Vários enfermeiros pediatras de diversas regiões do País, reunidos em 09 de outubro de 1996, durante o 48° Congresso Brasileiro de Enfermagem da Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, realizado na cidade de São Paulo, fundaram a Sociedade Brasileira de Enfermeiros Pediatras (SOBEP). Ela tem como propósito congregar enfermeiros que atuam assistindo/cuidando, ensinando e pesquisando na área da criança e adolescente, tendo dentre outras, as seguintes finalidades: a) promover o desenvolvimento técnico, científico e cultural da enfermagem pediátrica; b) promover a união […]

Abstract The oxygenotherapy is a procedure implemented by the nursing staff, which works at pediatric unit. So, The workers must know the most proper device to provide oxygen concentration, what children need, and put in evidence the essential care to implement that therapy. We have concluded, it is also important to consider the oxygen as a medication; like other kind of medicine, the oxygen is a therapeutic and has side effects, and its efficacy will depend on the way of […]

Abstract This is a descriptive study was idealized from teachers’ observation of pediatric nursing during the clinical teaching. They perceived that the pediatric intravenous punction was implemented at the same way, where the most important thing was the time to realize this nursing procedure. The main goal is to show relevant points must be observed during the pediatric intravenous punction, based on physiological and emotional aspects. Considering that this nursing procedure is a great challenge for the nursing team, specially […]

Abstract With the implantation of the Committee for Prevention of childhood Mortality in the State of Paraná, a work has been launched in order to investigate about these deaths. In the 15ᵃ Regional de Saúde of the State, where there is a predominance of precocious mortality for the newborns, the deaths of newborns wuith less than 1.500g represent one third of the infantile deaths in the early months of 1999. Being so a high rate it would be necessary to […]

Abstract The present descriptive survey was intended to identify the index of early weaning in infants attended by the Nursing Consultation service in the “Centro Assistencial Cruz de Malta” located in São Paulo, Brazil, in the year of 1995. The study included the early weaning infant’s age, the mothers’reasons for early weaning, and the adopted feeding conducts. Data were collected from the children’s records and the results demonstrated a high index of early weaning and unsuitable feeding conducts since the […]