Indicadores de lesão por pressão em ambiente intra-hospitalar

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Health indicators are monitoring and evaluation tools that make information accessible, so that it can be transmitted to all levels of society, aiming to carry out effective health actions to serve all users. Understanding how the indicators work leads to questions about how high the rates of patients who develop pressure injury (LPP) are during the hospital stay and how they could be reduced. In addition, the indicators for LPP are negative, which leads to poor quality of care in health services. OBJECTIVE: To understand the role of nursing in the light of pressure injury indicators; Analyze pressure injury indicators in the in-hospital environment. METHOD: This is a literature review whose main role is to analyze, synthesize and interpret a particular investigation. RESULTS: To obtain the results of this study, a search was carried out in the PUBMED, SCIELO and VHL databases between August 22nd and 29th, 2021. Based on this strategy, a total of 23 articles were selected to compose this research. CONCLUSION: Nursing actions that can be put into practice to reduce and prevent PPL in the intra-hospital environment. The challenges of the nursing team are numerous and daily, understanding the profile of each patient, applying nursing care, understanding pathologies and avoiding complications is a challenge. The nurse as the leader of the care team must always think about the application of training, which, in addition to being additional knowledge for everyone, is a facilitator for the application of reliable indicators in the hospital environment.