Nurse as an integrator in healthcare management of children with chronic condition

ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand the practice of the nurse in healthcare management of children with chronic condition in the hospital setting. Methods: analytical study of qualitative approach with theoretical and methodological reference of institutional ethnography. Developed in the pediatric...

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Main Authors: Deborah Dinorah de Sá Mororó, Rejane Maria Paiva de Menezes, Ana Angélica Rêgo de Queiroz, Carlos Jordão de Assis Silva, Wanesca Caroline Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 2020-04-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672020000300156&tlng=en
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Summary:ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand the practice of the nurse in healthcare management of children with chronic condition in the hospital setting. Methods: analytical study of qualitative approach with theoretical and methodological reference of institutional ethnography. Developed in the pediatric unit of a university hospital, in a municipality in Northeastern Brazil. Data collections techniques were: participant observation, documentary analysis and semi-structured interview. Participants of the study totaled twenty professionals, including nurses, social workers, psychologists, pharmacists, nutritionists, physiotherapists, and doctors. For data analysis, it was used the Bardin's Content Analysis with interface of the Atlas.ti software. Results: categories of analysis were “Nurse as mediator of healthcare management”; “Nursing process as a mechanism of healthcare management”. Final considerations: the nurse proved to be essential for healthcare management of the child with chronic condition, acting as mediator of the relationship between the doctor, the members of the health team, the user and their family.
ISSN:1984-0446