Essential competencies required of nurse managers in times of COVID-19: A scoping review.

Aim: To identify the essential competencies required of nurse managers in healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Nurse managers play a vital role in healthcare services organization, requiring a diverse set of competencies. The increasing occurrence of epidemics in recent decades underscores the importance of understanding these competencies in pivotal junctures.

Competency mapping of primary healthcare nurses on the Brazil-Paraguay border.

Objective: To map the competencies of Primary Health Care nurses in border regions of Brazil and Paraguay.

Method: Exploratory qualitative studyconducted between February and July 2020, with 64 nurses from six Brazilian municipalities bordering Paraguay. It was conducted in three stages: 1.

Generalized Resistance Deficits in inmates with hypertension: missing resources that limit health.

Objective: to understand the Generalized Resistance Deficits of people deprived of liberty with hypertension in a Brazilian prison unit.

Method: qualitative research, anchored in Salutogenesis, carried out with 38 people with hypertension from a Brazilian prison unit, from February to July 2022, with a semi-structured interview with open-ended questions, whose analysis was thematic, explaining the limitations to health in prison.

Results: 13 Generalized Resistance Deficits were reported, mostly related to the prison environment and, to a lesser extent, to the social group and the individual, respectively.

Primary Healthcare of black immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To analyze how the healthcare of black immigrants was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Primary Healthcare.

Method: An exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out through semi-structured interviews with professionals who worked in 10 Health Units in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, from October 2020 to January 2021. Structural racism was the conceptual framework.

[Organization of healthcare systems to confront COVID-19: a scoping reviewOrganización de los sistemas de salud para hacer frente a la COVID-19: revisión del alcance].

Objective: To identify evidence in the literature on the response of managers regarding the organization of global healthcare systems to face the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: For this scoping review, searches were performed in 11 databases accessible through the Virtual Health Library. Eleven studies, published in 2019 and 2020, were selected based on the following guiding question: "How did managers act to organize healthcare systems to face the coronavirus pandemic?".

Care for women in situations of violence: construction of a model of permanent health education.

Objective: To propose a Permanent Health Education Model with strategies linked to the Five Disciplines framework for the development of competencies of professionals who work in direct care for women in situations of violence.

Method: A qualitative research carried out by the focus group technique, with professionals who are part of an intersectoral network in Curitiba-PR, from August to October 2019. Data analyzed by content analysis in the thematic modality, in the light of the theoretical framework of the Five Disciplines: personal mastery; mental model; shared vision; team learning and systems thinking.

Approaches of the systematization of nursing care, complexity and ontology in the professional practice of nurses.

Objective: To reflect on the approaches of the Systematization of Nursing Care, ontology and complex thinking in professional nursing practice.

Method: A reflective theoretical study grounded on the Complexity Theory of Edgar Morin and on the ontological principles of computational application which enables representing nursing concepts.

Results: The paradigm of complexity breaks the linearity and expands the meaning of Systematization of Nursing Care, supporting a conceptualization of new entities and objectives, moving away from reductionism in work practice.

Liaison nurse competences at hospital discharge.

Objective: To identify the liaison nurse competences at hospital discharge in the light of Strengths-Based Nursing Care theoretical reference.

Method: Descriptive and qualitative study, developed at the province of Quebéc-Canada, with 23 liaison nurses. The data were collected from March to July 2016, by a semi-structured questionnaire via Survey Monkey® electronic platform and analyzed through the content analysis, supported by software Qualitativa Data Analysis Miner.

The role of nurses in the integration of care for people with chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Objective: To describe the role of nurses in the integration of care for people with chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Method: This was an integrated single-case study conducted with care coordinators and nurses, purposefully selected, with interviews, documentary analysis and computerized files as sources of evidence. Categorical analysis was used based on data organization using MAXQDA® software, version 2018.

Innovative actions developed by nurses in primary health care.

Objectives: to understand the work process dimensions related to innovative actions developed by nurses in Primary Health Care.

Methods: qualitative, descriptive study, developed in Primary Health Care in a city in the Southern Region of Brazil. Seventy-six nurses, who worked in management and assistance, participated in this study through semi-structured interviews.

Managerial competences of researchers from Nursing research groups.

Objective: to analyze the managerial competences of researchers from research groups linked to a Graduate Program in Nursing.

Method: a cross-sectional study with researchers from Nursing research groups, which analyzed the managerial competences by means of a Scale of Managerial Competences in Research Groups containing 50 items related to people management and research results (Factor 1) and resource provisioning and people management (Factor 2), with answers 4 and 5 considered as sufficient dexterity for each competence analyzed. For data analysis, logistic regression was used.

Contributions of the Simplified Competency Management Model to a Municipal Health Secretariat.

Objective: to present the contributions of the Simplified Competency Management Model in a municipal health secretariat.

Method: research of integrated mixed methods of exploratory-descriptive type. The model was applied in a southern Brazilian city, in the following stages: documentary, questionnaire, mapping of gaps and educational proposal.

Professional Nursing Communication Competence: Theoretical procedures for instrument development and pilot test.

Aims: To describe the theoretical procedures for the development of the Professional Nursing Communication Competence instrument, determine the content validity and describe the pilot test application.

Background: Measuring instruments must be developed in accordance with the context and communication process by adopting theoretical procedures based on competence structures to support quality patient-centred care and nursing management.

