Objective: To develop and validate an educational game for the assessment, prevention, and treatment of IAD. Method:The game “IAD – Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis” is an applied research study with technological production. The process followed three stages: analysis, design, and validation. In...
Annually, approximately 18.6 million people are affected by a diabetes-related foot ulcer (DFU), with a cumulative incidence of 5.65% for the first ulceration.DFU develops gradually as a result of repetitive trauma in areas of higher pressure caused by deformities and biomechanical changes aggravated by ...
Objective: To determine the epidemiological and clinical profile of individuals with chronic skin lesions treated at the Enterostomal therapy Outpatient Clinic between 2014 and March 2020. Method: A descriptive and retrospective study with a documentary analysis of medical records of patients with chroni...
Objective: To develop and validate a book on the management of incontinence-associated dermatitis in newborns, children, adults, and older adults. Method: A descriptive, exploratory study. The chapters of the book were defined after a search for studies published since 2009 i...
Objective: To evaluate surgical wound complications by comparing conventional dressings and incisional negative pressure therapy (NPT) in spinal surgeries. Method: This was a longitudinal, observational, exploratory, and retrospective study with a quantitative ...
Objective: To assess how enterostomal therapy nurses perceive entrepreneurship within the specialty. Method: A qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study conducted through semi-structured interviews between January and April 2020, involving 26 entrepreneurial enterostomal the...
Objective: To validate the content, appearance, and semantics of a guide for peristomal skin care in adults with elimination ostomies. Method: A methodological study structured in four phases: 1) Exploratory phase, 2) Development, 3) Validation phase, and 4) Publication. This resear...
Objective: To identify the point prevalence of pressure injuries (PI) and medical device-related pressure injuries (MDRPIs), the associated demographic and clinical factors, and to describe them in terms of classification, site, and number. Method: A cross-sectional study conducted in the Intensive Care ...
Objective: To investigate the care, challenges, and difficulties faced by the surgical nursing team when caring for patients undergoing tracheostomy during the intraoperative and immediate postoperative periods. Method: A qualitative, descriptive study conducted through individual interviews wi...
Objective: To analyze the prevalence and factors associated with infection in patients with diabetes mellitus who underwent lower extremity amputation. Method: Cross-sectional, retrospective, and analytical study carried out in a high complexity hospital in Teresina, Piauí, with 70 medical rec...
