Intervenções paliativas realizadas pelos enfermeiro num serviço de urgência aos utentes com doença crónica, avançada e progressiva

Abstract

Introduction: The emergency service is intrinsically linked to criticism advocated
situations for healing attitudes, we should dedicate ourselves to an equally increasingly to the appreciation of the need for the nature care not only curative, given the complexity of health conditions/disease people the increasing longevity of the population and the consequent increase of incurable, progressive and advanced character diseases, so emerges the question that gave the starting point for conducting this research – What palliative interventions are performed by nurses in the emergency department. Aiming to identify the palliative interventions by professionals serving on S.U.
Methodology: quallitative study of exploratory and descriptive, with the target population all the nurses who had functions in the emergency room for more than two years and not belonging to other services and/or by rotation were displaced for the same. The data collection method was performed through document analysis for nursing quotes by Bardin content analysis technique, defining a priori users that would focus the analysis of records applied to the triangulation of the results obtained by applying a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview script.
Results: We analyzed 53 nursing records relating to 17 users who flocked to S.U. during the period of the one month and 18 nurses who agreed to participate in the study. The results obtained by traingulating data identified interventions/remedial actions taken by nurses to the users with chronic, incurable and progressive disease. If identified control with regard to pain, confort mesures and mention of family support are referred by nurses,
although in terms of records does not occur.
Conclusions: Talk about palliative care in emergency services, will always be a topic that will raise questions, misunderstandings about its feasibility in stricktly technologic services. There is no sectoring the person presented to us when we take care, there are precautions that can be combined for a better approach to be patient with chronic, incurable, progressive disease in emergency rooms nationwide.

Date of Award	3 Mar 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Manuel Luís Capelas (Supervisor)