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Association between skin injuries and the importance atributed to prevention by health professionals during the pandemic

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the association between the occurrence of skin lesions due to the use of products and/or personal protective equipment and the importance attributed to preventive care among health professionals working on the front lines of the struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Meth...

Debriefing, a dialogical space for the development of reflective thinking in nursing

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the pedagogical elements necessary for the debriefing to favor the development of reflective thinking. Method: A single case study developed at the Centro de Simulación en Salud of the Escuela de Enfermería of the Universidad de Costa Rica in October 2018. Data were ...

Evaluation of the usability of the Quali+ mobile application for people with high blood pressure

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the usability of the "Quali+" mobile application prototype for people with high blood pressure. Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional study of heuristic evaluation of a mobile application prototype carried out between June and July 2021, in a university hospital. Partic...

Factors associated with external causes in elderly attended by the mobile emergency care service

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the prevalence and factors associated with external causes in elderly people attended by the mobile emergency care service. Method: Cross-sectional study with 1,972 pre-hospital care records of elderly victims of external causes from 2019 to 2020. A descriptive and bivari...

Construction and validation of an instrument for evaluating Lean Healthcare in healthcare institutions

ABSTRACT Objective: To build and validate an instrument to evaluate Lean Healthcare in healthcare institutions. Method: Methodological study conducted in three stages: 1) Instrument construction; 2) Content validity using the Delphi technique with 14 experts; and 3) Construct validation using Structu...

Influence of self-efficiency beliefs on the health and well-being of university students in COVID-19

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze general self-efficacy beliefs in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic and their correlation with psychological well-being and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Method: Cross-sectional study, carried out with nursing, medicine and psychology students from a high...

Artificial intelligence to predict bed bath time in Intensive Care Units

ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the predictive performance of different artificial intelligence algorithms to estimate bed bath execution time in critically ill patients. Methods: a methodological study, which used artificial intelligence algorithms to predict bed bath time in critically ill patients. T...

Evidence of intrauterine device insertion by nurses in Primary Health Care: an integrative review

ABSTRACT Objectives: to synthesize and analyze evidence on intrauterine device insertion by nurses in Primary Health Care. Methods: an integrative review, carried out in the BDENF, CINAHL, LILACS, SciELO, Scopus, PubMed and Web of Science databases in June 2022, delimiting the period from 1960 to 2022....

Practice of immersion in hot water to relieve pain in neonatology: an integrative review

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify immersion use in hot water to relieve pain in newborns. Methods: an integrative literature review, carried out in the PubMed, VHL, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, Cochrane and SciELO databases, with investigations in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese, published between 200...