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Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and its components in a population of patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Method: a cross-sectional study was conducted with 201 diabetic patients. A descriptive analysis and Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests ( p <0.05) were ...

Impact of home visits on the functional capacity of patients with venous ulcers

ABSTRACT Objective: to compare the impact of home visits, before and after instructions, on the functional capacity of adult and elderly patients with venous ulcers, by means of the KATZ-EIAVD Scale. Method: experimental, clinical, randomized, non-blind and controlled study, developed with 32 patients ...

Semiotics and semiology of Nursing: evaluation of undergraduate students' knowledge on procedures

ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the knowledge of scholars on Nursing regarding simple hands hygiene (SHH), blood pressure measurement (BP), peripheral venipuncture (PV) with venous catheter and male urethral catheterization delay (UCD) procedures. Method: quantitative study carried out between February a...

Moral suffering among nurse educators of technical courses in nursing

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand situations of moral suffering experienced at work by nurse educators of technical courses in nursing. Method: a qualitative study with discursive textual analysis by means of semi-structured interviews with ten nurse educators at two professional educational institutio...

Knowledge of the nursing team on pressure ulcer prevention

ABSTRACT Objective: describe and analyze the nursing team's knowledge about classification, evaluation and measures to prevent pressure ulcers (PU) in patients hospitalized in the ICU of a teaching hospital in the city of Manaus. Method: a descriptive and exploratory study was conducted after approval ...

Religious and spiritual coping in people living with HIV/Aids

ABSTRACT Objective: evaluate the religiosity and the religious/spiritual coping of people living with HIV/Aids. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional study with quantitative approach, conducted in a reference HIV/Aids outpatient clinic in a university hospital of Recife-PE, Brazil, from June to November...

Multi-professional team's perception of nurses' competences in liver transplantations

ABSTRACT Objective describe the multi-professional team's perception of nurses' competences in liver transplantation programs. Method: descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Data were collected through a questionnaire. Participants were 12 professionals of the liver transplantation team of a re...

Conformity of nurse prescribing to care needs: nurses' understanding

ABSTRACT Objective: investigate the understanding of nurses on nurse prescribing conformity to the care needs of hospitalized patients and factors associated with that conformity. Method: a descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, was conducted at 20 in-patient units of a teaching hospital in t...

Moral sensitivity in Primary Health Care nurses

ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the profile and describe the moral sensitivity of primary health care nurses. Method: this is a quantitative, transversal, exploratory, descriptive study. The data were collected through the Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire translated and adapted to Brazil. 100 primar...