Methods: A methodological study was employed.

Primary Healthcare management strategies in socially vulnerable territories exposed to violence.

Objective: To identify management strategies used by the Family Health Strategy teams of a Basic Health Unit in organizing work in socially vulnerable territories exposed to violence.

Method: A single case study with a qualitative approach in a family health unit located in the southern region of Brazil. Data collection was conducted through individual interviews with 27 health professionals from August to September 2017 and a focus group with 18 participants in April 2018.

Essential management competencies of nurses: actions and interactions in the context of the Family Health Strategy.

Objective: to understand the meanings attributed by the Family Health Strategy (FHS) nurses to the management competencies essential to the performance of their actions.

Method: explanatory, qualitative study, whose methodological framework was based on Grounded Theory. A total of 12 Family Health Strategy nurses from a municipality in southern Brazil participated through semi-structured interviews, between December 2018 and February 2019.

Relationship between the implementation of primary nursing model and the reduction of missed nursing care.

Aims: To evaluate and predict the relationship between the implementation of the primary nursing model and the reduction of missed nursing care.

Background: Primary nursing can provide hospital leaders and nursing staff with guidance in implementing safe, patient-centred care, with responsibility and accountability during the nursing process. The implementation can be measured in terms of missed nursing care.

Organizational climate and teamwork at the Family Health Strategy.

Objective: to measure the organizational climate in the work of professionals from Family Health Strategy (FHS) teams.

Method: a cross-sectional study carried out with 458 professionals belonging to 72 FHS teams in a municipality in Southern Brazil. Data collection occurred between March and July of 2016 with self-application of the Team Climate Inventory (TCI).

Improving social skills in care management provided by nurses: intervention research.

Objective: to analyze the process of introducing an educational intervention for the improvement of social skills in care management provided by nurses.

Method: intervention research, according to its complexity, carried out in a South-Brazilian public university hospital. To identify learning needs, 11 nurses were interviewed and educational meetings were held with 20 participants, who evaluated with open-ended questions: what they would stop doing; what they would continue doing; and what they would start doing on the issues addressed.

Violence against women: historical trajectory of a care program (Curitiba - 1997-2014).

Objective: To analyze the historical trajectory and the contributions of the Programa de Atenção às Mulheres em Situação de Violência (Program of Care to Women Victims of Violence) of Curitiba.

Method: Research with documentary and local approach, inspired by the Dimension of Political History, to unveil power relations, political representations, symbols and discourses. Eighty-eight sources were used for the period 1997-2014.

The use of IRAMUTEQ software for data analysis in qualitative research.

Objective: To describe the use of IRAMUTEQ software in qualitative data analysis.

Method: A description for using a software program as a tool to support data processing in qualitative research, carried out in 2015. Data collection was done through interviews using a semi-structured script.

Teaching-learning tendencies and strategies used in the leadership development of nurses.

Objective: To identify the tendencies and teaching-learning strategies used for leadership development in the discipline Nursing Administration in higher education institutions in Brazil.

Method: Non-experimental, type survey, descriptive and exploratory, cross-sectional, with quantitative approach.

Results: The dialogued lecture strategy was cited as used by 241 (91%) professors, followed by research, by 237 (89%), and discussion or group work, by 221 (83%).

Innovation in nursing health care practice: expansion of access in primary health care.

Objective:: analyze the reorganization of the health care practice of nurses as an innovative strategy for expansion of access in primary care.

Method:: qualitative and quantitative study, which interviewed 32 management and care nurses and collected documentary data from public reports of production of nursing consultations from 2010 to 2014, in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data processing for textual analysis was performed by IRAMUTEQ software; for simple descriptive statistical analysis, the program Excel 2013 was used.

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Clinical Competence Questionnaire for use in Brazil.

Objective: translating and transculturally adapting the Clinical Competence Questionnaire to Brazilian senior undergraduate Nursing students, as well as measuring psychometric properties of the questionnaire.

Method: a methodological study carried out in six steps: translation of the Clinical Competence Questionnaire instrument, consensus of the translations, back-translation, analysis by an expert committee, pre-testing and then presentation of the cross-cultural adaptation process to the developers. Psychometric properties were measured using Cronbach's alpha, intraclass correlation coefficient and content validity index.

Translation and adaptation of the Competencias Esenciales en Salud Pública para los recursos humanos en salud.

Objective:: to perform the translation and cultural adaptation of the document named Marco Regional de Competencias Esenciales en Salud Pública para los Recursos Humanos en Salud de la Región de las Américas (Regional Framework of Core Competencies in Public Health for Health Human Resources in the Region of Americas) from Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese.

Method:: a methodological study comprising the following phases: authorization for translation; initial translation; synthesis of translations and consensus; back-translation and formation of an expert committee.

Result:: in the translation of domain names, there was no difference in 66.

Integrality of care: challenges for the nurse practice.

Objective: to understand the role of the nurse in the collegiate management model of a teaching hospital, in the integrality of care perspective.

Method: a single case study with multiple units of analysis, with the theoretical proposition "integrality of care is a result of the care offered to the user by multiple professionals, including the nurse". Data were obtained in a functional unit of a teaching hospital through interviews with 13 nurses in a non-participant observation and document analysis.