Publications by authors named "Betina Horner Schlindwein Meirelles"

Objectives: to understand the ethical problems experienced by primary health care nurses in using nursing teleconsultations for people living with the human immunodeficiency virus during the coronavirus pandemic.

Methods: qualitative research, anchored in Constructivist Grounded Theory. Data was collected between July and September 2020, with 17 participants.

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Objective: to analyze the use of the Practical Approach to Care Kit as a technology adopted in nurses' clinical practice for HIV management in Primary Health Care.

Method: an exploratory and descriptive research study anchored in the methodological framework of the Constructivist Grounded Theory. The participants were defined through initial sampling, with 12 nurses, and theoretical sampling, with five managers, totaling 17 participants.

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Objective: To understand management practices in the care of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in primary health care in a Brazilian capital, in times of the new coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic.

Method: Qualitative research, anchored in the methodological-analytical framework of the grounded theory, constructivist aspect. Data were collected by using intensive online interviews with nurses from health centers and managers of the municipal health department.

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Aim: To understand the management actions for prevention and control of health care-associated infections (HAIs) performed by health professionals.

Background: Prevention of nosocomial infections has evidence-based practice at its essence, but not all institutions are successful in implementing prevention methodology.

Methods: Qualitative research with Grounded Theory methodological framework.

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Objectives: to verify the adherence to self-care activities among people with diabetes mellitus and its association with quality of care received in Primary Care.

Methods: a cross-sectional study with 329 people with diabetes assisted in Primary Care. Sociodemographic and self-care data were collected.

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Objective: To highlight the best leadership practices of nurses who contribute to hospital risk management.

Method: Single case study with two integrated units of analysis, with a qualitative approach. Data collected from April to November 2018, through focused interviews with nurse managers, non-participant observation and documentary research.

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Article Synopsis
  • Focus on enhancing clinical practice in nursing training through effective educational management by university faculty.
  • Methods included qualitative research with documentary analysis, interviews, and observation, analyzed using NVivo®10.
  • Findings revealed three key areas: characteristics of educational management actions, their connection to clinical practice, and the environments that foster these educational efforts.
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Objective: To identify the demands for the psychosocial care of vulnerable communities in the Vale do Itajaí, Santa Catarina Methods: Qualitative research, multiple case study, through narrative interviews with health professionals in three municipalities, from January to May 2018. The analysis of the narratives followed a formal analysis of the text, structural description of the content, analytical abstraction, analysis of knowledge, and contrastive comparison.

Results: The described categories were: Meanings of the demands for support before the flood; Meanings of the demands during the occurrence of the disaster; Meanings of demands after the flood: psychosocial care; Meanings of the demands for monitoring the territory after the disaster.

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Objective: To describe the scope and limitations of the main strategies of cooperation in health, adopted between 2005 and 2017, in the context of the triple border Brazil, Colombia and Peru.

Method: Single, explanatory, qualitative, integrated case study carried out in 2017, in the context of the triple Amazon border, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, in the city of Tabatinga, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Our sources of evidence were: documentary data; interviews with health managers of the State Health Secretariats of Amazonas and Municipal Health of Tabatinga, Municipal Health Council of Tabatinga and Consulate of Peru in Colombia; and direct observations in four health services of Tabatinga.

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Objective: To understand the care sharing for people living with HIV/AIDS, especially young adults, as well as the structuring of the line of care in the capital of Santa Catarina.

Method: Qualitative research, anchored by theory based on data collected in the Health Care Network of Florianópolis, totaling 19 participants distributed between two sample groups. The data collection and analysis were concomitant, with comparative analysis method.

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Objective: To identify the knowledge and self-care actions taken by nursing undergraduate students of a Federal University of the South of Brazil, against Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Method: Exploratory qualitative study, conducted 40 interviews with undergraduate students at the beginning and end of the course. The analysis was thematic, resulting in three categories.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study explores how nurses' clinical practice affects Primary Health Care, emphasizing the importance of trust between health professionals and the community.
  • Using qualitative research and Grounded Theory, data was collected from 18 nurses in Florianópolis over several months.
  • Findings reveal that effective clinical practices, including nursing protocols and standardized classifications, enhance problem-solving abilities and positively impact the health of patients in Primary Health Care.
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Objective: To understand care practices for people with Chronic Noncommunicable Disease, developed by Primary Health Care nurses in a municipality in southern Brazil.

