Resultados: 163

Análise de eventos adversos em pacientes internados em unidade de terapia intensiva

Resumo Objetivo Avaliar a incidência de eventos adversos e associá-los com a carga de trabalho de enfermagem, o dimensionamento da equipe de enfermagem e o perfil de gravidade do paciente. Métodos Foi realizado um estudo transversal, prospectivo, com abordagem quantitativa, em 304 pacientes consecut...

Classificação de pacientes e carga de trabalho de enfermagem em terapia intensiva: comparação entre instrumentos

Rev. gaúch. enferm; 38 (2), 2017
RESUMO Objetivos Avaliar as médias da carga de trabalho de enfermagem obtidas por meio do Nursing Activities Score (NAS), bem como os extratos do grau de dependência de pacientes obtidos pelo Sistema de Classificação de Pacientes de Perroca. Método Estudo prospectivo realizado na Unidade de Tera...

Microbiological testing of devices used in maintaining peripheral venous catheters

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the use of peripheral venous catheters based on microbiological analysis of devices (dressing and three-way stopcocks) and thus contribute to the prevention and infection control. Methods: this was a prospective study of microbiological analysis of 30 three-way stopcocks...

A new contribution to the classification of stressors affecting nursing professionals

Objective: to identify and classify the most important occupational stressors affecting nursing professionals in the medical units within a hospital. Method: quantitative-qualitative, descriptive and prospective study performed with Delphi technique in the medical units of a general university hospital,...

Nasoenteral tube: factors associated with delay between indication and use in emergency services

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (2), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: to know the time between indication and use of a nasoenteral tube (NET) and factors associated with delays. Method: A prospective cohort study that followed adults in a Brazilian emergency department, since the indication of the use of a NET, evaluating clinical variables and the wo...

Nursing Diagnoses of hospitalized patients with heart failure: a longitudinal study

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (6), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE Identifying Nursing Diagnoses of fatigue, activity intolerance and decreased cardiac output in hospitalized patients with heart failure and verifying the association between the defining characteristics and the Nursing Diagnoses. METHOD A longitudinal and prospective study that follo...

Predictors of hope among women with breast cancer during chemotherapy

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (6), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE Identifying the predictors of hope in patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy treatment. METHOD A prospective longitudinal study. The sample was composed of 122 women who responded to the instruments of hope, anxiety and depression, coping, fatigue, religiosity and self-estee...

Aids em idosos: motivos que levam ao diagnóstico tardio

Rev. bras. enferm; 69 (6), 2016
RESUMO Objetivo: investigar entre os idosos vivendo com HIV/Aids e os profissionais de saúde, quais são os motivos que levam ao diagnóstico tardio da infecção pelo HIV nos idosos. Método: estudo prospectivo, qualitativo, realizado em ambulatório especializado com idosos vivendo com HIV/aids, dia...

Nursing workload for cancer patients under palliative care

Rev. Esc. Enferm. USP; 50 (5), 2016
Abstract OBJECTIVE To verify the nursing workload required by cancer patients undergoing palliative care and possible associations between the demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients and the nursing workload. METHOD This is a quantitative, cross-sectional, prospective study developed i...

Health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality in patients on peritoneal dialysis

Objective: to characterize deaths that occurred, and the association between socio-demographic, clinical, laboratory variables and health-related quality of life and the outcome of death in patients on peritoneal dialysis, over a two year period after an initial assessment. Method: observational, prospe...