Protocolo de consulta de enfermagem ao recém-nascido na puericultura no município de Monjolos

Abstract

The protocols are routine health care, prepared by professionals grounded in scientific knowledge and tools drivers of health care and used to facilitate and improve service to users. The study aimed to develop a protocol for nursing consultation newborn Monjolos in the city of Minas Gerais. We performed a search of scientific literature in the period from January to March 2012, using the following databases: MEDLINE, SciELO, BVS, Google Scholar, data from the Family Health Strategy, the Municipal Health Secretariat of the guides Ministry of Health and some protocols already established elsewhere. Were used as inclusion criteria, articles published in Portuguese and from the year 2001. After the selection of articles, publications were submitted to the reading process in accordance with the guidelines of Gil (2007). The proposed protocol provides that the first appointment of the newborn, upon arrival at the hospital, will be performed by nurses based on nursing consultation with details set unique to newborns. The first stage of consultation is the history that has already structured questions, followed by physical examination, nursing diagnoses suitable for newborns with the requirements of nursing care that are specific and ultimately the evolution of nursing care being taken in later queries. The implementation of the protocol for consultation in nursing infants have several contributions in the ESF, resolving and preventing most of these problems in primary care with low-cost technology.