Method: Qualitative study, developed through the Discourse of the Collective Subject. Twenty-three nurses from the Family Health Strategy participated.

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Objective: To understand the intervening factors in the process of reference and counter-reference of the individual with heart disease in the scenario of high complexity in the health care network.

Method: Research anchored in the Grounded Theory (Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados). It totaled 21 participants.

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Objective: Understanding the actions and interactions required for developing clinical nursing practice in Primary Health Care.

Method: A qualitative study anchored in the Grounded Theory. Data was collected between April and October 2016 with nurses divided into two sample groups.

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Objective:: To assess the prevention by primary health care providers of chronic complications of diabetes mellitus according to the complex thinking theoretical approach.

Method:: Evaluative research based on the complex thinking theoretical approach. The following techniques for data collection were used: interviews with 38 participants; observation in collective and individual appointments; and analysis of medical records of people with diabetes.

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Objective: to assess the health care Primary Health Care professionals provide to diabetes mellitus patients from the perspective of the Modelo de Atenção às Condições Crônicas.

Method: qualitative study, using the theoretical framework of Complex Thinking and the Modelo de Atenção às Condições Crônicas and the methodological framework of assessment research. To collect the data, 38 interviews were held with health professionals and managers; observation of the activities by the health teams; and analysis of 25 files of people who received this care.

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Objective: Understanding the factors that influence the reference and counter-reference process of people indicated/submitted to Myocardial Revascularization surgery in the Primary Health Care scenario.

Method: A qualitative research anchored in the Grounded Theory, totaling 41 participants subdivided into three groups (patients, health professionals and managers) in the Metropolitan and West Region of Santa Catarina.

Results: Two categories elucidate the intervening factors found, contrasting the potentialities and obstacles in (creating) the bond between people affected by cardiovascular diseases and primary health care for the reference process, highlighting weaknesses in the primary health care services provided, with failures in the counter-reference for people submitted to myocardial revascularization surgery.

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Objective: To know the opinions and satisfaction of nurses with the use of INICIARE, an instrument developed for assessment of nursing care needs in hospitalized patients. INICIARE is based on Virginia Henderson's conceptual model, and built up with indicators of Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) taxonomy.

Method: Exploratory qualitative study, using focus group technique for data collection.

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Objective: to identify the coping strategies of oncology services of nurses in highly complex hospital care before the person with cancer.

Method: it is a qualitative research, with 18 nurses in inpatient oncology units and/or outpatient chemotherapy in two cities in southern Brazil, sampled by a snowball and carrying out semi-structured interviews. Data were submitted to thematic analysis.

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Objective: to understand the strengths and weaknesses in the care network of people with HIV/AIDS in a referral center in the state of Santa Catarina-SC.

Method: participants were eight subjects and their care network, totaling 18 participants. Data were collected through interviews and examined by content analysis, theoretically supported by symbolic interaction.

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Objective: To understand the social representations of people with TB who discontinued treatment in a Program of Tuberculosis Control.

Method: a descriptive study of qualitative approach conducted in the city of Lima, Peru. Data were collected from October to November 2012, through semi-structured interviews with eight individuals and the method used was thematic content analysis.

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Objective: To analyze the strategies used by nurses to support the insertion of dialogic leadership in the hospital environment.

Methodology: Qualitative study, case study type. Twenty five nurses working in three hospitals in the city of Florianopolis, in the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil) participated in the study.

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This study aimed to understand the main conflicts experienced by nurses-leaders in the hospital environment, as well as the strategies adopted to face them.The study reflects a qualitative descriptive type approach, which was used in the case study as research strategy. The study included 25 nurses who worked in three hospitals in the city of Florianopolis, Santa Catarina.

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Objective: To identify the actions, undertaken by nurse managers in a risk management program, considered as best practice.

Method: A case study undertaken in a private hospital in the south of Brazil. A risk manager and nurse managers working in a risk management program participated in this study.

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