Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing (Dec 2009)
Nursing practice in emergency care: systematic review
Abstract
<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1107304683 0 0 159 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: " lang="EN-US">The objective of the present study was to characterize and analyze the Brazilian literature on nursing practice in emergency care at health services in Brazil. This systematic literature review was performed using the following keywords: <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">emergency nursing, nurse’s role, emergency medical services, primary health care and health services; and resulted in 18 articles. The databases used were </span>LILACS, MEDLINE and BDENF, between 2003 and 2008. Results show that most studies are performed at emergency hospitals, investigations emphasize on aspects related to nursing workers’ health, and only a few studies focus specifically on nursing practice in the other components established by the National Policy for Emergency Care. These results highlight the need for further research with a view to identify and discuss on the limits and possibilities related nursing knowledge and practice at different health care levels, which would contribute to forming a health care network in which one service complements the action of another by means of emergency care mechanisms that have been organized and agreed upon.</span></p><!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} > <! [endif] ><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: " mce_style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: " lang="EN-US">The following study aimed to characterize and analyze the scientific production related to nursing work in the attention to emergencies in Brazilian health services. It is a systematic review of the literature, using the descriptors nursing in emergency, role of the nursing Professional, medical emergency services, primary health attention, and health services; at a total of 18 papers. The electronic bases researched were LILACS, MEDLINE, and BDENF, between the years 2003 and 2008. The results highlight the concentration of the publications in hospital environments of the attention to emergencies, the emphasis on the investigations on the aspects related to nursing workers’ health and the scarcity of studies focusing specifically the work on nursing for the other components set by the National Policy for Attention to Emergencies. These results lead to the need of new researches aiming to identify and discuss the limits and possibilities with regard to the knowledge in nursing at the different levels of attention capable of contributing to the establishment of an assistant net in which each service complements the action of the other through organized and linked mechanisms to the attention to emergencies. </sp-->
