Nursing care after pediatric cardiac surgery: integrative review

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To identify the role of nurses in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery in pediatric patients. METHODOLOGY: This is an integrative review through the execution of six steps, with sampling carried out through survey and bibliographic analysis, after searching the articles on the VHL site, in the LILACS, MEDLINE, BDENF databases between 2009 and 2018, with a combination of the selected descriptors. RESULTS: From the data emerged two thematic axes: the nurse and his own perception in the care of pediatric patients in the postoperative period, in which he becomes a being-with who assumes the responsibility of ensuring the child a complete care, providing inputs, constantly monitoring and providing comprehensive care; and the main nursing diagnoses and interventions, which range from risk to real diagnoses, guiding the nurse towards prevention, assessment and recovery or rehabilitation. CONCLUSION: The performance of nurses is translated through systematic, complex and thorough conduct, which assumes the responsibility of ensuring the child a complete care, providing inputs, constantly monitoring and providing comprehensive care guided by nursing diagnoses and interventions.