Resultados: 171

Microbiological testing of devices used in maintaining peripheral venous catheters

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the use of peripheral venous catheters based on microbiological analysis of devices (dressing and three-way stopcocks) and thus contribute to the prevention and infection control. Methods: this was a prospective study of microbiological analysis of 30 three-way stopcocks...

A new contribution to the classification of stressors affecting nursing professionals

Objective: to identify and classify the most important occupational stressors affecting nursing professionals in the medical units within a hospital. Method: quantitative-qualitative, descriptive and prospective study performed with Delphi technique in the medical units of a general university hospital,...

Nursing Diagnoses of hospitalized patients with heart failure: a longitudinal study

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (6), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE Identifying Nursing Diagnoses of fatigue, activity intolerance and decreased cardiac output in hospitalized patients with heart failure and verifying the association between the defining characteristics and the Nursing Diagnoses. METHOD A longitudinal and prospective study that follo...

Predictors of hope among women with breast cancer during chemotherapy

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (6), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE Identifying the predictors of hope in patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy treatment. METHOD A prospective longitudinal study. The sample was composed of 122 women who responded to the instruments of hope, anxiety and depression, coping, fatigue, religiosity and self-estee...

Nasoenteral tube: factors associated with delay between indication and use in emergency services

ABSTRACT Objective: to know the time between indication and use of a nasoenteral tube (NET) and factors associated with delays. Method: A prospective cohort study that followed adults in a Brazilian emergency department, since the indication of the use of a NET, evaluating clinical variables and the wo...

Nursing workload for cancer patients under palliative care

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (5), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE To verify the nursing workload required by cancer patients undergoing palliative care and possible associations between the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients and the nursing workload. METHOD This is a quantitative, cross-sectional, prospective study developed i...

Aids em idosos: motivos que levam ao diagnóstico tardio

RESUMO Objetivo: investigar entre os idosos vivendo com HIV/Aids e os profissionais de saúde, quais são os motivos que levam ao diagnóstico tardio da infecção pelo HIV nos idosos. Método: estudo prospectivo, qualitativo, realizado em ambulatório especializado com idosos vivendo com HIV/aids, dia...

Health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality in patients on peritoneal dialysis

Objective: to characterize deaths that occurred, and the association between socio-demographic, clinical, laboratory variables and health-related quality of life and the outcome of death in patients on peritoneal dialysis, over a two year period after an initial assessment. Method: observational, prospe...

Pharmaceutical interventions in medications prescribed for administration via enteral tubes in a teaching hospital

Abstract Objective: to analyze the impact of guidelines regarding errors in medications prescribed for administration through enteral tubes. Method: quantitative study, in three phases, undertaken in internal medicine, neurology and an intensive care unit in a general teaching hospital. In Phase 1, t...

Prevalence and factors associated with preoperative anxiety in children aged 5-12 years

Abstract Objective: to estimate the prevalence and factors associated with preoperative anxiety in children who wait for outpatient surgery. Method: cross-sectional analysis of baseline data of a prospective cohort study that investigates the predictors of postoperative pain in children aged 5-12 years...