Infecção no período puerperal: implicações para a enfermagem

Abstract

Nursing is a profession focused on the care of people at different stages of life, the act of caring is the essence in making the nurse, and has a concern with the search priority set in their midst. In this sense, the maternal considered a sensitive indicator of the quality of life of a population is one. This study is an integrative literature review that aimed to describe the most common infections that a woman is exposed during the postpartum period, investigated in national and international publications in the health field, and identify the level of scientific evidence of each article. For the selection of studies have used three databases, ScienceDirect, Pubmed and Lilacs. The time frame was 2009 to 2013 and the sample consisted of 19 articles related to puerperal infection. Data were collected from the second half of September to the first of October. The studies identified that more than half of the papers in Brazil. Two studies identified nurses as authors. Most of the studies serving journals was the medical area. Twelve studies showed no experimental design, three were case study and four presented experimental design. The main puerperal infections were found endometritis, urinary infection, surgical site infection, puerperal sepsis, mastitis, the cervicitis. The results showed that more research is needed with experimental design, especially regarding the area of nursing. Rigorous evaluation of women postpartum, the appropriate approach to prevention of puerperal infection and / or management of interventions in patient care with infectious morbidity, underpin essential actions nurse in obtaining a safer nursing care, quality, to promote the role of women in this important stage of his life and it provides autonomy in relation to their sexual and reproductive rights contributing to the reduction of maternal mortality.