Safety and health are indispensable elements when the purpose is to maintain a healthy and productive work environment. Health professionals, inserted the provision of health services, perform activities that require great physical proximity to the patient by the feature of nursing care, and for the use and handling of supplies and equipment. Given this, this study aims to analyze the measures of prevention of hospital-acquired infections in the intensive care unit. It is vital that at the hospital, has a Committee, where he is guided and monitored the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers, as a barrier to infectious diseases that are major sources of transmission of microorganism for professionals and for patients. In addition, handwashing, hygiene and cleanliness of the local bed, are simple methods that generate satisfactory results. In relation to methodology, bibliographical research through books and articles related to the topic in question. It is concluded therefore that to reduce hospital infection cases becomes feasible the use of deterministic techniques anticépticas both in the environment and in the procedures and materials that will be used on the patient. Therefore, nurses must put into practice the use of Individual protection equipment (IPE), it is the responsibility of the nurse apply all materials necessary for carrying out the procedures as a form of barrier to infectious diseases that are major sources of transmission of microorganism for professionals and for patients. In addition, handwashing, hygiene and cleanliness of the local bed, are simple methods that generate satisfactory results.
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