Santrauka:
Baigiamajame bakalauro darbe buvo išsiaiškinti sveikatos priežiūros specialistų savisaugos įpročiai darbe. Išanalizavus mokslinę ir dalykinę literatūrą apie biologinius rizikos veiksnius ir dažniausiai naudojamas asmenines apsaugos priemones sveikatos priežiūros įstaigose bei išanalizavus anketinės apklausos, skirtos įvertinti sveikatos priežiūros specialistų savisaugos įpročius, duomenis buvo pateiktos išvados ir rekomendacijos. Baigiamąjį darbą sudaro: įvadas, teorinė bei empirinė tyrimo dalis, išvados, rekomendacijos, literatūros sąrašas ir priedai. Darbo apimtis – 43 puslapiai, literatūros sąraše 44 šaltiniai. Darbe yra 1 lentelė ir 32 paveikslai.
Description:
According to the European Committee (2013), approximately 10% of European Union population works in health care sector. These institutions are the source of many infections – there is a large variety of pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. They spread in different ways: via blood, air or skin contact. Constantly working with patients, infected materials or blood creates the risk of infection for all health care workers. To prevent infections heath care workers must efficiently use personal protective equipment: protective gloves, surgical masks, respirators, perform hand hygiene and vaccinate.
The purpose of this thesis is to determine health care worker’s self-preservation habits at workplace. To achieve this purpose, the following goals were set: 1) to perform the analysis of specialised and scientific literature about the risk factors for health care workers and the most commonly used personal protective equipment, 2) to identify health care worker’s self-preservation habits, 3) to compare self-preservation habits of different specialities and hospitals workers. To achieve the set purpose these methods were selected: analysis of specialised and scientific literature, statistical data analysis, using a questionnaire. 193 health care workers participated in the survey. Survey was conducted on February and March, 2018.
Findings of the research: after analysing survey data it was determined, that health care workers rarely vaccinate against seasonal flu, half of the participants were vaccinated against hepatitis B. Vaccination rates are higher in the hospital which covered the costs of the vaccine. The laboratory technicians of hospital X and nurses of hospital Y reported to vaccinate against hepatitis B most often. The doctors and nurses of hospital X were the only ones who reported to vaccinate against seasonal influenza. Surgical masks are most commonly used by hospital Y staff, particularly the nurses. All of the participants reported that they are using protective gloves, however they are not changing them often enough. Health care workers of hospital Y had shown the best results for protecting themselves against infections that are transmitted via contact, the worst results were shown by the doctors of hospital X.