Prevalence and factors associated with symptoms of depression in family members of people hospitalized in the intensive care unit.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with depression in family members of people hospitalized in intensive care units.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 980 family members of patients admitted to the intensive care units of a large public hospital in the interior of Bahia. Depression was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire-8.

Interprofessional communication in an emergency care unit: a case study.

Objective: To map internal and external factors in an emergency care unit that interfere with interprofessional communicative practice.

Method: This is a single case study carried out in the emergency care unit of a general hospital. Data were collected through participant observation, document analysis, and semi-structured interviews, and were triangulated and subjected to thematic analysis, out of categories defined a priori, based on the SWOT matrix.

Factors inherent to the onset of urinary incontinence in the hospitalized elderly patients analyzed in the light of the Donabedian's triad.

Objective: To apprehend the factors related to the onset and/or worsening of urinary incontinence in the hospitalized elderly patient, considering the Donabedian's triad.

Method: This is a qualitative, descriptive study, conducted with nurses and nursing technicians from a public university hospital. Data were collected using the focus group technique; content analysis was used for treatment and analysis, with subsequent coding of the registration units in the software WebQDA, relating the corpus obtained with the Donabedian's pillars.

Evaluation of triage quality in the emergency department: a scoping review protocol.

The objective of this scoping review is to explore the existing literature on the evaluation of the quality of triage for patients of all ages and medical conditions in emergency departments (EDs).The question for this review is: How is triage in the ED evaluated? More specifically, we are interested in answering the following sub-questions.

Management of elderly people with Stroke: strategies based on action research.

Objective: To elaborate and implement, through an educational intervention with the nursing team of the Emergency Unit, strategies that contribute to the management of elderly people suspected/affected by Stroke.

Method: Action research with eighteen nursing professionals working in the Emergency Unit of a reference hospital. The data were collected through five pedagogical workshops and systematized through the thematic analysis.