the CECOVA calls for a regional standard to regulate the obligatory use of materials of biosecurity to prevent accidental puncture
Ãvila defends outpatient follow-up of liver patients that frequent, face-to-face or telephone, contact achieves that, before a secondary effect, the patient not interrupted treatment ”
Valencia, 2011-July the Council of nursing in the region of Valencia (CECOVA) and the colleges of nursing in ValenciaCastellón and Alicante recalled the occasion of the celebration of world day against Hepatitis, the need for autonomous regulations governing the compulsory use of antipinchazos devices for the safety of health care professionals and patients through the acquisition of bio-safety materials that minimize the risk of contagion in 85 per cent and the gradual eliminacióunsafe devices n ”.
In this regard, professional nursing organizations proposed to the Ministry of health that anticipates the transposition of the EU directive for the prevention of injuries caused by sharp and stabbing in hospital and healthcare sector instruments published on June 1 in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) which requires Spain and the rest of Members to use these devices before May 11, 2013.
In this sense, Collegiate Nursing organizations claimed that the nurses were victims of 46 per cent of the accidental puncture that occur with the consequent risk of transmission of communicable diseases in this way such as AIDS or hepatitis ”. In addition, they recalled that in Spain, 10% of the accidental puncture of nurses occurs when they are attending a patient carrier of hepatitis C; 5 per cent when they attend a patient carrier of the virus of human immunodeficiency (HIV); and 2% with patients carriers of hepatitis B.
The President of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila Olivares, explained that though five Spanish autonomous communities (Madrid, Castile – La Mancha, Balearic Islands, Galicia and Navarra) have legislation that requires the use of materials of the Comunitat Valenciana, which has been a pioneer in awareness, since 2002, through the Working Group in the CECOVA biohazards and biosafetyIt may not be outdone and he should soon develop a standard to support the use of antipinchazos devices ”.
A total of five Spanish communities have already been developed gradually since 2005 a set of rules to regulate the mandatory use of these devices in their respective health systems and, thus, the President of the CECOVA found that the Comunitat has been pioneer in the use of materials of biosafety neither can nor should be left behind in the adoption and development of effective legislation for the establishment of measures protection and security of health professionals so that, where an accident occurs, it is not cause of any kind of infection ”.
Liver patients outpatient follow-up
On the other hand, with regard to the role of nursing professionals in caring for patients with viral hepatitis, the CECOVA highlighted the importance of ambulatory monitoring of liver patients, explained Jose Antonio Avila, frequent, face-to-face or telephone, contact achieves that, faced with a side-effectthe patient not interrupted treatment because you do not know the significance of the effect, but will see the nurse about this symptom ”.
Thus, part of the work of ambulatory care focuses on patient control once it has already received the discharge and in this activity specialists understand that telephone monitoring allows you to create a link between doctor, nurse and patient that conveys more security to the patient and improves the control of the symptoms presented. The work done by nurses in these units of hepatology focuses on care, care and follow-up of liver patients, both in the consultation over the phone.
