Rev. Soc. Bras. Enferm. Ped.2019;19(2):65-73.
Nursing appointments in puericulture in family health strategy
DOI: 10.31508/1676-3793201900009
Abstract
Objective
To analyze the actions developed by the nurse in the puericulture appointment to a child, in units of family health.
Methods
Descriptive research with qualitative approach developed in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with nurses that performed the nursing appointment with a child in a programmatic way in units of family health. 21 appointments were observed between January and February 2012. The data were analyzed by the content analysis technique and resulted in three categories: monitoring of the growth and development; motivation and promotion of mother’s nursing and immunization of the child.
Results
The observation of the appointments allowed to apprehend that the nurses have broad knowledge about the aspects that involve the attention to care of the child, approaching with competence the main lines of childcare proposed by ministerial politics.
Conclusion
The results obtained showed that the majority of nurses evaluate the indispensable aspects to the adequate and complete monitoring of the child.
Keywords: Child care; Child health; Pediatric nursing; Primary Health Care