ABSTRACT

The present article is a research cutting developed in the Master Degree Course of the Faculty of Nursing of State University of Rio de Janeiro. The dehydrated  papain is used after dilution in the treatment of wounds os several etiologies, for accelerate the healing process. Considering the hard dilution , one of the authoresses  started to use the papain with magnesium silicate, obtaining good results, but without fundaments in findings of research. By this reason developed this study with 20 clients, attended in ambulatory of the University Hospital Pedro Ernesto of the University of the Rio de Janeiro State, in the period of April of 2003 to January of 2004.  The study of quantitative nature, of the descriptive, exploratory type, had as objective to create and evaluate the care technology efficacy that join nurse-client interaction and the use of the papain associated with the magnesium silicate in the wounds healing maximization. The sample was accidental non probabilistic. The data were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics. The results showed the care technology efficacy that can conclude that the lesion diameter and deepness produces health tissue of granulation and alters the pH of the surface in the sense of acidification. With the number reduced of subjects of sample it do not permit the results generalization, it propone its continuity in other studies. 
Descriptors: Nursing care; dressings; wounds