Conocimiento sobre residuos peligrosos en docentes asistenciales del programa de instrumentación quirúrgica en una institución educativa de la ciudad de Cali, periodo 2020 a.

Abstract

In the present undergraduate work, she determined the knowledge about hazardous waste in healthcare teachers of the Surgical Instrumentation program at an educational institution in the City of Cali, period 2020ª. We collected information by applying a virtual survey using a tool called Google Forms, this due to the Covid-19 pandemic we are currently experiencing, it was sent by institutional mail to 56 teachers of the Surgical Instrumentation program. Those teachers who did not receive the mail, who did not sign the informed consent and teachers who did not have internet to carry out the survey, were excluded for a total of 50 teachers who did participate in the research. Sociodemographic data was measured. The analysis of the results showed that in the gender 90% are women, that the socio-economic strata that predominates is the middle 3-4 with 72% followed by the upper stratum 5-6 with 16%, that their marital status showed that 48% are married, followed by free union with 26%, as well as single. Therefore, it is shown that there is a population in the same age range of 33 to 37 years and 38 to 42 years, occupying 36% each. However, in general we were able to determine that 60% of the healthcare teachers have knowledge about hazardous waste. Finally, a discussion, conclusions, recommendations are made and a pedagogical tool was created to reinforce the topic, regarding the results found in the research.