Abstract

ROLIM, Karla Maria Carneiro et al. Comic books: technology in health for the humanization of care delivery to hospitalized children. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2017, vol.serIV, n.14, pp.69-78. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV17028.

Background: The use of a comic book (CB) on a painful and stressful procedure in pediatrics may contribute to a more humanistic practice, leading to a better understanding of children's subjective needs and improved care quality. Objective: To describe the experience of the elaboration and use of a comic book (CB) about the instructional therapeutic toy (ITT) on venipuncture, following the assumptions of the humanistic nursing theory. Methodology: Experience report with a qualitative, educational, and humanistic approach on the elaboration of the CB on venipuncture based on Paterson and Zderad's humanistic theory at a pediatric unit in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Results: Self-explanatory, instructive, disseminating, humanizing, and original texts and illustrations were elaborated based on typographic drawings of the stages of the venipuncture procedure, as ITT, and using the vocabulary of surveyed nursing professionals. Conclusion: The use of CB as a health technology is believed to improve nursing care and practice, as well as for raising professionals' awareness to the adoption of a humanized practice. A limitation of this study was the difficulty in generalizing results.

Keywords : pediatrics; nursing care; hospitalization; health education.

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