CONHECIMENTO SOBRE ACIDENTE DE TRABALHO PELA ENFERMAGEM NO SERVIÇO DE ATENDIMENTO MÓVEL DE URGÊNCIA 1

Occupational Accidents (OA) are events that occur during labor activity at the company when on duty. It was aimed to identify the knowledge of nursing staff and characterize the occupational accidents occurred in a mobile emergency care service. Study exploratory and quantitative, conducted between November and December of 2010, in a mobile emergency care service of Natal/RN. To data collection, structured questionnaire was used. Of the 66 surveyed, 16.7% were nurses and 83.3% nursing technicians. Most of them did not know to conceptualize OA (51.5%), but 75.8% knew some standards and 27.4% of the professionals said that must occurred in the workplace. With respect to characteristics of the accident, the nurses (54.6%) have suffered more accidents than technicians (38.2%) and 74.1% of the professionals were performing patient transportation at the moment of the accident. Of the surveyed, 33.3% have suffered bruises caused by transport accidents (44.4%), reaching the upper and lower limbs and the pelvic waist (59.3%). Due to the great risk to suffer some type of OA, the education in service related to the thematic Biosecurity is important.