Work Environment and Process in Intensive Care: Safety Risks for Professionals and Patients

Risk situations are considered as being caused by the nature of the jobs and as the result of actions or external factors that increase the probability of changes in the workers’ health. Health work settings naturally concentrate a range of hazards that entail different health problems for the professionals working there.1 The nursing workers are the largest workforce in hospitals and are therefore the professionals who are most American Research Journal of Nursing ISSN: 2379-2922 Volume 5, Issue 1, 11 Pages Research Article Open Access Work Environment and Process in Intensive Care: Safety Risks for Professionals and Patients Fernanda Raphael Escobar Gimenes, PhD, RN1*, Ana Paula Gobbo Motta, RN, PhD2 Emanuel Nunes, RN, PhD3, Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi Rocha, PhD, RN4, Adriana Inocenti Miasso, PhD, RN5, Mayara Carvalho Godinho Rigobello, RN, PhD6, Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi, PhD, RN7 1*Professor at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. 2Student in the Graduate Program in Fundamental Nursing at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. 3Student in the Graduate Program in Fundamental Nursing at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. 4Professor at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. 5Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. 6Student in the Graduate Program in Fundamental Nursing at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. 7Full Professor at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil. *fregimenes@eerp.usp.br Abstract