OBJECTIVE: To evaluate preventive measures recommended during patient care for respiratory symptoms, with pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS: Exploratory-descriptive study, retrospective, developed from information collected in medical records of patients with respiratory symptoms, diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. RESULTS: The number of tuberculosis cases in the city diagnosed during hospitalization during the study period was 65,29 (44.6%). As for the biosecurity measures during the hospitalization of 29 diagnosed cases, early aerosol were found in medical records in 13 (44.8%) patients. CONCLUSION: Data show that nursing professionals, working in hospitals, still exposed to risks of latent infection.
Nursing care; Nursing service, hospital; Education, nursing, continuing; Exposure to biological agents; Tuberculosis, pulmonary
