No período de 6 a 8 de outubro de 2009 realizou-se na cidade de Florianópolis – SC o III Congresso Brasileiro de Enfermagem Pediátrica e Neonatal (CEBEPN) e XVI Encontro Catarinense de Enfermagem Pediátrica (ECENPE). O evento é uma atividade bienal promovida pela Sociedade Brasileira de Enfermeiros Pediatras – SOBEP organizada, nesta ocasião, pelo Departamento de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Serviço de Enfermagem em Pediatria e Neonatologia do Hospital Universitário-UFSC e Diretoria de Enfermagem do […]

Abstract The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) presents an environment with several potential sources of risk to the professionals. This way, we carried out a study aiming at identifying the musculo-skeletal risks to the health professionals that work in a NICU. This is a descriptive study. It was developed in a NICU from the Public Health System of a municipality from Sao Paulo State. The data was collected through a semi-structured guide of observations. After observation and data analysis of […]

Abstract The study aimed to identify the knowledge in the scientific literature available on interventions geared to the premature development. We performed a literature search in databases systems involving national and international journals published in the period 1997 to 2007. The data were categorized into five areas: pre-natal care and prevention of fetal and neonatal risk, and prematurity as a risk factor for development; reasons of care focused development and interventions geared to the premature. The results point to the […]

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 This is a reflection on safe transport of children from an event that happened today with the aim of provoking a debate on the topic. The author reveals her thinking about the problem and proposes that the child should always remain in the driver’s visual field, so that he/she do not be “forgotten” and that motor vehicles do not be sealed with films that prevent the vision out of the car, because of the false sense of security it […]