Conocimiento y práctica del uso de equipos de protección individual en marco del COVID-19, en enfermeros de la unidad de cuidados intensivos, Hospital Regional Loreto 2022

• Autor: Ushiñahua Pinedo, Jhomnie
• Formato: tesis de maestría
• Fecha de Publicación: 2024
• Institución: Universidad Nacional De La Amazonía Peruana
• Repositorio: UNAPIquitos-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unapiquitos.edu.pe:20.500.12737/10734
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12737/10734
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Enfermeros; Unidades de cuidados intensivos; Conocimientos, actitudes y práctica en salud; Equipos de seguridad; COVID-19; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.08

The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between the knowledge and practice of the use of personal protective equipment framed in COVID-19, in the Intensive Care Unit at the Regional Hospital of Loreto 2022. The study had a quantitative approach, prospective, non-experimental design. of a correlational descriptive nature, the population and sample consisted of 30 nursing professionals. The results were: 70.0% of nurses had high knowledge about the use of personal protective equipment in the context of COVID-19, 20.0% had medium knowledge, and 10.0% had low knowledge; 60.0% carried out efficient practice of using personal protective equipment, 23.3% carried out it regularly, and 16.7% performed it poorly and when testing the hypothesis using Kendall's tau b statistical test, it was found positive significance was obtained between knowledge and use of personal protective equipment (t = 0.421; > 0.05). The study concludes that the high level of knowledge is significantly related to efficient practice in the use of personal protective equipment in the context of COVID-19 in nurses at the Loreto Regional Hospital 2022.