Infection transmission risk analysis in Covid-19 intensive care nurses

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic, which affects the whole world, continues to spread rapidly. The pandemic has reached a serious extent and the risks are getting deeper. The sector most affected by the pandemic has been the health sector and health personnel have become an indispensable element of this process. The people at highest risk of being infected are nurses who are in contact with or are responsible for the care of COVID-19 patients. This study was conducted to investigate the transmission risk of COVID-19 infection among nurses who care for patients in intensive care units.  In this study, to prevent the transmission of infection from patient to nurse, possible failures in the process were determined by experts selected from nurses, and risk analyses were performed using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Entrophy-based Grey Relational Analysis methods. In this study, the three most probable and high-priority failure types were determined in the failures made in the procedures for the transmission of the infection from the patient to the nurse.There is a need to increase the quantity and quality of intensive care unit care personnel to manage new waves of COVID-19 or possible pandemic situations effectively.