CONFORTANDO E CUIDANDO NA UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA PEDIÁTRICA: Implementação de escala para avaliação da dor

• Autor(a) principal: Santini, Alessandra Marin
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional Universidade Franciscana
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede.universidadefranciscana.edu.br:8080/handle/UFN-BDTD/627
• topic: Conforto; Medição da dor; Teoria de Enfermagem; Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica.; Comfort; Pain Measurement; Nursing Theory; Intensive Care Units, Pediatric.; Saúde Materno Infantil

The care given to a child seriously sick and in an Pediatric Intensive Therapy Unit must provide comfort to her. So, to operationalize the main study, still in the research project elaboration, it was done an opinion research searching for a first contact with the study object, resulting in the article entitled “Nurse perceptions in the pain evaluation in the pediatric intensive therapy unit”. After that, it was done a basis review with the aim of adding content referring to the Comfort thematic and to the Kolcaba Theory, main reference of this study, which originated the article “ Scientific contribution of the national nursing based on the Theory of Comfort by Kolcaba: an integrative review”. The results obtained in the opinion research and in the integrative review sustained the elaboration of the main proposal of this dissertation with the aim of implementing the use of the pain scale by nurses to improve the evaluation of the 5th vital signal in children at PITU, promoting the comfort based on the Theory of Kolcaba. The specific objectives were to analyse with the nurses the care that can be given to release the pain and promote comfort of children at PITU and describe the potentialities and weaknesses emerged in the process of implementation of the pain scale. A research of a descriptive exploratory type, with a qualitative design, being the action research in the modality of participant, elected as the investigative means to the process of development of this study. Twelve nurses from a PITU from the South of Brazil participated. The data collection occurred from July to November, 2016 by the generation of meetings and interviews to which two scales were used in the pilot test, being afterwards elected the most adequate scale for the unity. The data were grouped in categories and after that, in units of analysis. The results were grouped in two main thematic: I) the perceptions motivated by the implementation of the Pain Scale and II) the Pain Scale as co-actor in the promotion of comfort. The use of the Comfort Theory as theoretical basis of this study showed a strict link to the objective chosen, contributing and spreading the true importance in providing the comfort, by means of the improvement of the know-how and the art of doing the assistance in nursing with quality. The findings showed the relevance in the implementation of the pain evaluation scale, for a more effective care in nursing allied to the use of the Comfort Theory to which it contributed with the study object, providing the promotion of physical, psycospiritual, socialcultural and/or environmental comfort for kids highly ill. Therefore, it is emphasized that the product generated by this investigative process was the implementation of the Pain Evaluation Scale in children at PITU.