Care management in nursing within emergency care units

Objective.Understand the conditions involved in the management of nursing care in emergency care units. Methodology. Qualitative research using the methodological framework of the Grounded Theory. Data collection occurred from September 2011 to June 2012 through semi-structured interviews with 20 pa...

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Main Authors: Roberta Juliane Tono de Oliveira, Patrícia Madalena Vieira Hermida, Fernanda Hannah da Silva Copelli, José Luís Guedes dos Santos, Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann, Selma Regina de Andrade
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Antioquia 2015-12-01
Series:Investigación y Educación en Enfermería
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-53072015000300003&lng=en&tlng=en
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Summary:Objective.Understand the conditions involved in the management of nursing care in emergency care units. Methodology. Qualitative research using the methodological framework of the Grounded Theory. Data collection occurred from September 2011 to June 2012 through semi-structured interviews with 20 participants of the two emergency care units in the city of Florianopolis, Brazil. Results. Hindering factors to care management are: lack of experience and knowledge of professionals in emergency services; inadequate number of professionals; work overload of emergency care units in the urgent care network; difficulty in implementing nursing care systematization, and need for team meetings. Facilitating factors are: teamwork; importance of professionals; and confidence of the nursing technicians in the presence of the nurse. Conclusion. Whereas the hindering factors in care management are related to the organizational aspects of the emergency care units in the urgency care network, the facilitating ones include specific aspects of teamwork.
ISSN:0120-5307