A educação permanente em saúde para a promoção da segurança do paciente pediátrico

Abstract

The present study aims at permanent education as a strategy to promote the safety of pediatric patients. Its objectives were to verify the most significant adverse event (AE) of a Pediatric Inpatient Unit; develop and implement permanent education actions to promote pediatric patient safety; develop, with the team, a bundle as a strategy to promote pediatric patient safety. This is a qualitative study, of the Convergent Assistance Research (PCA) type. The research participants were nurses, nurses resident in pediatrics, nursing technicians and a doctor in a Pediatric Inpatient Unit. The research was submitted to the appreciation and approval of the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and the Research Ethics Committee of the Hospital Naval Marcílio Dias. It was developed in four stages: document analysis to survey and select the most significant AE in the pediatric hospitalization unit, between the years 2015 to 2020 and according to the six international goals, together with the institution’s Patient Safety Nucleus (PSN). In the second stage, participant observation took place with the holding of two Permanent Education Workshops in the months of September and November 2020, to present the occurrence of fall as the most significant AE of the study. In the third stage, the construction of the products of this study was carried out: a bundle for the prevention of falls in pediatrics; a folder for the prevention of falls in the Pediatric Inpatient Unit; a poster alerting to pediatric beds and a term of clarification and science regarding the risk of falling in the Pediatric Inpatient Unit. In the fourth stage, product validations were carried out by the participants of this study. It was concluded that Permanent education in health (EPS) and active learning methodologies were able to sensitize pediatric professionals for the implementation of safe practices in favor of the child, preventing AE and promoting the safety of pediatric patients.