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01-01-2016
Pressure ulcer healing with Plenusdermax® Calendula officinalis L. extract
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):250-257
Abstract
Pressure ulcer healing with Plenusdermax® Calendula officinalis L. extract
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):250-257
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690207i
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Objective:
to evaluate the therapeutic benefits of the bioactive extracts of Plenusdermax®Calendula officinalis for pressure ulcer healing.
Method:
an observational cohort study, including 41 patients with a diagnosis of pressure ulcer that was stable in size for more than three months. Patients were evaluated every two weeks, over 30 weeks, for: reduction of the wound area, infection control, types of tissue and exudate, and ulcer microbiology.
Results:
the proportions of patients who were completely healed after 15 and 30 weeks of treatment were 63% and 88%, respectively, and the mean healing time was 12.5±7.8 weeks. No adverse events were observed during treatment.
Conclusion:
the results of the study indicate that bioactive C. officinalis Plenusdermax® is a safe treatment that promotes healing of pressure ulcers.
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01-01-2016
Quality of life assessment for health promotion groups
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):242-249
Abstract
Quality of life assessment for health promotion groups
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):242-249
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690206i
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Objective:
to analyze the use of quality of life assessment (QOL) as a strategy to evaluate the work with health promotion groups in the community.
Method:
cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study. Participants of two elderly groups (n=46) were individually interviewed to fill the sociodemographic instruments, WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD.
Results:
the participants were women with up to 79 years, who did not live with a partner, with up to four years of study, retired, with individual income of up to a minimum salary. The mean scores on the WHOQOL-BREF were higher on “Social Relations” and lower in the “Environment”. For the WHOQOL-OLD, the highest scores were achieved in facets “Social Participation” (G1) and “Past, Present and Future Activities” (G2), while “Death and Dying” facet obtained lower scores in both groups.
Conclusion:
the assessment of QOL appears to be useful in helping to identify the coordination aspects of life of elderly people that need to be better developed in groups.
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01-01-2016
Transcultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian version of Treatment Spirituality/Religiosity Scale
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):235-241
Abstract
Transcultural adaptation and validation of the Brazilian version of Treatment Spirituality/Religiosity Scale
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):235-241
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690205i
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Objective:
to perform the translation and transcultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese, and analyze the psychometric properties of the instrument Treatment Spirituality/Religiosity Scale (TSRS).
Method:
the sample consisted of 188 nursing students of technical and higher education. The reliability analysis by test-retest was performed one month after the first application of the instrument. To measure the construct validation, a factorial analysis was carried out.
Results:
the Brazilian version of the TSRS consisted of 10 items, with two factors. The reliability by test-retest showed a Kappa coefficient ranging from 0.22 to 0.47, and a global internal consistency Cronbach’s alpha of 0.85.
Conclusion:
the Brazilian version of the TSRS showed satisfactory values of validity and internal consistency, being suitable for use in the national context.
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01-01-2016
Epidemiological characteristics and causes of deaths in hospitalized patients under intensive care
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):229-234
Abstract
Epidemiological characteristics and causes of deaths in hospitalized patients under intensive care
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):229-234
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690204i
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Objective:
to describe the epidemiological and sociodemographic characteristics of patients hospitalized in an ICU.
Method:
an epidemiological, descriptive and retrospective study. Population: 695 patients admitted from January to December 2011. The data collected were statistically analyzed with both absolute and relative frequency distribution.
Results:
61.6% of the patients are male, aged 40 to 69 years, and most of them came from the surgery rooms. The most frequent reason for admission was diseases of the circulatory system (23.3%). At discharge from the ICU, 72.4% of the patients were sent to other units of the same institution, 31.1% to the intermediate care unit, and 20.4% died, of which 24.6% from diseases of the circulatory system. The afternoon shift had 45.8% of the admissions and 53.3% of the discharges.
Conclusion:
the description of the sociodemographic and epidemiological features guides the planning of nursing actions, providing a better quality service.
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01-01-2016
Hospital discharge of premature newborns: the father’s experience
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):221-228
Abstract
Hospital discharge of premature newborns: the father’s experience
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):221-228
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690203i
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Objective:
To describe the father’s experience with his premature child discharge of the Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit and to point out interventions to promote this experience.
