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[Nursing in puericulture: uniting assistance methodologies to promote infant nutritional health]
Marciele Moreira da Silva1, Lívia Rocha, Silvana de Oliveira Silva
1URI, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. marciele.ms@bol.com.br
Insights
Puericulture, a child care approach, effectively monitors infant growth and development. Nurses utilize appointments and home visits to promote healthy nutritional habits within family and cultural contexts.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Public Health Nursing
Context:
- Childcare services in a family health unit in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
- Focus on monitoring children's growth and development.
Purpose:
- To report nurses' experiences in childcare using puericulture.
- To promote infant nutritional health through educative and care actions.
Summary:
- Nurses employed appointments and home visits as key strategies.
- The approach integrated lived experiences with existing literature.
- Utilized a problematization-based educational proposal considering the child within their family and cultural environment.
Impact:
- Facilitated tailored assistance addressing individual child needs and possibilities.
- Successfully promoted infant nutrition and stimulated healthy eating habits.
Abstract:
Puericulture consists in a suitable tool to the full monitoring of children's growth and development This article reports the experience of nurses acting in childcare in a family health unit in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The appointments with the nurses as well as the home visit were strategies taken in order to provide educative and care actions to promote infant nutritional health. The present work attempted to articulate the lived experiences and the bibliography about this theme. It is concluded that the usage of these care methodologies subsidized by an educative proposal of problematization, which considers the child inside his/her family and its culture, allows the promotion of a special assistance towards the needs and possibilities of each child in order to promote infant nutrition stimulating healthy nutritional habits.
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