Assistência pré-natal por profissionais de enfermagem no município de Rio Branco - AC: contribuição para o estudo da atenção qualificada no ciclo grávido-puerperal / Prenatal care by nursing professionals in Rio Branco-AC: contribution to the study of qualified care in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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Every year, 120 million pregnancies occur around the world, in which more than half a million women die due to pregnancy or delivery complications and more than 50 million suffer from serious pregnancy-related diseases or disabilities. Various studies appoint that qualified prenatal care can significantly contribute to the reduction of these rates and to promote risk-free motherhood. Objectives: Identify and describe the profile of nursing professionals who participate in prenatal care and analyze the core competencies they develop in practice. Methodology: Descriptive study with a quantitative approach, carried out at 03 Health Centers (HC) and 13 Family Health Units (FHU) in Rio Branco-Acre. The study population consisted of 23 nursing professionals (15 nurses, 02 nurse midwives, 04 nursing technicians and 02 nursing auxiliaries). Data were collected through interviews, as well as systematic and non-participant observation of core competencies in obstetrics. Sixty-one prenatal consultations, 57 pre-consultations and 03 puerperal consultations were observed. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the variables. Results: the interviewed professionals are mostly female (91.30%), with a mean age of 34.3 years; 69.6% are married; 60.87% have six years of professional training, with a mean prenatal care experience of 54.1 months; the mean weekly hour load is 53.26 hours and 52.17% work in more than one institution. At the HC, nursing technicians and auxiliaries are responsible for pre-consultations, but mostly (84.62%) nurses at the FHU. Nurses perform prenatal and puerperal consultations in the two care models. Among the nurses who perform prenatal consultations, only 02 (11.76%) had taken a specialization course in obstetrics, while the remainder (88.24%) received prenatal care training for between 24 and 40 hours. The large majority of the core competencies expected in prenatal care, in this study, was developed, although frequency levels for some were low. The most frequently performed actions and procedures were: BP measurement, weight and height measurement, initial history, fetal heart beat listening, uterine height measurement and request for laboratory exams, while the least frequent were: assessment of nutritional state, clinical breast exam, abdominal palpation to verify fetal position and presentation. Health education activities were not performed. Conclusions: the results revealed that, despite the nursesgood performance, the need for investment in qualified staff training needs to be assessed for care to women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle, and the incorporation of protocols that translate evidence-based standards into obstetric practice needs to be encouraged.

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atenção qualificada nursing team enfermagem obstétrica competência profissional cuidado pré-natal gestação prenatal care obstetric nursing equipe de enfermagem pregnancy qualified care professional competency

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