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Workloads and occupational accidents in a rural environment

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
This study's objective was to identify the types of workload accruing from agricultural work that are recognized by farmworkers and to verify occupational accidents in two rural environments. This quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study was conducted with 259 farmworkers in the state of Rio Grand...

Validation of educational hypermedia about peripheral venipuncture

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
The objective was to validate an educational hypermedia about peripheral venipuncture. This is a methodological study, conducted from January to October 2012, among nursing specialists and students. Binomial and paired t-tests were used for the analysis, where values of p<0.05 were considered statisti...

Patient safety culture in a teaching hospital: differences in perception existing in the different scenarios of this institution

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
This quantitative descriptive-exploratory study aimed to evaluate the perception of nursing professionals regarding the patient safety culture and to identify differences in perception in the hospital's units. A total of 301 nursing professionals participated. The collection instrument was the Agency for...

Factors associated with family dysfunction among non-institutionalized older people

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
The objective of this study was to analyze the factors and their prevalence associated with family dysfunction, as well as the functional capacity of the elderly population, in the capital of the state of Goiás, Brazil. This was a cross-sectional and analytical study, which was developed with elderly pe...

Perception of healthcare professionals regarding primary interventions: preventing domestic violence

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
The purpose of the study was to learn about the perception of Family Health Team professionals from the Violence Prevention Program regarding primary interventions to prevent domestic violence. The study was linked to the research "Primary and secondary intervention in domestic violence from the perspect...

The social network for confronting conjugal violence: representations of women who experience this health issue

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
This qualitative research, grounded in Social Representations Theory, aimed to describe, based on the representations of women with a history of undergoing conjugal violence, the elements which constitute the social support network for confronting this health problem. Interviews were held with 11 women w...

Relationship between work ability in nursing and minor psychological disorders

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
This study aimed to evaluate the association between minor psychological disorders and the reduction of work capacity of nursing professionals. Epidemiological study (cross-sectional) involving 498 (84.1%) nursing professionals at a university hospital in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We used t...

Being cared by a family member: the existential feelings of cancer patients

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
The present article aimed to understand the daily life of cancer patients under palliative care while experiencing home care provided by family members. This was a Heideggerian phenomenological study with 20 patients being treated at the primary health care service of Northeast Paraná, Brazil, between N...

Checklist for the intrahospital transport of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
Checklists represent a simple tool incorporating barriers for protecting patient safety. The objective was to develop a script for patient evaluation for the intrahospital transport of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in the Triângulo Mineiro region, based on two strategies. Th...

Violence in the view of young people in the perspective of corporeality and vulnerability

Texto & contexto enferm; 24 (2), 2015
The aim was to understand how violence is understood by the young, in their experience, in the perspective of corporeality and vulnerability. Qualitative research was undertaken with 21 young people, students of nursing at a university in the West of the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. The information...