA apresentou-se Segura apenas para os indicadores identificação e validade de equipos e dos frascos de soro da instituição B. Os demais indicadores, em ambas as instituições, alcançaram QA Sofrível ou Limítrofe. Considerando que nenhum dos indicadores avaliados obteve QA Adequada nem Desejável, conclui-se que o processo de cuidado para com a terapia intravenosa, principalmente na instituição B, necessita de maior atenção por parte das lideranças e respectivas equipes.