Potentialities and difficulties in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To know the potentialities and difficulties in Nursing teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Rio Grande do Sul (RS).

Method: Cross-sectional study carried out with coordinators of 48 undergraduate Nursing courses in the state of RS, Brazil, between October 2020 and January 2021, using an electronic questionnaire sent to participants by email. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Assessment of the accuracy of the CALCULATE scale for pressure injury in critically ill patients.

Introduction: Pressure injury is damage to the skin and underlying soft tissue that occurs in response to intense and/or prolonged skin pressure. The Braden scale is the most used in health services to assess pressure injury. However, this scale was not specifically developed for critically ill patients.

Performance of nurses/nursing team in the dispensing of materials for users of home care services.

Objective: To contextualize the performance of nurses/nursing team in the dispensing of materials to assist users in home visits, in primary care.

Methods: Dialectical qualitative study conducted between March and April 2018 in which 24 nurses from primary health care units in the Gloria/Cruzeiro/Cristal District of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, completed the self-administered questionnaire, whose data were treated by thematic content analysis. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee.

Perception of users on self-care of lower leg ulcers.

Objective: To know the perception of users on self-care of ulcers in the lower limbs.

Method: This is a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study conducted with 10 users registered in the complementary programme of a wound care clinic in Canoas, RS, Brazil. Data were collected using information from the medical records of the users and semi-structured interviews conducted between October and November 2016.

Teaching and learning nursing management in the hospital context: an approach in the light of Pichon-Rivière.

Objective: Analyze the articulation of students, professors (supervisors of the undergraduate practicum) and nursing professionals in teaching and learning nursing management at graduation in a public university hospital.

Method: This is a study of qualitative approach, anchored in the operative group reference of Pichon-Rivière. Data collection was held between October 2013 and September 2014 and consisted of a self-administered questionnaire, participant observation and focus group.

[Offshore work and the work of nurses on board: an integrative review].

Objective: To know the production of theoretical approaches on issues related to offshore work and the work of offshore nurses.

Method: Integrative literature review conducted in the databases of LILACS, BDENF, MEDLINE, SciELO and Index PSI.

Results: We selected 33 studies published in national and international journals between 1997 and 2014.

[Autonomy and the work of the nurse].

This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study that aimed to describe nurses'perceptions on the autonomy they hold in the practice they work in. Ten nurses working in the hospital or primary care centers participated in the study. A semistructured interview was used to gather data.

[Search by specialized training in occupational health nursing by nurses].

This article examines and discusses the search for specialized formation in Occupational Health Nursing for nurses. This is an exploratory descriptive qualitative study whose data were analyzed using content analysis. Data collection took place in May, 2010 with nine students from a specialization course that agreed to participate.

[National curriculum guidelines: perceptions of academics about their training in nursing].

The objective was to study the perceptions of nursing students about their education considering the National Curriculum Guidelines. This is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, data were collected in March 2007 through semistructured interviews with ten senior students of the undergraduate course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and all study participants signed an Informed Consent. The data were analyzed using content analysis.

[Violence and health professionals in primary health care].

The professionals who work on primary health care are affected by violence as they deal with very diverse patients. This exploratory descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, aimed at determining the situations in which primary health care professionals suffer aggressions. Data were collected in 2007, and included all members of a primary health care unit.