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Quality of nursing care and satisfaction of patients attended at a teaching hospital

OBJECTIVES: assess the quality of nursing care, the patients' satisfaction and the correlation between both. METHOD: cross-sectional study, involving 275 patients hospitalized at a teaching hospital in the Central-West of Brazil. The data were collected through the simultaneous application of three instr...

Efficacy of Chinese auriculotherapy for stress in nursing staff: a randomized clinical trial

OBJECTIVE: this randomized single blind clinical study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of auriculotherapy with and without a protocol for reducing stress levels among nursing staff. METHOD: a total of 175 nursing professionals with medium and high scores according to Vasconcelos' Stress Symptoms List were...

Active case finding: community health workers' activity related to tuberculosis control in a large city, brazil

Texto & contexto enferm; 23 (2), 2014
This study analyzed the Community Health Workers' activity in active case finding in Ribeirão Preto-SP. Cross sectional study, conducted in 2009-2010, with the use of a structured form, which was applied to 105 Community Health Workers and research of secondary data. Indicators were created based on the...

Validation of an instrument for investigating knowledge on the initial assistance to burns victims

Texto & contexto enferm; 23 (2), 2014
This study featured a methodological quantitative approach and its objective was to validate an instrument on the initial assistance given to burns victims, on medical and nursing knowledge, using the theoretical stage of Pasquali's model. The data were collected in June - August 2008, in two parts: anal...

Continuing education in the development of competences in nurses

Texto & contexto enferm; 23 (2), 2014
This study aimed at characterizing the potential of continuing education to develop technical, relational/communicational, and ethical/political competences in nurses. This is a qualitative study undertaken with 12 nurses. Data collection was performed through documental analysis, interviews, and observa...

Death and dying in the formation process of nurses from the perspective of nursing professors

Texto & contexto enferm; 23 (2), 2014
This qualitative and descriptive study aimed to identify how nursing course professors approach death and dying in the university and what the implications are on the formation process. Ten professors of the undergraduate nursing course were intentionally selected and underwent semi-structured interviews...

Amongst wishes and possibilities: eating habits of pregnant women from an urban community in Southern Brazil

Texto & contexto enferm; 23 (2), 2014
This qualitative study had the aim to understand the eating habits of pregnant women living in an urban community in southern Brazil. The method adopted was the ethnonursing approach and data were collected by means of the qualifying guide Observation-Participation-Reflection, with four pregnant women. T...

Nurses' voice when perceiving the pain of child burn patients

Texto & contexto enferm; 23 (2), 2014
The objective of this study was to reveal nurses' perception in view of the nociceptive pain in child burn patients. This qualitative descriptive study was conducted at the Federal District Pediatric Hospital in Mexico City. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with ten nurses working in t...