The nursing process in an obstetric center: Perspective of nurses

Abstract

Objective: to apprehend the nurses’ perception about the Nursing Process and the nursing history model performed with the pregnant woman/parturient in the obstetric center of a hospital in southern Brazil. Method: an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, with the participation of thirteen nurses who work in the Obstetric Emergency or Obstetric Center. The data was collected from December 2014 to March 2015, through a workshop, a semi-structured individual interview and the completion of an instrument with suggestions for the elaboration of a new nursing history model. The data was analyzed through the Bardin’s content analysis. Results: the following categories emerged: importance and necessity of the Nursing Process; fragmentation, discontinuity, incompleteness and mechanization of the Nursing Process-damages to humanization; and limitations and shortcomings in the approach and structure of the nursing-indicative history for its restructuring. Conclusion: the nurses of the study understand that the quality of the Nursing Process will achieve improvements based on a new historical proposal, and that the nursing diagnoses, instrumentalize and guide the care process.