Abstract The study aimed to identify the knowledge in the scientific literature available on interventions geared to the premature development. We performed a literature search in databases systems involving national and international journals published in the period 1997 to 2007. The data were categorized into five areas: pre-natal care and prevention of fetal and neonatal risk, and prematurity as a risk factor for development; reasons of care focused development and interventions geared to the premature. The results point to the […]

Abstract This study aims to identify at the scientific literature the role of nurses in assisting families at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The content analysis showed that the nursing assistance to the families in the NICU is designed more to individual needs of the newborn, with little emphasis on the care of the family. Thus, understanding and knowledge needs of family members provide input for the care to be provided to the family. We concluded that the newborn […]

Abstract This study had the aim of identifying models and styles of nursing care in child health. It was analyzed 40 dissertations and thesis abstract from 1998-2002, of the Nursing Program of Post-graduation of Rio de Janeiro. The results showed that pediatric nurses problematized their research question on their professional practice, and based their interpretation on the theory of psychological child development. Moreover, they highlighted the necessity of providing nursing care in order to recover child from disease and promote […]

Abstract This qualitative study with descriptive approach had an objective to identify a vision of sutdent nurses about playing as a way of taking care children with HIV/AIDS in hospital stay situation; to describe a playing strategies adopted by them in caring for those smalls clients; to discuss repercussions of using play by them in their background and how to learn about effective children interaction. Student nurses of 7th and 8th periods from one public federal university, Rio de Janeiro, […]

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