Nivel de conocimiento sobre Bioseguridad relacionado a riesgos laborales en personal asistencial de la E.S.E Hospital Francisco Canossa de Pelaya, Cesar

Abstract

Biosafety is a doctrine of conduct aimed at obtaining attitudes and actions that reduce the health employee's risk of reaching infections in the workplace. All health personnel have a higher probability of occupational injuries than any other, due to being in a work environment with a wide scale of harmful exposures, since they are exposed to blood and certain body fluids during their working hours, they can be infected with viral infections such as the virus HBV, HIV, HCV, Bacteria, Parasites, toxins or other pathogens, which are transmitted by different routes. For the present study, a quantitative methodology was used since it assigns numerical values ​​to the findings, and a descriptive method, where field work and cross-sectional cohort work were carried out, since with these tools it is intended to identify the level of knowledge about biosafety related to occupational risks in healthcare personnel of the ESE Hospital Francisco Canossa de Pelaya, Cesar. It is important to recognize that the level of knowledge of the hospital staff is very good and the staff in general is well informed and trained on the subject of biosafety.