PERIÓDICOS DE ENFERMERÍA Y ADMINISTRACIÓN DE MEDICAMENTOS: IDENTIFICACIÓN Y CATEGORIZACIÓN DE LAS PUBLICACIONES DE 1987 A 2008

Este estudio objetivó identificar y categorizar los artículos de periódicos nacionales de enfermería que abordan temas referentes a la administración de medicamentos en el período de 1987 a 2008. A partir de la búsqueda realizada en las principales bases de datos de la salud, se utilizó la revisión de literatura acerca de la temática en seis periódicos nacionales, categorizando los artículos en lo referente a: asistencia; enseñanza; investigación; técnica y errores de medicación; comunicación; y, medicamentos específicos. Fueron identificados 108 artículos, destacándose la Revista Latino–Americana de Enfermería y la Revista Brasileña de Enfermería y el autor Casiani y la categoría medicamentos específicos, como aquellos responsables por la cantidad más expresiva de artículos publicados. Es necesario sumar esfuerzos para realizar una producción más expresiva de artículos relacionados a la administración de medicamentos.


INTRODUCTION
Medication administration is one of the activities with the highest burden of responsibility for the nursing team.Hence, scientific production in this area is extremely important, as it maximizes the use of different evidence-based principles, permitting the existence of a safe medication process.
The number and complexity of medication administration techniques is increasing, entailing increasing demands by the job market.It is a consensus among researchers and professionals involved in this practice that knowledge plays an important role nowadays (1) .
Thus, the use of work methods with solid theoretical foundations is considered fundamental, permitting nursing professionals' intellectual and practical growth, with a view to evidence-based and high-quality care delivery.This evidences the importance of research on themes related to medication administration.
Hence, this study is justified by the fact that identifying and categorizing articles on themes related to medication administration makes it possible to understand the current situation of scientific production on this theme, making it easier to locate the produced articles and appointing the need for scientific production on important themes on which little research has been done, thus benefitting nursing knowledge.Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, with five publications.
Among the authors, Cassiani stood out with four publications.She was the main author in two of these, the single author in one and a co-author in yet another article.
The largest number of articles, i.e. four, was published in 2007, followed by 2003 with three publications and 1987, 1993, 1994, 1998 and 2005   with two publications each year.Next,    In this respect, like in Table 1, that author was responsible for seven publications, and also stood out in medication administration research.Table 4 shows articles about technique and medication errors.Americana stand out as the main knowledge producers on medication errors and 2006 as the year with the highest number of publications, i.e. four articles.
As to authorship, Cassiani strongly stands out with a production of nine articles, one as the single author and eight as a co-author.The second most frequent author is Miasso with four publications, three as the main author and one as a co-author.Bohomol, Oliveira, Pedreira and Ramos published two articles each.Table 5 shows articles on communication and specific drugs.The specific drugs category includes 23 articles about drugs with uncommon characteristics.
All journals under analysis published on the theme.
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem stood out with nine articles.

DISCUSSION
After reading the full versions and categorizing the articles, as described in the methods section, a literature search was performed to find research to support the discussion of results.
As to the authors, Cassiani stood out with five publications, one as the first author and four as a co-author, followed by Mendes with three publications, one as the first author and two as a co-author.Next are Nogueira, Zanetti and Zem-Mascarenhas with two publications each.Next, Ta b l e 3 s h o w s p u b l i c a t i o n s i n t h e r e s e a r c h category.

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Brazilian edition) stood out by the number of publications about technique, with five and four articles, respectively.Zanetti and Grossi were the authors responsible for the largest number of articles about technique.Only two articles were published in the 1990's, and the highest number of publications was found in 2001.In the medication errors category, Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem and Revista Latino- Only one article was published in the 1990's, with a knowledge gap between 1990 and 1992 and between 1994 and 1999.The year 2007 stood out with the largest number of publications, totaling eight articles.As to authorship, Bechelli and Secoli stood out with two publications each.

Table 1 -
Distribution of articles in the care category.Belo Horizonte, MG, 2008

Table 1
reveals nine publications in Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, the journals that published most articles on care.The second journal is Revista

Table 2
presents publications in the teaching category.

Table 2 -
Distribution of articles in the teaching category.Belo Horizonte, MG, 2008 It is observed in Table 2 that six of the ten articles published on this theme came from Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem.A publication gap was observed between 2005 and 2008.

Table 3 -
Distribution of articles in the research category.Belo Horizonte, MG, 2008

Table 3 ,
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem stands out with eight publications and Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP with five.

Table 4 -
Distribution of articles in the medication technique and errors category.Belo Horizonte, MG, 2008

Table 5 -
Distribution of articles in the communication and specific drugs category.Belo Horizonte, MG, 2008