Objective:

To identify adverse events (AEs) reported by nursing in some intensive care units (ICU) in Bogota.

Method:

A descriptive, prospective study was developed. The size of the sample consisted of 525 patients over a period of 6 months. The sampling was by convenience, participated voluntarily three health institutions in the city of Bogota. To collect information, digital form on-line. Data was analyzed with SPSS Statistics 23.0, version 2014.

Results:

594 reported adverse events in 525patients, related care nurse ranked first (38.7%), followed by airway management and mechanical ventilation (16.1%) and management of vascular access, probes and drains (14.8 %) and infection associated with care (12.6%). the occurrence of these adverse events predominated in men with an average age of 64.5 years in medical intensive care units, on the night shift with a 20-39 TISS-28 points.

Conclusions:

Adverse Events reported in the present study are more prevalent mostly related to direct patient care and airway, being preventable, was presented they indicate that alteration in compliance with standards of care.

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