Nurses’ conceptions regards to sepsis in patients in intensive care

Objectives: to know the nurses’ understanding regards to sepsis; to identify the triggering factors in the viewpoint of nurses and the nursing precautions implemented to the patient to avoid it. Methodology: this is about a descriptive study, from qualitative approach. The sample is comprised by six nurses that work or worked in intensive care units. The information was obtained through semi-structured interviews and analyzed by following the method of analysis. The project was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research of Unijuí (119/2010). Results: from the content analysis it was possible to group the content by a convergence of ideas emerging category which covers the concept, precipitating factors and interventions to sepsis from the viewpoint of nurses. Conclusions: the researched people have sufficient understanding in relation to the subject of analysis, seeing that it is for them to know how to properly take care of the patient to avoid a rise in cases of sepsis that are directly related to quality of care.