NURSING PROCESS DIRECTED TO NEWBORNS IN A USUAL RISK MATERNITY WARD: NURSES' PERCEPTIONS

PROCESO DE ENFERMERÍA DIRIGIDO A RECIÉN NACIDOS EN UNA MATERNIDAD DE RIESGO HABITUAL: PERCEPCIONES DE ENFERMERAS

ABSTRACT

Objective:   to know nurses' perception in relation to the Nursing Process directed to newborns in a usual risk maternity ward.

Method:   an action-research study was conducted between September 2021 and January 2022 with nurses from a usual risk maternity ward in southern Brazil. The data collected through focus groups were submitted to content analysis.

Results:   the organized and analyzed data resulted in two thematic categories, namely: Nursing process: a self-reflection and self-criticism inducing device; and Nursing process: a (re)signifying care tool for newborns. In synthesis, it is shown that the Nursing Process is a driver of best practices in the Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing context.

Conclusions:   the Nursing Process directed to the care of newborns in a usual risk maternity ward is not only constituted as a theoretical-methodological tool to guide and qualify the care provided, but as a self-reflection and professional self-criticism inducing technology, with a view to the development of new knowledge and practices both in the scope of management and in Nursing care.

DESCRIPTORS: Nursing Process Hospitalized Child; Pediatric Nursing; Newborn