Gerência do cuidado na prevenção de lesões por pressão: estudo de intervenção educativa

Abstract

The occurrence of pressure injuries in health institutions is considered an aggravation, since they generate risks for the patient, high costs for health facilities and considerably increase the workload for the health team. Faced with this becomes the knowledge of the teams regarding care for the prevention and treatment of this type of injury. Investing in the prevention of this type of injury through the adoption of strategies such as in-service training is fundamental to reduce its occurrence. Considering that the use of technological innovations contributes to improve the quality, efficacy and safety of the care provided in addition to facilitating the communication and qualification of health professionals, it was defined as a product the elaboration of a Blog for the guidance of health and nursing professionals about the care actions aimed at the prevention of pressure injuries. In this context, the use of an interactive tool as a tool for continuing education in nursing was disseminated to disseminate care management actions to patients with and/or at risk of developing pressure injuries. The research question raised was: Is the re improvement in nurses and nursing technicians level of knowledge on pressure injuries after the implementation of the educational intervention in comparison to the professionals in the control group? To answer the research problem, the following objectives were formulated: Raise the knowledge of nursing professionals about pressure injuries; To evaluate the impact of educational actions regarding nursing team knowledge about pressure injuries/ulcers; Elaborate blog for the orientation of the actions of management of the care directed to the prevention of injuries / pressure ulcers. This is a cross-sectional, quantitative, quasi-experimental study with an anterior-posterior non-equivalent control group design. A total of 18 nurses and 84 nursing technicians participated in the study. Data collection was performed from August to October 2016, using a form with socio-demographic variables and a questionnaire to evaluate knowledge about pressure injuries by Pieper and Mott. The data were organized in Excel spreadsheets and analyzed by the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences – SPSS 21. The research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of HUAP/UFF under no. 149/2010. Preliminary results indicated similarity between the intervention and control groups in the pre-test. In the post-test phase the intervention group presented improvement in the knowledge of the subject, demonstrating that the educational intervention had an impact on the knowledge of the team