Abstract Objective: To develop an educational and instructional material, in order to prepare child and their families to peripheral venopuncture puncture guided by ultrasound, Methods: In the first phase, a bibliographic study was conducted in to provide theoretical foundations. In the second phase, a field research with qualitative approach was conducted, to understand the needs of information of the child and their parents, and to know the nurse’s expertise. Third phase: the manual was developed. Results: Data from the literature […]

Abstract Objective: To understand the strength parents find to cope with the disease and hospitalization of their child, affected by a chronic illness. Method: Qualitative and descriptive study, carried out at the Pediatric Clinic and Pediatric Infectious and Parasitic Disease nursing wards of a University Hospital in São Paulo City. Subjects were one father and four mothers/ companions who answered the question: “Tell me how you cope with the situation of having your child sick and hospitalized”. Results: The following […]

Abstract Previous note of qualitative research that aims to understand how a child experiences HIV. Participants are pre-school and school children in outpatient treatment. Data were collected during a Therapeutic Play session and submitted to qualitative content analysis. These data revealed the following: children understand they have a disease shared with their parents, which is a secret; they are afraid of death; they are concerned about respiratory manifestations and fever; they see health professionals as hostile and untrustworthy and the […]

Abstract This is a descriptive quantitative research, whose objective was to characterize the relatives of children in a children’s inpatient unit at a hospital in the city of Taubaté-SP and known as the companion evaluates the care received by him during the child’s hospitalization. The project was approved by the Ethics in Research of the University of Taubaté, in the CEP / UNITAU Nº 026/08. The sample consisted of 77 attendants. Data were collected through a form with closed and […]

Abstract This is a qualitative study that had as objective to understand the experience of being mother of a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD. The subjects were five mothers of children with ADHD syndrome. The children were attending a municipal school of elementary education, in the municipality of Guapiassu, in the state of Sao Paulo. The methodology utilized was qualitative analysis of content and, data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The data analysis revealed that having a child […]

Abstract To reflect over the hospital class as a child’s right or the institution’s obligation one needs to emphasize its importance for the child’s development. One of the school child’s most remarkable characteristic is the industriousness sense acquired mainly through formal education. This is a period marked by intellectual growth and child’s first commitment with a social group. Studies carried out with children with chronic diseases have shown that sequence to curricular activities is what they missed the most after […]

Abstract Objectives: to elaborate a guidebook for family caregivers with information about the management of the central venous semi-implantable catheters at home. Methodology: phase I: a literature review at databases Medline, OVID and LILACS to access theoretical evidences; phase II: the elaboration of a protocol of catheter’s management. Phase III a guidebook was elaborated based on the protocol. Conclusion: the involvement of the family in the care is relevant to improve the treatment at home with correct information of how […]

Abstract This study aimed to identify how mothers perceive the sleep of infants taking part at the Grupo Terapêutico de Massagem e Estimulação de Bebês (Therapeutical Massage and Infant Stimulation Group – GTMEB), one of the levels of activities of the Extension Project Grupo de Massagem e Estimulação de Bebês( Infant Massage and Stimulation Group GMEB),we have used a phenomenological qualitative study designed based on the following question: How do you see your baby’s sleep? Infant sleep for mothers is […]

Abstract The pediatric nursing consultation has the aim to follow and assess the growing and development of children. The attendance to child and his/her family is a challenge to the health team, making it necessary the follow-up of the child by orientating and providing support so that an assistance which is planned, individualized and of quality with the socio-economical resource of the community he/she is in takes place. Identify what the perception of the children’s companions who need the pediatric […]

Abstract It is about a qualitative research with the objective to catch how the nursing and family caring in the assistance to the hospitalized child is outlined. Its objective is to understand how it has been conducted in real practice the involving of the family in this caring dimension. The field research was held through a semi-structured interview with the nursing staff of a school hospital. The analysis of the empirical material was submitted to an ordering, classification and the […]

Abstract Qualitative descriptive study with the purpose of describing the reactions that mothers experience upon being told that a disability has been diagnosed in their newborn. Data were collected by applying semistructured interviews to seven mothers whose children have disabilities and are provided care at Associação Pestalozzi in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. The discourses of the mothers were organized into theme units and categorized according to Bardin. The impact of the diagnosis of disability of one’s child is painful and […]

Abstract The prevention of health care-associated infections must be a priority of nursing care provided to critically ill children to promote patient safety. The ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is related with higher rates of morbidity and mortality and the oropharyngeal colonization by pathogens is a risk factors. This study aimed to describe an oral care protocol to children submitted to mechanical ventilation that included scientific evidences produced by different areas of knowledge, in order to identify recommendations and the best practice […]