Abstract Aim: verify the applicability of the manual “My Peripheral Intravenous Puncture” according to the nurse’s viewpoint. Method: a descriptive study. The data collection was held during a workshop with the participation of 35 nurses, 80.0% answered a questionnaire regarding to nurse’s identification and the manuals’ assessment. Results: the manual was classified as optimal in clarity of information (60.7%), and ease of understanding (67.8%). Most nurses found that it contains fundamental information for children to understand the intravenous puncture, the […]

Abstract Objective: Understanding the feelings of these mothers, in the daily of hospitalization of their children. Methods: Qualitative study, conducted with ten mothers in a reference hospital in the countryside of Ceará, in December of 2008 through semi-structured interview. Data were organized according to content analysis. Respecting the ethical aspects of research in humans. Results: It was evident especially feelings of sadness, pity, pain, fatigue, desire of being in place of the child and the courage to face this moment. […]

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 […]