The objective of this study was to analyze the proxemic communication between nursing team and the newborn hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It is a descriptive, exploratory study carried out in a Public Hospital in July 2009, in Fortaleza- Ceará. The sample consisted of 44 interactions involving newborns and nursing workers. For data analysis, it was used the proxemic theory, which deals...
This study aimed to assess the knowledge of nursing professionals on the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in newborns, the complications caused by this use and the accomplished interventions. This is a descriptive research with quantitative approach carried out in the municipal district of Juazeiro do Norte-CE-Brazil, in May 2010, in the neonatal intensive care unit and in the neonatal intermed...
The objective was to assess urine collection methods through cotton in contact with genitalia and urinary collector to measure urinary density in newborns. This is a quantitative intervention study carried out in a neonatal unit of Fortaleza-CE, Brazil, in 2010. The sample consisted of 61 newborns randomly chosen to compose the study group. Most neonates were full term (31/50.8%) males (33/54%). Data on urinary...
The objective was to identify the drugs used during lactation acompanhadas among women in a primary care unit. Quantitative study carried out with 132 lactating mothers of a basic health unit. Data were collected through a questionnaire with objective questions and subjective August-October 2011. The nursing mothers used medication along the breast feeding 105 (80%), while 27 (20%) did not use any kind of medic...
This is a descriptive, exploratory study which aimed to analyze the proxemic communication of the mother-child binomial in a Neonatal Intensive Therapy Unit-ITU in Fortaleza-Ceará from October to November 2006. The sample consisted of 20 mothers and 20 newborn babies. Six factors from Hall’s Proxemic Theory were used. The results showed three interaction angles between mothers and newborns: eighteen mothers wer...
Ana Ruth Macedo.; The aim of this study was to investigate the feelings of mothers facing the death of her newborn child and describe the family support as well as nursing care to the mothers. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study. The subjects were 11 mothers with children hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in Fortaleza, who had a neonatal death. Data was col...
Aim: To analyze the verbal and nonverbal communication of nursing professionals with newborns during arterial punctures and calcaneus, from the perspective of health promotion. Method: A descriptive study, conducted in March 2012, which considered 27 interactions involving nurses and newborns. Results: data were organized into two themes: verbal communication of nursing professionals before, during and after th...
Objective: Understand mother’s look about the pain of the child hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Method: this is a descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, conducted with 28 mothers of newborns (NBs) in a public hospital in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, in June and July 2011. For obtaining and analyzing data, we adopted the steps of Paterson and Zderad’s Phenomenological Nursing. The st...
Objective: to measure the pain of newborn infants who underwent venous puncture and identify nursing care. Method: this is a quantitative, cross-sectional, and observational study carried out in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, with 110 newborn infants and 110 nursing professionals. A form and the Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) were used. The data were organize...
The objective was to assess urine collection methods through cotton in contact with genitalia and urinary collector to measure urinary density in newborns. This is a quantitative intervention study carried out in a neonatal unit of Fortaleza-CE, Brazil, in 2010. The sample consisted of 61 newborns randomly chosen to compose the study group. Most neonates were full term (31/50.8%) males (33/54%). Data on urinary...