Brazilian Nursing Journal (Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem - REBEn)

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Authors: Maria Goretti David Lopes Maria Goretti David Lopes

Editorial.

811-9

Authors: Lidiana Flora Vidôto da Costa, Maria Isabel Pedreira de Freitas

Descriptve-exploratory study that aimed to outline the profile and the actions of workers who conduct the reprocessing of critical devices at primary health care units in a city in the State of São Paulo. Thirty-four primary health care units were surveyed. Individuals responsible for reprocessing are nursing assistants (88.2%), that conducted concomitantly activities related to immunization (11.7%), dressing (26.4%) collection of samples for exams (23.5%); 32.4% had received training at the beginning of their reprocessing activities, and 8,82% at least one year before. The lack of dully skilled individuals may influence the quality of the process and constitute a limiting factor for the control of cross infection. Descriptors: Nursing staff, Sterilization; Health services;

834-6

Authors: Edna Gurgel Casanova, Gerturdes Teixeira Lopes eira Lopes

Objectives: to analyze the information received by the family from patients interned in intensive care units about their clinical condition and arguing with the nursing team possibilities of new strategies of interventions to theses patients’ relatives. Research was carried out in a university hospital institution. Investigated individuals were patients‘ family and nursing team. For data collection it was used sixty hours of participant observation and ten semi-structured interviews, beyond the creation and generation of the movie based on field’s diary notations. For data analysis it was used thematic content analysis. Resulting categories were: the communication and the nursing and the care with the family. It was concluded that the nursing care as one complex practice that exceeds the use of techniques and/or technology, implies the necessity of an efficient communication potential. Descriptors: Nursing; Communication; Professional-family relations.

844-9

Authors: Andreza Santos Almeida, Neylor Rodrigo Oliveira Aragão, Elaine Moura, Gabriela de Carvalho Lima, Edilene Curvelo Hora, Lausimar ausimary Araújo São Mateus Silva

This is a study with qualitative approach focusing on the relatives’ feelings related to the patient who is admitted in intensive care unity. Twenty-four relatives were interviewed in a public hospital in Aracaju, SE, Brazil between July and August, 2007. The information was collected through an interview and evaluated according to content analysis. The results showed the following feelings: anxiety; worry; anguish and sadness; powerless; pain and sorrow; lost; fear and panic; stress; trust and security; insecurity; faith and hope and unexplainable feelings. Anxiety was the most common one and was related to the strange environment, the diversified procedures, fear of what will happen tomorrow and expectations of their relatives to get better. Descriptors: Family; Family nursing; Emotions.

856-62

Authors: Geraldo Magela Salomé, Maria de Fátima Moraes Salles Martins, Vitória Helena Cunha Espósito

Objective: to know the meanings fo the work in an emergency unit for nursing professionals. Method: qualitative research with phenomenological approach. Data collection was obtained by means of 14 interviews with nursing professionals. Results: coexisting feelings of nursing professionals are fatigue, exhaustion, anguish and revolt for the work overload and resources limitations face the situations that involve death risk. Conclusion: although stress faced by nursing professionals during the daily work, they keep the commitment in assisting with quality and humanization, existing a trend for emotional exhaustion, loss of heart and feelings of anguish, what reaffirms the importance of heath prevention in work environment. Descriptors :Nursing; Stress, psychological; Occupational health.

870-5

Authors: Marco Túlio de Freitas, Raquel Conceição Ferreira, Cláudia Silami de Magalhães, Allyson Nogueira Moreira, Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira

This study evaluated the care in philanthropic and private long-term institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A sample of 181 caregivers of elderly was interviewed and was evaluated rate elderly / caregiver, their training in service, satisfaction, difficulties in function and activities executed. The rate elderly / caregiver was higher in philanthropic. Most acquired their duties in helping the elderly. In private, a higher percentage learned their duties in courses and 54.7% have training after admission, the percentage being higher in private institutions (64.6%, p <0.05). Almost all reported satisfaction in the profession, but 51.4% reported difficulties in practice. The activity carried out more was the bath of the elderly(22.5%). Problems were raised regarding the structure and provision of services to elderly in institutions, especially in philanthropic. Descriptors: Caregivers; Homes for the aged; Old age assistance.

