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Nursing diagnostic in nursing’s professional practice apply in a surgical clinic

Nursing diagnostic expresses the nurse’s clinical judgment. Its uses point the necessity of standardizing terms used by means of terminologies. This study has as objective analyze the process of transcription nursing diagnostics from NANDA terminology, to CIPE terminology in a surgical clinic. Deals of ...

The use of individual protection equipment for nurses of a hospital

Introduction: The individual protection equipment(IPE) is of measures to minimize and even though to eliminate hazards to worker’s health. Its use is essential in the environment of worker’s nursing. Aims: To observe the use of the IPE for nurses in a hospital. Materials and Method: Observation researc...

The domiciliary health care and its state of art: a bibliographic study

Domiciliary care stands out since the decade of 90 as a mode which assists patient and family, understood in the social, economic and cultural contexts. Thus, this research aimed to ascertain the state of the art on domiciliary care. It is a bibliographical research about domiciliary care held between Fe...

Oncologic EmergencIes: Nursing Care proposed in Literature

Introduction: Cancer patients need special care which improve their quality of life and protect them from complications. Nevertheless, it is not always possible to prevent undesired events, thus knowledge on oncologic emergencies is needed for fast interventions that can save lives. Objectives: To identi...

Evaluation of prenatal care in low risk pregnancies in the city of Francisco Morato-SP

A descriptive exploratory study whose aim was to verify the quality of low-risk prenatal assistance in the city of Francisco Morato, based on indicators. The analysis observed the triad proposed by Donabedian9, (structure, process and outcome). Seventy-seven (77) puerperae were interviewed, the registrie...

Major causes of domestic accidents in children: a descriptive-exploratory study

Domestic accidents can be considered a public health problem due to their high morbidity and mortality rates. The aims of this descriptive-exploratory study with a quantitative approach were to identify domestic accidents involving children in their first infancy, and to know their major causes. The samp...

Associated aspects to the age at sexual initiation among adolescents from Sao Paulo city: a quantitative study

Using survival analysis, we analyzed data from 363 both female and male 15 to 19 year-old adolescents enrolled in a family health unit in the east area of São Paulo city. They filled a self-administered structured questionnaire at home in May 2007. Results showed a statistical difference in the age of s...

Palliative Care: knowledge and feelings of the nurse working in internal medicine and infectious and contagious diseases units of a general hospital: a qualitative study

This study originated from the author’s concern about providing care to patients at life’s end, as she observed that this care was not approached in a holistic manner. Regardless of the patients’ prognoses, the nurse is the health care professional who spends most of the day next to the patients and t...