ASSERTIVE PROPEDEUTICAS IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, IN THE INSERTION OF THE PERIPHERAL INSERTION CENTRAL CATHETER PERFORMED BY NURSES

Abstract

This study has as research line nursing education and predominant area nursing in the health care of children and adolescents. It is known that the Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) is considered of paramount importance in nursing care because it presents several benefits to patients assisted, especially neonates. This is a considerably new procedure, resulting from technological advances in the health area and which, through the support of COFEN resolution no. 258/2001, can be performed by a nurse at the bedside. Currently, studies show that complications often occur due to the lack of professional qualification on the part of nurses and the nursing team that usually handles and maintains the catheter. From this premise, it emerged as a guiding question what would be the good practices and benefits in the use of the Central Catheter of Peripheral Insertion in neonatal intensive care unit by the nurse. Given this, having as object of research the practices and benefits related to the insertion and handling of PICC by the Nurse in neo ICU, the general objective of this study is to identify, through the literature, what appropriate practices to be used by nurses in the use and management of the PICC catheter. Therefore, regarding the methodology, it is an integrative review-type research, of a basic nature, based on secondary sources.