Method:
Qualitative research with eight fathers, adopting the Symbolic Interactionism as theoretical reference and thematic narrative research as methodological frame.
Results:
The analysis of data has allowed us to describe the experience of the father from three thematic units: “fatherhood boundaries”, “high responsibility for the child” and “social network and support”.
Conclusion:
The father feels insecure with the idea of taking care of his child at home because of the lack of professional support and the initial contact with the child in the Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit.
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01-01-2016
Nurses from the Mobile Emergency Service: profile and developed activities
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):213-220
Abstract
Nurses from the Mobile Emergency Service: profile and developed activities
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):213-220
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690202i
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Objective:
to characterize the profile and identify the activities developed by nurses from the Mobile Emergency Care Service of a state of southern Brazil.
Method:
an exploratory, descriptive study. Data were collected through a questionnaire with 63 nurses.
Results:
the profile showed a workforce predominantly female, young and having specialized training. The activities were organized in the dimensions of caring, managing and educating, verifying the predominance of the first one. Care actions involved multiple procedures, but the use of the Systematization of Nursing Care (SNC) was not mentioned in the development of care activities. Then, the managerial dimension with a predominance of bureaucratic activities was emphasized. Educational activities were less prominent.
Conclusion:
care actions are the focus of the activities of nurses, predominantly the prescribed institutional care without the use of instruments such as SNC that could contribute to the greater visibility of their professional work.
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01-01-2016
Desafios e imperativos de liderança na cooperação com a Organização Mundial da Saúde
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):207-208
Abstract
Desafios e imperativos de liderança na cooperação com a Organização Mundial da Saúde
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):207-208
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690201i
Views0Quando uma instituição promove inovações estratégicas, é colocado em curso o rompimento com a tradição, provocando mudanças e, por consequência, alterando as expectativas e as perspectivas tanto dos seus clientes internos, quanto dos seus clientes externos.Os motores das inovações adotadas são acionados por uma visão ampliada dos fins da organização, alargando suas fronteiras em termos […]See more -
01-01-2016
Challenges and leadership imperatives in cooperation with the World Health Organization
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):207-208
Abstract
Challenges and leadership imperatives in cooperation with the World Health Organization
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(2):207-208
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690201i
Views0When an institution promotes strategic innovations, it starts the rupture with tradition, causing changes and, consequently, altering the expectations and prospects of both their internal clients, as their external clients.The engines of the adopted innovations are driven by a broader view of the organization’s purposes, expanding its borders in terms of breadth and depth, which […]See more
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE08-08-2022
Social and territorial inequalities in the mortality of children and adolescents due to COVID-19 in Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75(6):e20210482
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLESocial and territorial inequalities in the mortality of children and adolescents due to COVID-19 in Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2022;75(6):e20210482
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2021-0482
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Objective:
To analyze the mortality rate of COVID-19 among children and adolescents aged 0 to 14 years.
Methods:
Ecological and exploratory study of children’s mortality rate by COVID-19 in Brazil, from February to October 2020. The study used the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome database to collect the data and made the analysis using descriptive spatial statistics by age and race/color classification.
Result:
The mortality rate due to COVID-19 represented 1.34 deaths per one hundred thousand in the total group evaluated. The age group with the highest frequency and mortality rate was 1 to 4 years of age. There is a higher frequency of deaths in the brown and Indigenous population.
Conclusion:
The distribution of deaths due to COVID-19 is unequal in the national territory, and there is a wide variation in the mortality rate by age and race/color groups.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE12-08-2023
Construction and validity of educational technology about the human papillomavirus vaccine for adolescents
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2023;76:e20230048
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEConstruction and validity of educational technology about the human papillomavirus vaccine for adolescents
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2023;76:e20230048
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2023-0048
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Objectives:
to construct and validate an educational technology in comic book format about the human papillomavirus vaccine aimed at adolescents.
Methods:
a methodological study, with a quantitative approach, through the agreement method. It was carried out in two phases: educational technology construction and content validity. Participants are expert judges in the health field. Data collection took place in a virtual environment, through a questionnaire. Data analysis was performed by calculating the Content Validity Index. A Content Validity Index of at least 80% was accepted.
Results:
the comic book’s overall Content Validity Index was 82%, reaching the minimum limit established to be validated.
