Prevenção da úlcera de pressão: resultados da ação educativa junto à equipe de enfermagem / Prevention of pressure ulcers: results of educational action by the nursing staff

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

13/02/2012

RESUMO

Patients hospitalized, bedridden or confined to bed, have a range of risk factors for the development of pressure ulcers, before that, one need skilled nursing care and effective in preventing these injuries in order to prevent their development. Thus, the research aimed to investigate the influence of educational action by the nursing staff of wards of Clinical Medicine in the prevention of pressure ulcers. This was a descriptive quantitative study design with device type of intervention before and after, as a backdrop of Clinical Medicine wards of a university hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The subjects were nurses (n = 15) and nursing staff (n = 18) of the Clinical Medicine and the unit of measure was the number of times that nursing actions relating to the prevention of pressure ulcers and performed by the subjects were observed by the researcher. We obtained 396 observations before the educational activity and 204 after the educational activity. The research had three stages: systematic observation before the educational activity, achievement of educational action and systematized observation after the educational activity. The results were obtained by analyzing the check list before and after the educational activity and found, by percentages, significant improvements. The category always considered the optimal value for all variables, increased by 20 percentage points between the observations, the category often increased by 07 points and rarely category decreased by 27 points. This demonstrates that the educational activity achieved its goal of raising awareness about the nursing staff to prevent pressure ulcers in a qualified manner. We conclude that pressure ulcers remain a major public health problem deserving special attention by the nursing staff. We believe that the educational activity is able to sensitize the nursing team and encourage the transformation of the actions and conduct, however, she is punctual and is only part of the educational process. To achieve behavioral change and provide an efficient and quality care to patients at risk of developing pressure ulcers, we suggest the development of a continuous and permanent educational practice, able to maintain the nursing staff constantly improving.

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Úlcera por pressão capacitação em serviço educação continuada em enfermagem enfermagem Úlcera por pressão - enfermagem Úlcera por pressão - prevenção educação permanente (enfermagem) equipe de enfermagem - treinamento pressure ulcer inservice training continuing education in nursing

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