A atuação do enfermeiro nos rounds de uma unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal visando à segurança do paciente

Abstract

A good nurse is endowed with numerous qualities, including the organization of thoughts and ideas, good coordination with the entire multidisciplinary team and good insights for solving everyday problems. In a neonatal intensive care unit, in the care of premature babies and babies with acute and chronic pathologies, these qualities are basically prerequisites. However, the presence of such professionals in deciding on the therapeutic plan for newborns (NBs) in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is still somewhat unknown, especially when linked to the participation of this professional in round practice. This practice is used to discuss cases, interaction of the multidisciplinary team on various issues pertinent to the care, recovery and prognoses of newborns, such as: medication dose, volume and type of diet, type of care that this newborn needs. At different times, the nurse is the professional who least punctuates or shows his opinions and the most possessor of information about the general and detailed condition of the NB. This study sought to describe the role and self-perception of nurses in a neonatal intensive care unit, how they made their contributions within the multidisciplinary team in order to show that their participation and performance were essential and that they were needed . This is a qualitative-quantitative, descriptive, exploratory study, carried out in a NICU of a maternity hospital at a federal university.