Criança em risco

: as intervenções do enfermeiro na prevenção dos maus-tratos

Abstract

This report, carried out within the course of the Master's Degree in Nursing in the Area of Specialization of Nursing in Child and Pediatric Health, presents the description, analysis and reflection of the entire course carried out during the internships, which led to the acquisition of personal, competences of nurse specialist in child and youth health, common skills of specialist nurse and master. The main theme of this report is nurse’s interventions for the prevention of child maltreatment, supporting the decision making through the theory about Health Promotion Model of Nola Pender, which identifies and diagrammatize concepts that are determinant for nurses' involvement of the nurse in health promotion. In order to support my practice, a scoping review was also carried out, where I concluded that the most important nurse’s intervention in prevention of child abuse is the identification of their risk signs, which makes early intervention possible avoiding the danger situation in the childhood. In the course of the internships, activities were carried out in order to achieve the objectives proposed by me in each of them, namely: a proposal for a child signaling document for social work in a special care unit for the newborn, which resulted in its implementation by the nursing team; the implementation of an intervention flowchart after identifying signs of risk of child abuse or identification of signals and symptoms of child maltreatment and its implementation in a pediatric oncology service in order to facilitate and stimulate the nursing team intervention in these cases; and the realization and implementation of a document to facilitate the identification of risk signs of child abuse and identification of signals and symptoms of child abuse in order to assist the nursing team in a pediatric emergency department. All the activities carried out fit in health promotion, since by identifying alarm signs suggestive of child abuse risk, we are preventing the danger situation for the child. Therefore, the activities developed in this report are based on the model of the Nola Pender Health Promotion Model. Through the positive results in the activities it is concluded that the theme of this report is extremely relevant. With the sharing and reflection of the lived experiences in internship, as the reflection during the practice, it became possible the acquisition of specialized nursing competences.

Date of Award	17 Sept 2019
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Elisabete Nunes (Supervisor)