Consulta de enfermería a portadores de diabetes mellitus e hipertensión arterial: la integración de la educación y la práctica de cuidados de la salud / Consultation of nursing of individuals with diabetes mellitus and arterial high blood pressure: integrating education and health care practice

Este estudio tiene como objetivo describir la experiencia de docentes del Curso de Graduación de la Escuela de Enfermería Anna Nery/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, en la supervisión de alumnas en las consultas de enfermería a los pacientes portadores de diabetes mellitus e hipertensión arterial en una unidad básica de salud del municipio de Río de Janeiro. En este trabajo se enfatiza, principalmente, la utilización de un instrumento de evaluación del paciente durante la consulta, buscando optimización y la integración de la educación a la asistencia prestada. Se cree que la sistematización de la consulta de enfermería a los pacientes portadores de diabetes Mellitus e hipertensión arterial posibilita la identificación precoz de complicaciones y el establecimiento de medidas de prevención de los daños y de promoción de la salud de estos pacientes.

This study had how aim to report the experience of teachers of the Degree course in Nursing of the School of Nursing Anna Nery/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, in the pupils' supervision in the consultations of nursing the clients with diabetes mellitus and arterial high blood pressure in a health basic unity of the Rio de Janeiro. In this work, there is emphasized, principally, the use of an instrument of evaluation of the client during the consultation, aiming for the optimization and integration of the education and health care practice. It is believed that the systematization of the consultation of nursing to clients with diabetes mellitus and arterial high blood pressure, makes possible the precocious identification of complications and the establishment of measures of prevention of the injuries and of promotion of the health of these individuals.

Height and weight gains in a nutrition rehabilitation day-care service.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate nutritional recovery patterns in 106 undernourished children assisted by the Center of Nutritional Recovery and Education (CREN, in Portuguese) between January 1995 and December 1999. DESIGN: CREN assists undernourished children aged 0 to 72 months living in the southern regions of Sao Paulo, in an outpatient setting. Nutritional status was assessed by Z-scores of weight-for-age, height-for-age and weight-for-height. Nutritional recovery evaluation considered Z-score gains in weight-for-age and height-for-age, grouping into four categories (Z-score increment of 0.50 between groups). Children with birth weight less than 2500 g were classified as low birth weight (LBW), while those born at term and with LBW were classified as small for gestational age. SETTING: CREN (Center of Nutritional Recovery and Education in Portuguese), Sao Paulo, Brazil. SUBJECTS: One hundred and six children from CREN. RESULTS: Among the 106 evaluated children, ninety-eight (92.5 %) recovered their weight or height and seventy-two (67.9 %) recovered both. Nearly half of studied children presented a nutritional recovery (increase in Z-score) of more than 0.50 in height-for-age (46.2 %) and about 40 % in weight-for-age (38.7 %). Multivariate analysis showed that treatment duration and initial weight-for-age contributed to weight-for-age Z-score increment, explaining 25 % of the variation; and treatment duration, initial height-for-age and weight-for-age Z-score increment contributed to height-for-age Z-score increment, explaining 62 % of the variation. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that nutritional recovery among children who attended CREN was influenced primarily by the degree of nutritional deficit at admission. It has also been shown that biological variables are more important than socio-economic status in determining the rate of nutritional recovery.