Articles - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objective:

To understand the meanings attributed to patient safety by nursing students.

Methods:

Descriptive study of qualitative approach, based on the theoretical-methodological proposal of Symbolic Interactionism, conducted with 12 students completing the nursing course of a public higher education institution in a city in the state of Amazonas. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview. For interpretation of the results, it was used thematic analysis.

Results:

The meanings attributed by the students to patient safety are: the reduction of harm, the guarantee of the integrity of the patient, family members, and health professionals, the promotion of health through the knowledge acquired in the academy, the attitude of the professional and the practice. Final considerations: The meanings originated are in line with the literature produced; however, the students have knowledge gaps that enable patient safety development in their academic training and as nurses.

ABSTRACT

Objective:

To verify the association between Social Determinants of Health and birth control methods used by women of childbearing age.

Methods:

Documentary and retrospective study, performed at a Brazilian Natural Birth Center with evaluation of the medical records of patients seen between 2003 and 2011 (n=2410). Data were collected on identification and general history, gynecological, sexual and obstetric.

Results:

Hormone birth control methods were the most used among participants (25.0%); followed by barrier methods (21.5%) and surgical methods (19.3%). Statistical associations were observed regarding age, menarche, onset of sexual activity, pregnancy, miscarriage, smoking, hypertension, marital status, gynecological care and schooling with the choice of methods.

Conclusion:

The results confirm the importance of studies involving Social Determinants of Health, since they interfere in the way women choose birth control methods and the risks that this choice may pose to their health.

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to analyze the nurse’s educational practice in Family Health Strategy.

Methods:

descriptive study with a qualitative approach, whose data production used the World Café group technique, in two meetings, with 26 nurses of a health district of Manaus-AM. The technique used was Categorial-Thematic Content Analysis.

Results:

the study generated two units of analysis: Political and Organizational Configuration of Educational Work at ESF and Operational Configuration of Educational Work at ESF, revealing the necessary (re)configurations in co-management, in the centrality of the subject for the planning of educational work, and in (re)pactuation between the management of services and training institutions to overcome contradictions in the implementation of National Policies on Permanent Education and Basic Health Care.

Conclusions:

the configuration of nurses’ educational practice at ESF works toward interactions, organized to respond to health policies, incorporating creativity in doing, but facing numerous obstacles.