Health education in the postpartum period: proposal for implementation of the nursing discharge plan
International Journal of Development Research
Health education in the postpartum period: proposal for implementation of the nursing discharge plan
Received 05th July, 2019; Received in revised form 17th August, 2019; Accepted 03rd September, 2019; Published online 16th October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Márcia Teles de Oliveira Gouveia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of the study was to establish a nursing discharge plan with guidelines for postpartum women with post-discharge care for their health and that of the baby. It is an intervention project carried out in four stages, with maternity nurses, in the period of October, 2015. The first stage was mobilization, the second was the holding of conversation, the third step was the implementation of the discharge to all postpartum women who were discharged for fifteen days and the fourth assessment. After collection of the medical records in which the second copy of the discharge form was attached, corrections were made and the final model was submitted to management for appreciation and possible implementation in the service. The present study is feasible to be implemented in the institution in question and can be replicated in the other maternity hospitals of the Network. This innovation can contribute to managers and health professionals by providing subsidies for improvements in the discharge process, and for qualified and humanized nursing care.