883-8

Authors: Alessa Alves, Isaac Rosa Marques

A correlational study was carried out with 303 nursing students from a private nursing school in the city of São Paulo, SP, Brazil. The study aimed at establishing correlation among risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease. Isolated risk factor of major relevance was sedentary lifestyle (80,2%). Associated risk factors of major significance was BSA > 25 correlated with age range from 21 to 25 and gender male (p=0,043). It was concluded that among nursing students the feeding habits and sedentary lifestyle are determinant for weight overload and this factors may be associated to a future occurrence of Coronary heart Disease. Descriptors: Coronary disease; Attributable risk; Nursing students.

894-900

Authors: Talita Ferreira Dourado Laurindo de Alcântara, Isaac Rosa Marques

The neurological monitoring is an assessment and accompaniment of data supplied by technical devices of alterations in the nervous system. This study aimed at performing an update about the different methods of intensive neurological monitoring and establish relations with the nursing work. The impact of the supplement and electronics equipment renewal of vital support for the critical patient is a concrete fact, and must make the nursing team adapted with the rhythm of new technology in service of patient’s health. Monitoring patient with neurological alterations is a great challenge, but is through it that they get trustworthy and necessary information’s for nursing interventions. Descriptors: Neurology; Monitoring; Intensive care; Nursing care.

906-11

Authors: Helena Heidtmann Vaghetti, Maria Itayra Padilha, Rosimeri Carvalho da Silva, Jorge Manuel Trigo de Almeida Simões

That was a review study that aimed to analyze the interpretations that authors of dissertations and thesis about the meanings expressed by health workers, about the relations of subsistence with the job, in the organizational culture of public hospitals in Brazil. Data were extracted from from dissertations and theses in the period from 2002 to 2006. The theoretical methodological reference laid in the interpretive anthropology by Clifford Geertz. The results point that the subsistence relations conduct to alienation from work. The payment generates economic non satisfaction that pry the need to have other jobs. The work stability feeds the disengagement and actions that stimulates the transgression of standards and help the own governs in public hospitals in Brazil. Descriptors: Public hospitals; Organizational culture; Personnel administration, hospital; Hospital administration.

916-8

Authors: Rosana Chami Gentil

Reflection on the nurse’s personal marketing based on beliefs and values explained by the history of the main characters that care for patients. It brings to the surface reflections on the ambiguity between the social image of nursing and scientific, technological and humanistic knowledge developed over the time. It recognizes that there is still a fixation on the attributes relating to attitude and moral of the professionals to the detriment of having high regard for the technical and scientific knowledge. It verifies that the History of Nursing allows understanding that the fight against prejudice in the collective imagination lends weight to the social acceptance and recognition of this profession through the promotion of Nursing Science and the demonstration of its application in the professional practice. Descriptors: History of Nursing; Marketing; Professional practice.

923-7

Authors: Maria Vitória Hoffmann, Isabel Cristina Santos Oliveira

Experience report that describes the methodological approach - non-directive interview, highlighting the possibility of group approach. It presents the studies that used this type of group and the dynamics of data collection. It was concluded that the approach enables the researcher to combine theory and practice around a study proposition. Descriptores: Descriptores: Q Descriptores: ualitative research; Data collection; Interview; Family.

932-7

Authors: Liane Colliselli, Larissa H. T. Tombini, Maria Elisabeth Leba, Kenya Schimidt Reibnitz

Experience report of the Unochapecó Graduation Nursing Course presenting the implantation trajectory of the supervised curricular practical professional training, striving for the stand out of the contributions referring to the enlargement of the nurse role through the diversification of the practical settings and the possibilities of strengthening of the integration teaching-service. From 2006 on, there was a meaningful enlargement on the insertion of the students with care actions, management and education in the settings of the basic attention system, schools, and community spaces. This made a greater insertion of the students in the social context possible, making feasible its improvement in the abilities required to the professional nurse. On the other hand, it fortified the partnership relations among the graduating institution, professionals, managers and users, enlarging the possibilities of integration education service. Describers: Describers Clinical clerkship; Education, nursing; Education, nursing, diploma programs.