Resultados: 40

Equipment failure: conducts of nurses and implications for patient safety

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (4), 2018
ABSTRACT Objectives: To identify equipment failures during handling by nurses and analyze the conduct of the professionals when these failures occur. Methods: Descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study, whose field was the intensive care unit of a public institution, and the participants were day n...

Patient safety culture in a university hospital

ABSTRACT Objective: to assess patient safety culture in a university hospital. Method: cross-sectional study with data collection through the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture applied in electronic device. A total of 381 employees were interviewed, corresponding to 46% of the sum of eligible pr...

Patient safety in nursing care during medication administration

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the conformity of care practices of the nursing team during the administration of drugs through central vascular catheter. Method: a descriptive, prospective, observational study conducted in an Intensive Care Unit. The non-probabilistic intentional sample consisted of 3...

Patient safety and infection control: bases for curricular integration

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze curricular integration between teaching of patient safety and good infection prevention and control practices. Method: Integrative review, designed to answer the question: "How does curricular integration of content about 'patient safety teaching' and content about 'infec...

Adhesion to patient safety protocols in emergency care units

Rev. bras. enferm; 71 (supl.1), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To investigate compliance of national patient safety protocols in Emergency Care Units (UPA) of the Paraná State. Method: From April until September 2016, the exploratory stage of the action research was conducted on stratified sampling with 377 patients of eight units, with use of...

Stimulus-response time to alarms of the intra-aortic balloon pump: safe care practices

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (6), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To characterize the sound alarms of the Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) during aortic counterpulsation therapy; to measure the stimulus-response time of the team to these; and to discuss the implications of increasing this time for patient safety from the alarm fatigue perspective. ...

Identifying nursing interventions associated with the accuracy used nursing diagnoses for patients with liver cirrhosis

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the nursing interventions associated with the most accurate and frequently used NANDA International, Inc. (NANDA-I) nursing diagnoses for patients with liver cirrhosis. Method: this is a descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study. Results: a total of 12 nursing di...

Patient safety and nursing: interface with stress and Burnout Syndrome

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (5), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze studies on stress, Burnout Syndrome, and patient safety in the scope of nursing care in the hospital environment. Method: This was an integrative literature review. Data collection was performed in February 2016 in the following databases: Medical Literature Analysis and ...

Use of technologies in intravenous therapy: contributions to a safer practice

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objectives: To identify what are the difficulties of the nursing staff in the management of technologies during intravenous therapy (IVT) and discuss the difficulties identified under the perspective of patient's safety. Method: Descriptive study of qualitative approach with data collected by ...

Competencias de Enfermería para la seguridad del paciente

Rev. cuba. enferm; 27 (3), 2011
En el período comprendido entre el 2002 al 2005 se realizó una investigación aprobada por el Programa Ramal en Investigaciones en Sistemas y Servicios de Salud la que consistió en la evaluación de las competencias específicas del personal de enfermería que labora en los servicios de neonatología,...