Inconsistency: the knowledge of relevance and disuse on the part of epi health professionals

The perspective of an understanding of this incongruity between the understanding of the relevance and the disuse of PPE in the hospital unit is the objective of this study. This is a descriptive, exploratory, qualitative study carried out in two hospital units in the Cariri region of the State of Ceará with 76 health professionals, in the category of nurses and nursing technicians. It is noticed that most participants consider it relevant and essential for health prevention and promotion, in addition to minimizing or avoiding contamination by exposure during the practice of care. The participants do not consider the use of these equipment sanely to be important, thus demonstrating an indifference to their health, also unrelated to the third parties around them. The incongruity lies in knowing the relevance and being paramount for health prevention and promotion, in addition to minimizing or avoiding contamination by exposure during the practice of care above all, disuse is inevitable. Thus, evidencing the relevance of PPE to care in the most fully and effective way.