A educação permanente como instrumento para a melhoria de indicadores assistenciais para profissionais de enfermagem que atuam em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva

Abstract

The Continuing Education as a tool for improvement of Assistance indicators to Intensive Care Units Nursing Professionals is the subject of this research, whose aim is to highlight the importance of continuing education as a tool in improving quality indicators, highlighting nursing participation in strategies to improvements in assistance in intensive care units. To achieve this goal, the question that guides this study is: How can permanent education contribute to the nursing team work processes within an adult intensive care unit? To answer this question, we resorted to the integrative literature, performed by consulting scientific articles on websites such as Lilacs (from BIREME - Latin American and Caribbean Information Center on Health Sciences), Scientific Electronic Library Online - Scielo, as also other conventional sources. As continuing education propitiates updating and contact with new knowledge, it becomes indispensable for the achievement of quality and organizational goals. When it comes to adult ICU's nurse, it keeps the professional updated in his (or her) role, use of new technologies and tools, medicines, care, relationships technics, among other essential aspects to the desired success.