Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: Objective: to identify the contributions of nurses in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding. Methods: integrative review of the literature, in the databases Scientific Electronic Library Online, Database of Nursing, PubMed Central, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Web of Science. Results: nine selected articles from 2,075 retrieved. Main contributions of categorized nurses: Popular health education and home visits as care technologies in Nursing; Permanent education and the interface in exclusive breastfeeding; and Counseling as a supportive strategy. Conclusion: nurses, as members of multi professional teams, play a relevant role in exclusive breastfeeding, contributing to actions that transcend the biological and technical dimension, contemplating the singularity and the lived context of the woman/nursing woman, with promotion of health education activities during the puerperal pregnancy cycle.
Source: Rev Rene
Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $152
OpenAlex ID: W2905908334