CONFORTO COMO INDICADOR DE QUALIDADE DA ASSISTÊNCIA DE ENFERMAGEM EM UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA PEDIÁTRICA
CONFORTO COMO INDICADOR DE QUALIDADE DA ASSISTÊNCIA DE ENFERMAGEM EM UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA PEDIÁTRICA
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.6732411048
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Palavras-chave: Conforto do Paciente; Cuidados de Enfermagem; Unidades de Terapia Intensiva; Pediatria
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Keywords: Patient Comfort; Nursing Care; Intensive Care Units; Paediatrics
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Abstract: The paediatric client who requires the use of technology for life maintenance also needs a "therapeutic environment", helping them to regain health and offering care centred on subjective body issues, including comfort. Methodology: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, with a qualitative approach, conducted in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of a federal hospital in the State of Rio de Janeiro. Objectives: 1) To identify, in the discourse of nursing professionals, which comfort care is provided to the client and whether it is considered quality indicators; 2) To propose a comfort scale for PICU using lexical terms that emerged from the participants' speech within the comfort contexts proposed by Kolcaba (physical, psychospiritual, environmental and social). A semi-structured questionnaire was applied in interviews with 39 professionals. The data were analyzed in the light of Bardin's Content Analysis and ordered into the following categories: I_Conforto qualifies nursing care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and II_Conforto as a priority of nursing care and the interference of the environment. Results revealed that comfort is a quality indicator capable of qualifying nursing care, and that concepts of nurse-patient-environment relationship are applicable in all current nursing staff, and that the internal and/or external environment interferes with comforting measures. A scale was created to measure the comfort status of PICUs, based on objective and subjective scores. Conclusion: nurses who manage critical care should take hold of scientific knowledge and implement evidence-based comfort measures, exposing the results obtained with these management practices in new studies.
- Margarida dos Santos Salú
- Zina Maria Almeida de Azevedo
- Marcia Farias de Oliveira
- Fernanda Maria do Carmo da Silveira Neves de Oliveira
- Carlos Roberto Lyra da Silva