O Enfermeiro Do Serviço De Urgência E Os Cuidados Pré-Operatórios: Proposta De Melhoria

Pre-operative nursing care is a foundation of the entire peri-operative care process and its importance is reflected in terms of safety and improving the quality of life of the person undergoing surgery. The study in question aims to standardize nursing care for people in need of urgent/emergent surgery, to improve the effectiveness of preoperative preparation. This is a research/action and observational study, which involved emergency room nurses and patients in need of urgent/emergent surgery. The project was carried out in four phases, first a questionnaire was applied with the aim of identifying the difficulties experienced by nurses in the pre-operative preparation, then training was carried out for the team and a new questionnaire was applied to validate its effectiveness, and by Lastly, the incidence of registration in SClinico® of the preoperative verification protocol was evaluated. The results obtained indicate that the main difficulties identified by nurses in carrying out preoperative care were time management, lack of privacy and lack of adequate space. And that, after the training, there was an increase in the number of registrations in SClinico® of the aforementioned protocol. The evidence obtained allows us to affirm that continuing education is vitally important for patient safety and quality nursing care.