Processo de enfermagem: uma análise a luz das melhores práticas

Abstract

The Nursing Process (NP) is a methodological instrument used to make care systematized, with the objective of promoting quality care provided to patients. In line with the best practices conceptions, the literature of the area indicates that the use of PE provides individualized assistance, visibility for nurses' actions and enhances the theoretical knowledge of professionals who will perform the respective steps of the process. This study aimed to analyze the perception of nurses from an Adult Intensive Care Unit, a Teaching Hospital about the implementation / implementation of the Nursing Process (PE) and its respective stages from the perspective of the development of a best practice. Descriptive exploratory qualitative research was used, considering as a collection instrument guiding questions applied in a focus group. The research participants were a total of seven intensive care unit (ICU) nurses, respecting the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data were collected in the second half of 2019 in September, considering the content analysis of Bardin (2012). Through the analysis, two categories emerged: “The creation of a model to operationalize the Nursing Process in clinical practice: The development of a best practice”, and, “Sustaining the implementation of an EP technology in clinical practice: The guideline best practices, “discussing issues that arose during the speeches. It can be concluded that from the nurses' perspective on the operationalization developed to implement the NP, the nurses mention characteristics that give the attributes of a best practice, therefore, it is implicit the relevance of this type of study that allows to analyze proposals of new technologies to put consistent practice of the EP methodology and that integration between educational institutions and health service is important so that studies continue to be carried out to improve professionals and students aiming at the quality of patient care.