Resultados: 28

Construction and validation of a tool to Assess the Use of Light Technologies at Intensive Care Units

ABSTRACT Objective: to construct and validate a tool to assess the use of light technologies by the nursing team at Intensive Care Units. Method: methodological study in which the tool was elaborated by means of the psychometric method for construction based on the categorization of health technologies...

Financial impact of nursing professionals staff required in an Intensive Care Unit

ABSTRACT Objective: to calculate the cost of the average time of nursing care spent and required by patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the financial expense for the right dimension of staff of nursing professionals. Method: a descriptive, quantitative research, using the case study method, d...

Interruptions of activities experienced by nursing professionals in an intensive care unit

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the interruptions experienced by nursing professionals while undertaking care activities. Method: an observational study undertaken in two intensive care units. Two nurses observed 33 nursing professionals for three hours. The data were recorded in real time, using a se...

Prediction of risk and incidence of dry eye in critical patients

Objectives: to estimate the incidence of dry eye, to identify risk factors and to establish a risk prediction model for its development in adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit of a public hospital. Method: concurrent cohort, conducted between March and June, 2014, with 230 patients admitte...

Use of Balanced Indicators as a Management Tool in Nursing

Objective: to develop a proposal for a nursing panel of indicators based on the guiding principles of Balanced Scorecard. Method: a single case study that ranked 200 medical records of patients, management reports and protocols, which are capable of generating indicators. Results: we identified 163 varia...

The Living, Dynamic and Complex Environment Care in Intensive Care Unit

OBJECTIVE:

to understand the meaning of the Adult Intensive Care Unit environment of care, experienced by professionals working in this unit, managers, patients, families and professional support services, as well as build a theoretical model about the Adult Intensive Care Unit env...

Assessment of disinfection of hospital surfaces using different monitoring methods

OBJECTIVE:

to assess the efficiency of cleaning/disinfection of surfaces of an Intensive Care Unit.

METHOD:

descriptive-exploratory study with quantitative approach conducted over the course of four weeks. Visual inspection, bioluminescence adenosine...

Pleasure and suffering in intensive care unit nursing staff

The aim of this study was to analyze the causal factors of pleasure and suffering in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nursing staff and to compare the occurrence of these factors at the beginning and end of the career. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted with 26 nurses and 96 nursing technici...