Competências na coleta do exame preventivo do câncer do colo uterino de graduandos do curso de enfermagem

Abstract

As a result of the screening of the precursor lesions of uterine cancer being the responsibility of the nurse in Primary Care, it is essential to deepen and appropriate the correct examination technique that detects the injury early. Therefore, when nursing students graduate, they should be able to perform the oncotic colpocytology exam. The oncotic colpocytology exam is useful in screening for cervical cancer lesions. Exam collection requires manual skill through practice and mastery of the correct technique. Therefore, the importance of the nursing student having a supervised internship in Primary Health Care to have the opportunity to acquire learning and minimal skills to perform the exam. The general objective of the present study was to identify the level of competence in the collection of the preventive exam of cervical cancer among Nursing students taking the supervised internship. Method: The study presented a quantitative approach and performed in the year 2019. 80 (eighty) students from the 9th semester of the Nursing Course at the University of the Amazon participated during three months of supervised internship in Primary Health Care. Twenty-one competencies in the collection of oncotic colpocytology exam. From the application of a checklist during the supervised internship, each student was evaluated five times. Results: The evolution of the minimum competencies of the nursing student during the five collections of the oncotic cytology exam was notorious. From the third collection, it was observed that 41.3% of students with unsatisfactory performance, there was a reduction to 5% in the fourth collection. In the fifth collection of the exam, 92.5% of students reach a satisfactory exam technique. Therefore, it suggested implementing the checklist during the collection of the oncotic cytology exam in the supervised internship, so that each student has the opportunity to make at least five collections.