Registro das ações de enfermagem na caderneta de saúde da criança: revisão integrativa.

Abstract

The child’s health book let is an instrument, used for any assistance provided for the child as an important document for monitoring their health status. Although to fulfill its job as a monitoring tool for the child’s health status, it is important that the professional make the right and complete record of the information. Goal: Simplify the scientific know ledge of Nursing, between the years of 2005 and 2015, looking for evidences about the record of the nursing actions in the child’s health booklet. Methodology: It is a review of an integrated literature, done between the months of March and July of 2015, in the bases of the Health Science Latin American and Caribbean Literature (LILACS), Base of Data of Nursing (BDENF) in the electronic library Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). As a strategy in the search it was used a crossing descriptor “child health” with “primary attention to health; nursing; immunization; and child’s health booklet”. As inclusion criteria, were delimitated the publications between 2005 and April of 2015; full available articles in English and Portuguese. The sample was composed by 7 articles. Results: Most of the inserted studies in this review happened in the year of 2014, with three (43%) articles, respectively. In relation to the types of studies, the cross-section studies are majority, with qualitative approach. It was analyzed that most of the studies used in this review were made in the basic attention context, and even ten years after the implementation of child’s health booklet, weaknesses in the filling are still pointed out, diverging with from there commended by the Ministry of Health in its manual for the use of child’s health booklet. The studies demonstrate that there cords are made in the book let by the professionals, although are not inserted in the graphics or the growth curves. Only the immunization schedule obtained high rates of filling, reflecting on the other hand a conception of child’s health booklet as the “vaccine card” historically built. In addition, it was found that the child less than six months of age is considered a factor of protection both for the filling of the growth curve and the development curve. This results show the in complete ness of the actions provided for the child. Final Considerations: This review leaves explicit that the professional has used this instrument in an inadequate way with high rates of non-registered data, it also shows the limitations for its use, that covers from the lack of time and professional training from the nurse, socioeconomics factors, biological and geographical related to the child and the family.