Arterial hypertension is one of the main risk factors as to the development of cardiovascular and renal disease and reaches a great part of the Brazilian population. The objectives of this study are: describe the profile of hypertension people and identify their knowledge about the disease. This is a des...
This study aimed to carry out the conceptual validation of the elements of the diagnosis Impaired Verbal Communication and assess its inclusion in the taxonomy. The Concept Analysis step of Hoskins' Validation Model was used, based on a bibliographic survey with the following descriptors: communication, ...
Publications of research in child health have been increasing every year. This study?s objective was to analyze the content of articles about health child from abstracts published in Brazilians journals of nursing classified on ?Qualis CAPES? as International B and C, in the period between 2000 and 2005....
This review study is aimed at analyzing the challenges and limitations of the validation of single use medical device regarding cleaning, sterilization, functional performance and integrity. It was a search in the database LILACS Medline / Pubmed of articles published in the period 2002 to 2007. Eleven a...
It is an exploratory and qualitative study carried out by means of a systematic review with the objective of identifying the Nursing production regarding health education and aging in Brazilian publications from 2000 to 2006. In order to search for articles, the online BDENF data bank was utilized and th...
The high occurrence rates of Hodgkin's Lymphomas and the treatment-associated complications as well as the complication of the disease itself evidence the need for a technical-scientific training of nurses in order to provide health care to this population. In this sense, this study had the aim to identi...
This article has the objective of identify the benefits to health related to smoke quitting from the perspective of smokers in abstinence. Qualitative study in which 16 individuals from Porto Alegre who have ceased smoking for more than six months, with dependence ? 5 in the Fagerstrõm scale, were inter...
This paper presents an outline of the research using a qualitative approach: "Sexuality as a cultural element: signification and resignification in the formation of nurses". This study involved undergraduate nursing students from a Federal Public University in the south of Brazil, and was carried out thr...
To evaluate quality of life in elderly with stroke and to investigate the relationship, and the influence of social-demographic variables and health in quality of life of those subjects. Quality of life was evaluated by SF-36 - "The Medical Outcomes Study 36-item shorts-form health survey". Analysis of v...
Musical visitations are done with the intention of reducing the negative influences related to isolation, dependency and lack of activity present in the hospital environment. This study discussed the musical visitations from the optics of the hospitalized client and its implications as therapeutic strate...
