Pressure wounds in a cohort of critical patients: incidence and associated factors.

Aim: To assess the incidence and factors associated with pressure wounds in patients of a Brazilian clinical and surgical Intensive Care Center (composed of three Intensive Care Units).

Method: Cohort monitored for clinical and therapeutic variables in an Intensive Care Center. Cox's Multiple Regression was employed, establishing the number of days until the first pressure injury as a time variable; the omnibus test was also performed.

Good practices for effective communication: the experience of the interdisciplinary round in orthopedic surgery.

Objective: To report the experience of interdisciplinary round in care of patients with proximal femoral fractures hospitalized in a surgical unit.

Method: Report on the experience of clinical discussion shared by the multiprofessional team in a surgical hospitalization unit of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre referred to in orthopedics, from October 2017 to June 2018.

Results: Six steps were systematized sequenced to be followed during a weekly with time optimization and patient focus.

Predictors of better self-care in patients with heart failure after six months of follow-up home visits.

This study aimed to examine the predictors of better self-care behavior in patients with heart failure (HF) in a home visiting program. This is a longitudinal study nested in a randomized controlled trial (ISRCTN01213862) in which the home-based educational intervention consisted of a six-month followup that included four home visits by a nurse, interspersed with four telephone calls. The self-care score was measured at baseline and at six months using the Brazilian version of the European Heart Failure Self-Care Behaviour Scale.

Home visit improves knowledge, self-care and adhesion in heart failure: Randomized Clinical Trial HELEN-I.

Objective: To verify the effect of an educative nursing intervention composed of home visits and phone calls on patients' knowledge about the disease, self-care and adhesion to the treatment.

Methods: Randomized clinical trial with patients with recent hospitalization caused by decompensated heart failure. There were two groups: the intervention group, which has received four home visits and four phone calls to reinforce the guidelines during six months of follow up; and the control group, which has received conventional follow up with no visits or phone calls.