Abstract Objective To develop and validate the content of the Pediatric Alert Score to recognize clínical deterioration in hospitalized children. Methods Methodological study that involved an institutional committee formed by 07 health professionals, a committee of judges composed of 12 professionals from the areas of teaching, research, extension and/or child health care, and 20 children and adolescents aged 29 days to 15 years. There followed stages of conceptual and item adaptation, semantic and operational evaluation and pre-testing. Excel 16.0 was […]

Abstract Objective To carry out the validation of the Instrument for Measuring the Perception of the Family on Access to Information in the Neonatal Unit. Methods Methodological study, carried out with 85 representatives of newborn families hospitalized for more than 72 hours in the neonatal unit. Data were analyzed by psychometrics and inferential analysis. Results The validation of the instrument content by experts obtained agreement above 80%, Cronbach’s alpha of 0.86 and in the factor analysis it generated eight factors, […]

Abstract Objective Reveal the life history of children and adolescents living with chronic illness, based on their own reports. Methods This is a qualitative descriptive study. Thematic oral history was used as a method, and relied on the Atlas.ti 8.0 software to organize data. Results Eight participants were interviewed. Four categories were identified: Changes in life; School break; Impacts and Perspectives and dreams. It was revealed that participants know about the diagnosis and recognize its implications in their daily lives, […]

Abstract Objective To identify risk behaviors of patients in follow-up who underwent cancer treatment. Method Cross-sectional and descriptive study conducted at the Hospital de Câncer de Barretos from 12/20/2018 to 8/28/2019 with survivors of childhood cancer. Results 71 patients were interviewed (52% female) and their ages ranged from 16 to 39 years. Mean time out of therapy was 10 years. More than 50% were working. Overweight was observed in 37.5% of participants between 16 and 19 years old and in […]

Abstract Objective Describe the reasons for hospitalizations for external causes in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Methods This is a descriptive, retrospective research, developed in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a public trauma reference hospital in the city of Salvador, Bahia. Data collection was carried out through the consultation of medical records, guided by a form of own elaboration with information from children and adolescents hospitalized in the year 2018 and 2019. Sociodemographic (age, gender) and clinical (reason for […]

Abstract Objective To describe the knowledge of nursing technicians in relation to the care of the peripherally inserted central catheter in neonatal intensive care. Method Cross-sectional, descriptive study, carried out in a pediatric hospital, between the months of May and June 2019, using a structured questionnaire applied to 39 professionals. Results 97% inform the nurse if the catheter is resistant; 97% permeabilize before and after drug infusion; 94% flush every six hours when in continuous infusion; 69% observe signs of […]

Abstract Objective Understand the perceptions of storytelling from the perspective of hospitalized children. Methods After a brief storytelling, 12 children admitted to a university hospital in the city of São Paulo were interviewed and their testimonies were treated by Bardin’s content analysis method. Project approved by the Research Ethics Committee and authorized by the hospital service management entity. Results Two thematic categories were created “previous storytelling experiences” and “hospital storytelling experience”. In the first category, all children reported previous experiences […]

Abstract Objective To analyze the importance of visits by sisters and brothers of newborns hospitalized in Neonatology Units from the experiences reported in the literature. Methods To provide a reflection on the experiences in the world, a review of articles containing the theme of siblings is carried out, selected for the breadth of the study, whether it is quantitative, qualitative or mixed experience. Conclusion The importance of the implementation of sibling visits in the various hospital centers lies in its […]

Abstract Objective Explain about the development and implementation of the Pediatric Sepsis Managed Protocol in a public university hospital. Methods Descriptive study to report the experience of developing and implementing a pediatric sepsis protocol, built based on the proposal of Convergent Care Research, started in 2017 with an interprofessional team, teachers and students involved in the care of children in the units pediatric patients. Results The implantation and development took place in three stages: pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention and the […]

Abstract Objective Evaluate the factors that interfere with the skin integrity of the hospitalized newborn. Methods Descriptive, cross-sectional research, quantitative approach carried out with 46 newborns in a conventional neonatal intermediate care unit of a public tertiary hospital, in Fortaleza-Ceará, from August to October 2020. The data was collected using the Scale of Skin Condition of the Newborn and sociodemographic and clinical forms. It was then statistically analyzed using the binomial, Chi-square, likelihood ratio and Fisher-Freeman- Halton tests. Results It […]

Abstract Objective: Apply the instructional therapeutic toy to hospitalized children for insertion and maintenance of the peripherally inserted central catheter and to identify the family members’ perception about the use of the instructional therapeutic play in the insertion and maintenance of the peripherally inserted central catheter. Method: Qualitative research, characterized as research-care, carried out in inpatient units of a pediatric hospital in southern Brazil. Five children and five family caregivers participated in the study. Data were collected from June to […]

Abstract Objective: Identify how communication process is assessed by nursing team in pediatric emergency area. Methods: Quantitative study, transversal survey type, developed with 75 nursing team professionals of three areas of pediatrics emergency. Data was collected between September and November 2014, using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. This study was approval by Ethic Committee under protocol number 35231514.1.0000.536. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics. Results: There was not found strength areas for patient safety, due to dimensions evaluated […]