Care for newborn babies and their mother by the nurse during the nursing appointment

Abstract

The nursing appointment is an activity that give an opportunity to the nurse to act directly and independently with the client, characterizing her/him as an independent professional. It was the intention of this study to raise the problems of the newborn and their mothers which demanded nursing intervention and the kind of procedure required during the nursing appointment. The study was carried out at Hospital Universitário da USP (University Hospital) when 2222 nursing appointment done by 14 obstetric nurses in the year of 1983 were analysed. The problems were computed and organized by its similarities and identities and separated in: problems related to patological alteration; problems brought about by the women to herself and to the babies. The total number of care procedures undertaken was of 714, 658 for the newborn and 56 for the mothers. The problems that demanded the largest number of care measures were the ones classified as related to pathological alterations, and the kinds of procedure mostly required were care of the umbelical cord and of cesarian incision.