Intervención conductual en autocontrol y prevención de las conductas de riesgo en el alumnado de enfermería

Abstract

NTRODUCTION In all practical skills training program involving some kind of risk, necessarily the dilemma about what to prioritize arises, caution against the risks of a possible accident by inexperience, or the acquisition of experience, assuming the risks that this process involves. The practical training of the students in nursing represents a typical case about the dilemma we are proposing, nevertheless, given the type of consequences that such accidents would cause (with an obvious health hazard), it has to be done by establishing guidelines to ensure training without putting at risk neither to the student himself nor to the patient to whom they attend. Throughout this work we have tried to answer this question through the development of a training and intervention program in students of Diploma and Degree of Nursing at the University of Cordoba, during the academic years 2008 to 2013, taking into account the explanatory models of risk behaviors applicable to the Prevention of Occupational Risks, it is consisting of a phase of spreading of information about the risk of suffering biological accidents and his control; moreover, it adds an interventional approach, which does not content with implementing prevention measures in the physical environment nor to provide appropriate training and information, but goes further in an attempt to ensure a real impact on the safety of students and users. OBJECTIVES The main objective of this research was to promote preventive habits and behaviors to the biological risk in students of Health Sciences of the University of Cordoba who perform their practices in health centers and reduce the risk of accidents, especially biological, during the development of their clinical practice. To do this we sought to influence risky behavior, developing a Prevention Plan that not only is conformed to the informative-cognitive, but is complemented by others that could improve the effect of training. The specific objectives were: 1. Describe the risk against the biological accident of students of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Cordoba, in order to develop a specific Prevention...