NURSING PROFESSIONAL'S KNOWLEDGE RELATED WITH UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD

Authors

  • Yanet Blanco Fleites Dirección Municipal de Salud. Municipio Cienfuegos
  • Julia Maricela Torres Esperon Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública
  • Ernesto Bernal Valladares Hospital Gustavo Aldereguía Lima

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5354/2452-5839.2019.55434

Keywords:

Knowledge, Accidents, Early childhood, Nursing

Abstract

Introduction: Unintentional early childhood injuries are a health problem in the world. This is demonstrated in the 2012 report of the World Health Organization – WHO, and the United Nations Children’s Fund - UNICEF, where it is explained that more than 2000 children die every day due to unintentional injuries, and tens of millions enter each year with injuries that often leave them disabled for life. Objectives: To identify the level of knowledge of nurses on unintentional injuries in the early childhood, in nursing professionals, and design a training program according to the identified learning needs. Methods: An observational study was carried out from February to April 2016, for the identification of knowledge in 45 nursing professionals working at medical offices of the policlinic family areas V, VI and VII, of the Cienfuegos municipality. The learning needs identified enabled the development and implementation of a course. Results: Of the 45 evaluated, 82.5% do not achieve the necessary knowledge related with unintentional injuries in early childhood. After the course the results were satisfactory. Conclusions: It was identified the need for continuing training in a necessary topic on the Primary Health Attention, alternatives as shown in this paper are feasible to demonstrate this need

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2019-12-05

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Blanco Fleites, Y., Torres Esperon, J. M., & Bernal Valladares, E. (2019). NURSING PROFESSIONAL’S KNOWLEDGE RELATED WITH UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD. Revista Chilena De Enfermería, 1(1), 2–14. https://doi.org/10.5354/2452-5839.2019.55434

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)

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Research articles

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