title: Technological innovation for peripheral venipuncture: ultrasound training.
abstract: to evaluate the training of nurses in the use of ultrasound in peripheral venipuncture.
  descriptive research of quantitative approach performed with nurses as part of an analytical cross-sectional study in two patient care centers: an intensive care unit and an adult emergency center.
  the results showed contributions of training for professional skill and visibility of nurses, requiring, however, more time for complete assimilation of this technological innovation as a safer clinical practice.
  as the use of this technology represents an innovation aimed to facilitate difficult venipuncture and to provide subsidies to the most appropriate clinical decision-making, it is urgent to qualify nurses for its use.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Curitiba-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Andrey Maciel de
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Curitiba-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mitzy Tannia Reichembach
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Danski
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Paraná, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem. Curitiba-PR, Brasil.
authors.forename: Edivane
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pedrolo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D018962:Phlebotomy; D015397:Program Evaluation; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional