Condições de conforto do paciente internado em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva neonatal

Abstract

Objective: to identify the lighting conditions, noise and types of professional touch to babies at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Methods: it was carried out in a 30-bed unit of a university hospital between June and December of 2005. Data were collected by means of non-participant observation through notes in each one of the five unit rooms adding up to 57 hours of observation, which were transcribed, tabulated and analyzed. This study has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty Evangélica of Paraná (2895/05). Results: loud talk was pointed out in the noise category. Regarding lighting, incubators were covered with a dark field. As for the kinds of touch, instrumental-affective one stood out. Conclusion: from the collected data, it is possible to enhance babies’ comfort conditions by means of educational actions with professionals, specially driven to the awareness that humanized care is a behavior which needs to be incorporated to daily actions. Descriptors: nursing; therapeutic touch; intensive care units, neonatal.