CONHECIMENTO DE ENFEMEIRAS SOBRE A CRIANÇA COM DOENÇA FALCIFORME

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Juliane Batista Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Vivian Ranyelle Soares de, Soares, Caroline Fernandes Soares e, Morais , Aisiane Cedraz, Brito, Luana Santana, Carvalho, Evanilda Souza de Santana, Miranda, Juliana Freitas de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/enfermagem/article/view/53939

Sickle cell disease is one of the most prevalent monogenic hereditary diseases in Brazil and in the world, therefore, a public health problem. Objective: To know the perception of nurses about sickle cell disease in pediatrics. Method: Convergent-Assistance qualitative research, which occurred in a public pediatric hospital in the interior of Bahia, in which 12 emergency nurses participated, data production took place between July 2020 and April 2021, after submission the Ethics Committee. The data collection techniques were: survey of knowledge through semi-structured interviews, convergence groups and participant observation. The data were analyzed according to the referential of the Convergent-Assistance Research and its phases: conception, instrumentalization, theorization, transfer and analysis. Results: The results showed that nurses recognize the disease in its main biological manifestation, the pain crisis, which was cited as a striking characteristic of the child with sickle cell disease. Conclusion: Nurses working in the emergency of the research scenario recognize some aspects of sickle cell disease in pediatrics, revealed incipient knowledge about the pathophysiological aspects of the disease. Descriptors: Sickle Cell Disease; Emergencies; Pediatrics; Nursing.