[An educative practice of sensitization to ionizing radiation exposition with health professionals].

This study present a nursing care practice whose objective is to sensitize health professionals of neonatal intensive care unit about the risk of exposition to ionizing radiation, aiming to optimize the radiological protection. The Operative Italian Model (OIM) was the main theoretical and methodological reference which guided this practice, carried out with twelve participants in a public hospital in Floriandpolis-SC, Brazil. The results demonstrated that health professionals are exposed to ionizing radiation, especially for not being aware of the recommendations already included in the legislation.