Tecnologia em Enfemagem: Protótipo de software a partir da construção de telas de interface

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: At the healthcare settings, the intravenous therapy (IV) is one of the most usual clinical interventions e with most significance. However, with the aim of the excellence of the assistance rendered to the patient, it is vital the organization and standardization of the technique to the implementation of the venipuncture, since the complications are still recurrent within the healthcare services. Furthermore, the phlebitis is one of the most frequent adversities in the intravenous therapy, with a rate between 7% and 68.9% of affected patients, surpassing the standard accepted by the Intravenous Nurse Society (INS) which have indexes below 5%.OBJECTIVES: To develop a software application prototype, from the construction of interface screens of the device, to evaluation, management and professional conduct of Nursing upon the patient with suspicion or diagnosis of phlebitis. METHODOLOGY: Comes about a methodological study of applied type, since "apply oneself with the manners of the making science." Moreover, enclose a study of technological production that utilised the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method for the prototype development.RESULTS: The construction of nine interfaces through the program Ilustrator CC was given from the methods SDLC as per the analysis, project and development stages. The creation of the application prototype as support toll to the Nursing professional performance with bigger organization, thus, favoring the management of patients which have some sort of intraveous devices and, thereby, enable bigger agility and versatility in the process of evaluation and, specially in the precocious detection of phlebitis. The choosen name for the application was "FindFlebite", find English verb that corresponds to the verb "achar" in Portuguese which makes refecence to the aim of the software of precocious detection of the signs and symptoms of phlebitis. CONCLUSION: The FindFlebite was idealized and developed from the necessity of potentate the process of Nursing with the use of health technologies, in order to intensify the evaluation, management and demeanour of the Nursing professional upon the suspicion or diagnosis of phlebitis. As measure that corroborate in the security culture of the patient, awaking in the professional the need of measure of prevention/monitoring of the invasive devices used in the clinical practice.