Praticas educativas utilizadas pelos enfermeiros no cuidado de mulheres com câncer de mama

Abstract

SILVA, M.F.S.S. Educational practices used by nurses in the care of women with breast cancer. 2012. 66 f. Monograph (Specialization in Nursing) - School of Nursing, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,2012. Breast cancer is the second most frequent type of cancer worldwide and the most common among women. Mastectomy is an aggressive surgical procedure accompanied by traumatic consequences and adverse life experiences which impairs women's health. In this context nursing care in the perioperative period is essential. In order to identify the educational practices used by nurses in the management of women with breast cancer, we carried out an integrative review. The search included the following databases: BDENF, COLLECT-SUS, IBECS, LILACS and MEDLINE. The sample consisted of 16 articles published since 2002 in national and international journals. The studies analyzed approached, mostly based educational practices in the transfer of information created and adopted in order to increase knowledge about the disease, thus providing a basis for its exercise of self-care and coping. The integrative review has revealed that there is paucity of data in the literature on the theme, as well as studies evaluating the results of educational practices implemented. It is thus urgent that researchers develop studies that address the educational practices of care used by nursing to work with women with mastectomies and assess the effectiveness of such practices.