Knowledge of the nursing team about cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation: mixed methods studies.

Objective: To analyze the knowledge and perceptions of the nursing team about arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adults before and after in situ simulation in emergency care.

Method: A sequential explanatory mixed methods study conducted in an Emergency Care Unit. Quantitative data were obtained through pre- and post-simulation questionnaire answered by 21 professionals and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Availability of residents and preceptors for interprofessional practices: mixed methods study.

Background: (1) The level of availability influences hospital interprofessional practices.

Background: (2)  Difficulties in interprofessional communication impede collaborative practices.

Background: (3)  There is resistance to the adoption of interprofessional practices related to education.

Humanized care in the Intensive Care Unit: discourse of Angolan nursing professionals.

Objectives: to analyze the perception of nursing professionals in an intensive care unit in Angola about humanized care and identify resources necessary for its implementation.

Methods: a qualitative, descriptive study conducted with 15 professionals in June-October/2020 in intensive care unit in Angola. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews; analysis based on the collective subject discourse technique.

Reorganization of nursing work in an intensive care unit during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To describe the reorganization of nursing work in an intensive care unit of a public hospital due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: Report of the experience from February to April 2020, about the reorganization of a unit.

Results: The description of the experience was divided into four moments: Definition of the cohort isolation; Reorganization of the intensive care units as General and Respiratory; Health care teams and work shifts; and Wearing and removing protective clothing by the teams.

Nursing Activities Score: trajectory of the instrument from paper to cloud in a university hospital.

Objective: To report the process of organization and construction of an information technology structure named Nursing Activities Score (NAS) Cloud Technology®.

Method: This project was based on the life cycle theory and has enabled the development of technological production through software engineering.

Results: The NAS Cloud Technology® was developed for remote and collaborative access on a website hosted by Google Sites® and protected in a business environment by the certified security and data protection devices Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

Medical device-related pressure injuries in critical patients: prevalence and associated factors.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical device-related pressure injuries in critical patients and analyze the associated factors.

Method: Epidemiological, cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic, clinical and medical device data were collected.

Medical device-related pressure injury prevention in critically ill patients: nursing care.

Objectives: to know the care implemented by the nursing team to prevent medical device-related pressure injuries in critically ill patients.

Methods: this is a qualitative research conducted with 15 nursing professionals from Intensive Care Unit. Sampling was carried out by theoretical saturation.

Analyzing the operational conditions of crash carts in clinical and surgical hospitalization units.

Objective: To evaluate the operational conditions of crash carts in all clinical and surgical hospitalization units of public hospitals in a region in Southern Brazil.

Method: Quantitative, cross-sectional study to evaluate crash carts in adult clinical and surgical hospitalization units. The data were collected through a checklist containing 16 continuous variables.

Social representations of comfort for patients' family members in palliative care in intensive care.

Objective: To know the social representations of comfort for patients' family members in palliative care in intensive care.

Method: Descriptive, qualitative study, theoretical framework adopted was Social Representations. 30 family members of patients admitted to an intensive care unit in palliative care participated.

Work environment of hospital nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Aim: To investigate the nurses' work environment in university hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenging times for nurses worldwide. In Brazil, as well as in several countries, nurses are working hard in hospital settings caring for patients infected with the virus, sometimes with unfavourable work environment conditions.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge of nursing freshman professors in medium-level technical education.

Objectives: to analyze the practice and construction processes of Pedagogical Content Knowledge of freshman professors, in secondary education in nursing.

Methods: a collective case study with a qualitative approach. Data collection with biographical interview, non-participant observation of sessions and group interview.

Psychiatric nursing and mental health teaching in relation to Brazilian curriculum.

Objectives: to know the scientific production on psychiatric nursing and mental health teaching in relation to Brazilian nursing curriculum.

Methods: an Integrative Literature Review with no temporal delineation, whose data collection took place in ten Brazilian and international databases, adding to the total 35 objects of analysis.

Results: a priori categories were adopted, consisting of the psychiatric nursing and mental health teaching in Brazil according to the 1923, 1949, 1962, 1972, 1994 and 2001 nursing curriculum, presented in the light of the dimensions: thought model; places of practice; methods or contents used; and profile or skills of the student.

Pedagogical preparation of nursing professors for professional secondary technical education.

Objective: To understand how the nursing professor pedagogically prepares for teaching in professional secondary technical education in the light of the Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Lee S. Shulman.

Method: This is a qualitative and descriptive study.

[Teaching in higher education in nursing: an integrative literature review].

Objective: To analyze the knowledge produced about teaching in higher education in nursing.

Method: Integrative literature review of full articles available on the LILACS, SciELO, BDENF and ERIC databases, through the descriptors "nursing faculty"and "practices of nursing faculty" and keywords "Teaching in nursing" or "Education in nursing"and "Nursing professors" and "Teaching knowledge" in Portuguese, English or Spanish, published from January 2008 to November 2013.

Results: 31 articles were identified.

[A creative and sensitive way to research].

This experience report describes the application of Creative Sensitive Method in a qualitative exploratory-descriptive research. Its theoretical foundation and the way this method was applied objectively presented through the following stages: introduction, production, presentation, discussion and evaluation. Finally, one can argue that the method, among others pathways, is a good alternative methodology for generating data in collective spaces for application in qualitative research related to nursing or others health contexts.

[Blood transfusion receivers' perception of the transfusion process].

Qualitative research, descriptive exploratory, aimed to know the perception of blood transfusion recipients as to the process. The research was carried out at a blood bank in a city in southern Brazil, and the data were analyzed using the Collective Subject Discourse. Were interviewed using a semistructured instrument, eleven patients, men and women between 30 and 95 years, post-surgical recovery of cardiac surgery, underwent blood transfusion.

[Experiences and feelings of nursing professionals in caring of the dead patient].

This study aimed to understand the experiences and feelings of ten professional nurses related to the dead patient, in a private hospital of the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. We used a qualitative approach, descriptive, exploratory, with data collected in July 2009, through interviews with semi-structured questionnaire. The results were grouped into the categories: feelings about the patient's death, reactions to the death and preparing the patient's body.

[Teaching strategies of nursing care: a look on pedagogical trends].

To determine the teaching strategies adequate for the contents and concepts imbricated in care is a challenge for nursing educators. This qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study aimed to know the strategies applied to teach nursing care used by ten nurses, professors of the Nursing Department in a University in the metropolitan area of the city of Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The information was collected through the Focal Group technique, from June 2004 to March 2005.