Comissão de ética de enfermagem: conhecimento dos profissionais de enfermagem

Abstract

The general objective of the study was to identify the knowledge of members of nursing ethics committees about the norms that regulate them, in hospital institutions in the city of Aracaju, state of Sergipe and, as specific objectives: 1. To obtain the state of the art on the Nursing ethics commissions in national and international literature, to support the definition of the object of study; 2. To characterize the Nursing Ethics Commissions implanted in hospital institutions in the city of Aracaju, state of Sergipe; 3. Draw a profile of the members of the Nursing Ethics Committees regarding the socio-demographic and professional aspects of hospital institutions in the city of Aracaju, state of Sergipe. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, carried out with 40 members of Nursing Ethics Commissions implanted and recognized by Coren-SE, in four hospital institutions. Three instruments were used for data collection, elaborated by the researcher, based on the existing regulations on commissions. Data collection took place between the months of November 2017 to August 2018. The data were initially transcribed in the Excel program and later exported to the SPSS version 22.0 program for descriptive analysis. The results showed that the nursing ethics commissions are still incipient, due to the low number of complaints received and referrals, not all skills are performed; the majority of the committee members were nurses, female and over 35; most of them had specialization in intensive care and urgent care units, they were mostly effective members and the average time in the commissions was 16 months; more than half of the professionals demonstrated “very satisfactory” knowledge about the commissions and regarding recognition, most of them see the role of the EEC in their institution as being very important, however they realize that the other professionals see this role with relatively or little importance. It is concluded that the professionals have satisfactory knowledge about the commissions, recognize that their roles are relevant, but fail to perceive a positive evaluation by their peers in the institutions.