Reflexão acerca da passagem de plantão: implicações na continuidade da assistência de enfermagem

Abstract

By empirical observation of practice, the shift change has been considered a routine with great tendency to trivialization. Sometimes this process is disorganized and time-consuming way. With this, the team fails to address important aspects of the patient's condition as well as relevant aspects of the unit. In order to achieve excellence in the quality of health care services and the quest for patient safety a priority path, then comes a restlessness to provide a reflection on the shift change , since this procedure allows the continuity of nursing care. This is a literature review of qualitative character, having as criteria for the choice of references, selection of materials related to the theme, such as publications from 2002 to 2013. Scientific, thesis, technical and other media texts articles were used. To perform the research used queries several databases such as Scielo, Lilacs, Bireme and textbooks.