ABSTRACT Objective: To build and validate the Patient Safety Assessment in Medication Administration (ASPAM - Avaliação da Segurança do Paciente na Administração de Medicamentos) tool. Method: Methodological study in which the construction, Content Validation Index (CVI), construct validation (factorial analysis) and reliability were performed in terms of homogeneity (Cronbach’s Alpha). Results: The ASPAM reach...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the preparation and administration of oral medications to institutionalized children by nursing professionals. Method: quantitative study, developed from August to September 2016, in a shelter in Fortaleza, Ceará. 323 observations of preparation and administration of oral drugs were carried out. Interview and non-participant direct observation of the process of drug administratio...
ABSTRACT Objective: To construct a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) about the water balance, to be used by the health team in the care of children hospitalized in a pediatric nephrology unit. Method: The study was carried out in two stages: integrative review of the literature for the development of SOP and validation by specialists. The search for literature occurred in the electronic databases PUBMED, SCOPU...
RESUMO Objetivo: analisar as competências do enfermeiro na prevenção de quedas de crianças hospitalizadas, à luz do Consenso de Galway. Método: estudo transversal, realizado com 40 enfermeiras que atuavam nas unidades abertas de internação de um hospital pediátrico. Coleta dos dados realizada mediante aplicação de um questionário com conteúdo validado. Foram relacionadas as ações executadas pelas enfermeiras, s...