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Children’s (in)visibility in social vulnerability and the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(Suppl 2):e20200302
06-29-2020
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REFLECTIONChildren’s (in)visibility in social vulnerability and the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(Suppl 2):e20200302
06-29-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0302
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Objective:
To examine the impact of the infection by the novel coronavirus on Brazilian children in situation of social vulnerability based on the Millennium Sustainable Development Goals.
Method:
Reflective study based on discursive formulation in three aspects: principles of the objectives and goals for the millennium sustainable development; impact of the pandemic on the health of children and their families living in social vulnerability; and the role of pediatric nursing in the care provided - limits and challenges.
Results:
In January 2020, the news of COVID 19 is released as a pandemic. In Brazil, children and families are still without access to basic rights, thereby increasing their risks of social vulnerability because of the quarantine. The nursing field has an important role in monitoring children and their families, offering guidance in search for solutions and preventing contamination.
Conclusion:
There are still challenges to be overcome by the children and their families in situations of vulnerability against COVID-19.
Keywords:ChildrenCoronavirus InfectionsPediatric NursingSustainable DevelopmentVulnerable PopulationSee more -
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Recommendations in covid-19 times: a view for home care
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(Suppl 2):e20200310
06-29-2020
Abstract
REFLECTIONRecommendations in covid-19 times: a view for home care
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(Suppl 2):e20200310
06-29-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0310
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Objective:
To suggest recommendations for the practice of Home Nursing in the context of COVID-19.
Method:
Reflective study, originated from readings associated with the theme, available in current guidelines from the Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health.
Results:
Recommendations were developed from current scientific evidence for prevention of infections, control of epidemics and pandemics in the Brazilian home scenario.
Final considerations:
the reflections achieved contribute to guiding actions for better assistance to the patient, family caregivers and the community in the perspective of safe home care with COVID-19, and it is characterized as an introductory discussion on the theme, encouraging new studies to be carried out from the unfolding of the current scenario.
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Thematic content analysis using ATLAS.ti software: Potentialities for researchs in health
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20190250
04-22-2020
Abstract
REFLECTIONThematic content analysis using ATLAS.ti software: Potentialities for researchs in health
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20190250
04-22-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0250
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Objective:
to describe the most important tools of ATLAS.ti Software and to associate them with the procedures of Thematic Content Analysis.
Method:
It is a theoretical reflection of the Content Analysis phases of Laurence Bardin, associating them with software tools Atlas.ti and showing its usefulness for data analysis in qualitative research.
Results:
historical contextualization and the available resources of Atlas.ti software with presentation of health research involving the phases of thematic content analysis.
Final considerations:
The Atlas.ti software assists in the accomplishment of the thematic content analysis being this promising association in health research.
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Nurse to adolescent health communication process: approach to Event History Calendar
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20180454
04-09-2020
Abstract
REFLECTIONNurse to adolescent health communication process: approach to Event History Calendar
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20180454
04-09-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0454
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Objectives:
comprehend the Event History Calendar components that are relevant for the nurse to adolescent communicative process, in the context of Primary Health Care.
Methods:
reflective study, based on the Event History Calendar approach, in the relational, communicative, and educational dimensions.
Results:
best practices for adolescent health promotion are vital and constitute a challenge to nurses. The Event History Calendar is a potential tool for research and care practices to comprehend the needs of adolescents, with reminder of key personal events, culturally and socially specific. The comprehension of retrospective data referring to activities, behaviors, experiences and transitions of life, in certain periods of time, enables dialogue and new understandings about the history of adolescents.
Final Considerations:
the Event History Calendar provides nursing professionals with an expansion of their practice in educational, relational, and communicative dimensions, as well as to instruct care planning and management.
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Permission for departing: spiritual nursing care in human finitude
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20180622
04-09-2020
Abstract
REFLECTIONPermission for departing: spiritual nursing care in human finitude
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20180622
04-09-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0622
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Objectives:
To reflect on teaching experience in the application of the spiritual nursing care called permission for departing.
Methods:
It is a methodological reflection and description of a subtle technology for spiritual nursing care called permission for departing.
Results:
the permission for departing is a spiritual care that allows for an intentional therapeutic relationship of trust and safety among the professional, patients, and the family, enabling the expression of feelings, beliefs, and religious or spiritual rites that help in death and dying situations.
Final Considerations:
a concept structured by words and attitudes reinforcing what is positive was coined, aiming at a consciousness state of peace and the promotion of dignity in the death and dying process, as well as for time for the patients, their families and the team to experience contemplation and parting.
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Environmental health: emancipatory care challenges and possibilities by the nurse
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20180478
04-03-2020
Abstract
REFLECTIONEnvironmental health: emancipatory care challenges and possibilities by the nurse
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(3):e20180478
04-03-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0478
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Objectives:
to discuss challenges and possibilities for the construction of Environmental Health emancipatory care practices by the nurse.
Methods:
reflective analysis based on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological aspects of nursing care, under the emancipatory and critical perspective.
Results:
contemporary environmental issues involve complex determinants of the health-disease process. This fact requires the accomplishment of educative actions that encourage the change of environmental attitudes related to health-risk situations. In this sense, there are significant demands for emancipatory practices of primary care in Environmental Health by nurses, which need to be systematized by health and education institutions.
Final considerations:
the nurse, as an educator and social actor, should offer emancipatory practices of risk management, empowerment, and shared social and environmental responsibility, with a view to recovering an ecological well-being and social transformation, to improve environmental quality and human life.
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Professional Autonomy as Centrality in Best Practices in Nursing
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(2):e20180373
03-09-2020
Abstract
REFLECTIONProfessional Autonomy as Centrality in Best Practices in Nursing
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2020;73(2):e20180373
03-09-2020DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0373
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Objectives:
to reflect on professional, user and family autonomy as a centrality in Best Practices in nursing in Brazil.
Methods:
this is a theoretical-reflective study.
Results:
from a retrospective look at the creation and evolution of nursing autonomy in its knowledge and care practices, it exposes the use of autonomy in nursing care and foster the participation of the user and his family as the center of Best Practices in nursing.
Final considerations:
the text suggests the institutional commitment of health services to the formal postgraduate education of nurses and the prospect of more autonomy and quality for the expression of Best Practices in nursing.