Application of educative manual about skin of the newborn with students of nursing

Abstract

 This study aimed to describe and evaluate, from student’s perspective, the implementation of educative manual about characteristics of the skin of the newborn as strategy into process teaching-learning on course “Nursing in the Process of Care I (Child and Adolescent)”. It was carried out in Fortaleza between January and June 2006 with 42 students from undergraduate Program in Nursing of UFC, who had attended that course between 2005 and 2006. For that, one instrument was applied to evaluate the manual’s structure, language and importance for the nursing practice. From those 42 students, 12 also were in practice at Neonatology field which answered another instrument that registered the evaluation of the students concerning the contribution of the manual on practice with newborn. The manual was evaluated as "satisfactory" about clarity, coherence of the language, and content, by 100% (42) of the subjects. Referring the "quality of photos" 90.5% (38) of the students evaluated it as "satisfactory" and 9.5% (4) as "not satisfactory". The pupils who made practice activities during the research considered the manual as a helper resource to evaluate the skin of the newborn. According results showed, the manual revealed adequate to the target population, as well as it use for the learning of the thematic one.

Key words: Pediatrics nursing; Newborn; Skin; Teaching; Education; Nursing.