O papel da enfermagem frente à prevenção e promoção à saúde de crianças que frequentam creches: uma revisão integrativa.

Abstract

The care for the child was of family responsibilities, especially mothers. However, with the inclusion of women in the labor market, households needed to find solutions for child care. In view of this, the children began to attend kindergartens and to experience full-time and are therefore susceptible to illness due to overcrowding of children and the immaturity of the immune system itself of the growth process of the same. Therefore, the inclusion of nurses in kindergarten is very important because aside from taking care of children holistically, providing health education with educators and family, making effective promotion and prevention of health of the public. Objective: General - summarize the scientific knowledge produced between the years 2009 and 2015 on the role of the nursing prevention and health promotion of children attending day care centers. Specific - To characterize the studies reviewed in the databases as the author, the year the journal, the data bases or electronic library and the type of study; Identifying nursing actions in prevention and health promotion of children attending day care centers. Methodology: This is an integrative literature review, carried out in April 2015, from the Virtual Health Library (bvs) in the database Medical Literature analysisand Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), Nursing Database (BDENF) and electronic library Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). It was used as a search strategy: "Health child AND Nursing AND Day Care" and "Health AND nursing child." The inclusion criteria were defined studies which would deal about the role of the nursing to health promotion and prevention of children who attend day care centers; national and international publications; Portuguese, English and Spanish, with the 2009 publication time 2015; available in full and published in journals of Nursing. The sample consisted of seven articles. Results and Discussion: The studies point to the importance of the interaction between health and education, highlighting the work of nurses in the scenario of day care centers. Some studies show that parents find it difficult to lead children to the health services for child care consultation, and having the nurse in the nursery this monitoring would not be interrupted. Other studies have found that educators and families carry with doubts and taboos regarding the care of children's health. In addition, many teachers do not have specific training in health to exercise promotion and disease prevention in the institutions. Conclusion: It can be seen that health institutions need to provide training for educators of day care centers, as well as insert this environment, offering children better care and quality of life. Faced with that evidence, it points up the need for more research on this subject. Thus, it is believed that this study will contribute to the prevention and promotion to children's health in the nursing education institutions in order to strengthen the partnership between health and education professionals.