Avaliação e tratamento de feridas : o conhecimento adquirido durante a graduação em enfermagem

Abstract

Caring for the wounded patient is a dynamic and complex process that depends onsystematized evaluations and care directed to the specifications of the patient and injury, according to their ethology, bed characteristics and evolution of the wound healing process. In this process, the nurse acts as the main agent that assumes responsibility from the evaluation of the injury, to the choice of the appropriate treatment to be used in a certain type of injury, orientation and supervision of the nursing staff in the execution of the dressing (FERREIRA et al., 2008) . Given the tangents of the nurses' performance, the nursing student in the context of graduation must adapt in order to be able to aggregate all the knowledge acquired, planning and implementing interventions that are decisive and assertive, given the responsibility they tend to feel Unprepared for: associations of knowledge, decision making, accountability in this academic-nursing process. The aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge of the students of the 9th semester of the Nursing undergraduate course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso - Sinop campus, about the evaluation and treatment of wounds. It is an exploratory research, of a basic nature, quantitative-qualitative approach, carried out through field study. Students who met the inclusion criteria were selected as the 100% sample (academics duly enrolled in the 9th semester of nursing at UFMT / Sinop), were excluded from the study that were not attending the last semester of graduation. Data were collected through interviews with objective and discursive semistructured questions that addressed questions about teaching and nursing care practices, from evaluation to treatment. The data were analyzed and interpreted in a systematized way, through basic descriptive statistics. Later they were codified, categorized and interpreted, followed by discussion with theoretical basis. The data show that the respondents correspond to what several literatures and studies point out, the great majority do not feel prepared for decision making due to several factors.