Conclusions:
comics are fundamental in the teaching-learning process, aiming to catch adolescents’ attention. Therefore, it is characterized as a valid tool to inform, in a playful manner, about the human papillomavirus vaccine.
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ERRATUM02-26-2024
ERRATUM
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77(1):e20160061
Abstract
ERRATUMERRATUM
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77(1):e20160061
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.20247701e03
Views2In the article “Nurses in the labor market: professional insertion, competencies and skills”, with DOI number: , published in Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2017;70(6):1220-6, on page 1225:Include before REFERENCES:[…]See more -
ORIGINAL ARTICLE01-10-2024
Nursing care management strategies to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77:e20230254
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLENursing care management strategies to address the COVID-19 pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77:e20230254
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-20230254
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Objective:
To characterize nursing care management strategies for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method:
A descriptive, qualitative study conducted with 22 nurse professionals at a University Hospital in Southern Brazil. Data collection through interviews in June and August 2021, analyzed according to Bardin’s Content Analysis and the theoretical framework of complex thinking.
Results:
The identified strategies were organized into four categories: Reorganization of health services; People management and emergency admission; Multiprofessional articulation; and Bedside nursing care.
Final Considerations:
Professional performance revealed a complex interplay between leadership and care management practices, even in the face of working condition restrictions, and were understood as crucial in the pandemic scenario.
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REVIEW01-10-2024
Prevalence and exposure variables of latent infection by mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthcare workers
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77:e20240052
Abstract
REVIEWPrevalence and exposure variables of latent infection by mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthcare workers
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2024;77:e20240052
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2024-0052
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Objectives:
To identify in the scientific literature the prevalence, diagnostic methods, and exposure variables of latent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthcare workers.
Methods:
An integrative review of the scientific literature based on the following review question: What are the available scientific evidence in the literature that address the prevalence of latent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthcare workers and its association with possible risk factors among these workers?
Results:
Being a physician or nurse, being older, and being male were generally associated with higher prevalences. The study also showed that interferon-gamma release assays were more commonly used as a diagnostic method compared to skin tests.
Conclusions:
More studies are needed regarding the epidemiology of latent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the context of healthcare workers, aiming for higher impact actions that contribute to the reduction of tuberculosis worldwide.
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01-01-2016
Nursing care in Specialized HIV/Aids Outpatient Services
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(3):515-521
Abstract
Nursing care in Specialized HIV/Aids Outpatient Services
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2016;69(3):515-521
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167.2016690314i
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Objective:
to analyze the discourses about the care provided by nurses operating in Specialized HIV/Aids Outpatient Services in four public institutions of the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Method:
descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, which used as a method the discourse analysis.
Results:
when titling the “care as negative”, such title came from the analogy proposed by Freud (1912) with the photographic negative, represented by what that care can configure from the unconscious movement, since nurses did not perceive themselves in the care actions developed by supporting the work of other occupational categories, contributing to maintain the ideology of biomedicine.
Conclusion:
it is necessary to justify and theorize a nursing clinical practice from epistemological issues of the profession, in such a way that nurses can understand their relevance within the care provided.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE04-16-2021
Practices used by a home care team: implications for caregivers
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2021;74(2):e20190794
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEPractices used by a home care team: implications for caregivers
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2021;74(2):e20190794
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0794
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Objectives:
to analyze the practices of a home care team and their implications for caregivers’ performance.
Methods:
qualitative study with data obtained from observation of 21 users, 30 caregivers and 6 professionals from the home health care service in a municipality in Minas Gerais, from February to June 2018. The material was analyzed from the perspective of discourse analysis according to Michel Foucault.
Results:
team interference upon caregivers is exercised by disciplinary practices and prescriptive, authoritative and surveilling behaviors. The team’s knowledge-power relationship determines caregivers’ acceptance through convincing or through difficulty of understanding assigned orientations. Educational practices would enable caregivers to be constituted as active, participative, empowered and reflective subjects.
Final Considerations:
team practices interfere with caregivers’ ways of acting and being and they have implications in objectification and subjectification processes.
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08-16-2021
Pregnant women’s contribution in the construction and evaluation of an educational technology: the “Comics for Pregnant Women”
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2021;74:e20201243
Abstract
Pregnant women’s contribution in the construction and evaluation of an educational technology: the “Comics for Pregnant Women”
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2021;74:e20201243
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-1243
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Objectives:
to describe the contribution of pregnant women to the construction and evaluation of educational technology.
