SYSTEMATIZATION OF NURSING CARE FOR PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGICAL PATIENTS IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN THE INTERIOR OF THE AMAZON

Abstract

Childhood cancer is defined as a set of distinct pathologies groups with different causes, manifestations, treatments and prognoses. The exercise of oncologicaldisease, withina proposal established by the multidisciplinary team has become more comprehensiveand complex, since care promotes health care in a reasoned and organized way. Nurses must establish a relationship with patients and families through effective communication, humanizing care, ensuring the control of symptoms, measures to relieve suffering and support family members in the treatment process. OBJECTIVE:  This study aimedtodescribe the systematization of nursing care to pediatric cancer patients in a regional hospital in the interior of the Amazon, inthe city of Santarém-Pará. MATERIALS AND METHODS:  A field research is   characterized, with a quantitative approach that seeks to investigate and describe the systematization of nursing care to pediatric cancer patients. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS: The results showed a higher rate among children aged between 08 and 10 years and higher rate for males of patients diagnosed with cancer. It was also evidenced that in relation to the analysis of the most frequent nursing-ED diagnoses, a total frequency of 71 occurrence of ED records was obtained, signaling more than one Nursing Diagnosis per patient. And regarding the most frequent nursing prescriptions, the research showed that the nursing interventions proposed for the identified diagnoses were elaborate or are in accordance with what is proposed from each basic needs, proposed by the NIC.  CONCLUSION:  Therefore, the use of the Systematization of Nursing Care-SAE, are factors that contribute to the development of an adequate and quality systematization, reporting the importance of nurses on such knowledge and skills, because the use of SAE ensures to contribute and guide nursing care and interventions, according to the needs of the patient, with a focus on the humanization of care, providing better quality in care.