Methods:
a participatory study developed in three stages, which occurred between March 2018 and June 2019 for identifying the content, construction, and evaluation of the comic. Non-directive interviews were conducted in educational groups with 34 pregnant women. After the comic was built by a team, including a designer, an instrument was applied to 41 pregnant women to evaluate the items Objectives, Organization, Writing style, Appearance, and Motivation.
Results:
the comic contains 40 pages of contents, illustrations, and quizzes (word search, cross-puzzle, seven mistakes, etc). The pregnant women evaluated it as easy to understand, self-explanatory, aesthetically attractive, and capable of motivating good care practices during pregnancy, obtaining a minimum agreement of 92.1%.
Final Considerations:
the innovation of the educational technology consisted of incorporating the voices of pregnant women in prenatal care, with the potential to stimulate reflections and the learning process of this target audience.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE05-15-2020
Stress and quality of sleep in undergraduate nursing students
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20180227
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEStress and quality of sleep in undergraduate nursing students
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20180227
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0227
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Objective:
to analyze the level of stress and sleep quality in nursing students according to terms of the nursing program.
Method:
descriptive and cross-sectional research developed in a higher education institution in Northeastern Brazil on 167 students. We used data collection, sociodemographic information, and a scale for assessing stress and sleep quality in nursing students.
Results:
we identified a statistically significant difference between domains of the stress scale and the terms of the undergraduate program, and between the quality of sleep and such terms such as as in the fourth and sixth semesters.
Conclusion:
different stress scores show that the semester which concerns students the most is the fifth. Quality of sleep was deemed good for the first, third, fifth, seventh, and eighth semesters; and poor for the fourth and sixth terms.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE09-21-2020
Clinical judgment and diagnostic reasoning of nursing students in clinical simulation
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(6):e20180878
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEClinical judgment and diagnostic reasoning of nursing students in clinical simulation
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(6):e20180878
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0878
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Objectives:
to determine the degree of association between clinical judgment and diagnostic reasoning of nursing students in clinical simulation.
Methods:
this is a correlational research design using a quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 41 nursing students who assisted a patient with vaso-occlusive crisis in a high-fidelity clinical simulation setting. The instruments used included the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric – Brazilian Version and the Diagnostic Thinking Inventory.
Results:
clinical judgment was associated with diagnostic reasoning (r=0.313; p=0.046), as well as the “noticing” aspect of clinical judgment with diagnostic reasoning (r=0.312; p=0.047).
Conclusions:
the results show that skills to interpret patient data are associated with diagnostic reasoning skills. Teaching clinical judgment skills is necessary to develop the diagnostic reasoning of nursing students.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE12-05-2019
Quality of life of institutionalized aged with and without symptoms of depression
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72:127-133
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLEQuality of life of institutionalized aged with and without symptoms of depression
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72:127-133
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0316
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Objective:
compare the quality of life (QOL) of aged residents in homes for aged people with or without symptoms of depression, and identify social, physical activity; leisure; health and basic activities of daily living (ADL) variables that correlate with QOL scores.
Method:
cross-sectional study conducted with 101 institutionalized aged. Multiple linear regression was used for data analysis.
Results:
symptoms of depression changed negatively the QOL in the domains: autonomy; present, past and future activities; social participation; intimacy and total score. Dependent aged presented lower QOL for the performance of ADL in the domains: autonomy; social participation and total score; dancing without limitation of movement; liking the residential and not presenting symptoms of depression were the variables that positively influenced the QOL of the aged.
Conclusion:
social and psychological support, good living conditions and stimulating assistance can improve the QOL of institutionalized elderlies.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE07-08-2020
Spirituality and religiousity in the experience of suffering, guilt, and death of the elderly with cancer
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20190034
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ORIGINAL ARTICLESpirituality and religiousity in the experience of suffering, guilt, and death of the elderly with cancer
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20190034
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0034
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Objective:
to understand spirituality and religiosity in the experience of suffering, guilt, and death of the elderly with cancer.
Method:
qualitative research based on Viktor Frankl’s Existential Analysis. Twenty phenomenological interviews were conducted with people over 60 years old undergoing chemotherapy treatment at an oncology unit of a hospital in the city of Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil, between August and October 2018.
Results:
the following categories emerged: Experiences spirituality and religiosity in the face of the tragic triad and existential emptiness; Uses spirituality/religiosity as resilience strategies. After apprehension of ontic aspects, it was possible the ontological understanding of spirituality and religiosity in the face of suffering, guilt, and death experienced in the elderly with cancer’s daily life.
Final considerations:
spirituality and religiosity were understood as coping strategies used in the unstable experience of the elderly with cancer, providing comfort and resilience.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE02-10-2020
Mental health profile of the elderly community: a cross-sectional study
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(1):e20180191
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ORIGINAL ARTICLEMental health profile of the elderly community: a cross-sectional study
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(1):e20180191
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0191
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Objective:
to describe the mental health profile of the elderly registered in a Family Health Unit in the city of Recife, Pernambuco State.
Method:
it was a descriptive quantitative study, conducted with 159 elderly through the scales Geriatric Depression, Resilience, Social Support, Life Satisfaction, and Positive and Negative Affects, Mini-Mental State Examination, Stressful Events Inventory and Brazil Old Age Shedule.
Results:
females, young and literate elderly predominated. Most were satisfied with life, 52.2% without depressive symptoms, 68.6% without cognitive impairment, 67.9% high resilience and 95.8% high social support, but 62% of elderly with depressive symptoms showed cognitive deficit. Negative correlation was identified between depression and cognitive impairment, resilience, social support and life satisfaction.
Conclusion:
assessment of these indicators identifies triggers of psychological distress, assisting the nursing staff in the development of preventive and care actions.
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EXPERIENCE REPORT10-26-2020
Collaborative practices from health care teams to face the covid-19 pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20200470
Abstract
EXPERIENCE REPORTCollaborative practices from health care teams to face the covid-19 pandemic
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20200470
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0470
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Objective:
To report the experience of collaborative practices facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods:
This is a report about the experience of collaborative practices conducted by health care teams in emergency service in the Emergency Care Units facing of COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Fortaleza, State of Ceará, in the first semester of 2020.
Results:
Collaborative actions, cooperation and effective communication among nursing and medical team contribute to the management of mild and complex cases of COVID-19, as well as qualify them in suitable and necessary care and confrontation measures.
Final considerations:
The report shows the need for collaborative practices to minimize negative effects on the population in the face of the new coronavirus pandemic.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE11-25-2020
Family experiences in discovering Autism Spectrum Disorder: implications for family nursing
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20190489
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ORIGINAL ARTICLEFamily experiences in discovering Autism Spectrum Disorder: implications for family nursing
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73:e20190489
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0489
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Objectives:
to describe the family’s experience in the process of discovering the diagnosis and initiation of treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Methods:
this qualitative and descriptive study interviewed nine relatives of eight children on autism spectrum. They were inserted in health services, public education, and Association of Parents and Friends of The Exceptional of cities in the countryside of the Center-West. Data were collected through open interviews from July to September 2017. Data was submitted to thematic analysis.
Results:
at the beginning, the family was difficult to perceive the first atypical signs presented by the children. Families experience situations of vulnerability, since support networks are insufficient. The school played a significant role in recognizing unexpected behaviors.
Final Considerations:
support, offered by nurses, health professionals, school and social support devices, is important to family and children in this trajectory.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE10-21-2019
Nurses defending the autonomy of the elderly at the end of life
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(6):1639-1645
Abstract
ORIGINAL ARTICLENurses defending the autonomy of the elderly at the end of life
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(6):1639-1645
DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0768
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Objective:
to understand how nurses deal with the elderly’s autonomy at the end of life.
Method:
qualitative, exploratory study, guided by the Grounded Theory. Ten nurses, eight doctors and 15 nursing technicians were interviewed between November 2016 and May 2017 at a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
Results:
nurses deal with the elderly’s autonomy in compliance with the code of ethics and exercise leadership in actions and interactions to defend this right, evaluating, guiding and listening to the preferences of the elderly; interacting with the family; and sharing information with the health team.
Final considerations:
the elderly’s autonomy must be ensured in care planning, based on patient-centered communication and developed in the interaction among agents involved in care. The discussion on “Living Wills” Health Care Directives and principles of palliative care must be encouraged.
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