Publications by authors named "Debora Feijo Villas Boas Vieira"
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- The study aimed to determine how common adverse events are among critically ill patients in an intensive care unit and how much care they require.
- Conducted from January to March 2020, it analyzed incidents like pressure injuries, accidental extubation, and healthcare-associated infections, using a Nursing Activities Score to measure care hours provided.
- Results showed that over half of the 88 patients experienced adverse events, linked to increased care needs, severity of conditions, and longer hospital stays, indicating a critical shortage of nursing staff that could impact patient safety.
Objective: to identify risk factors for falls in hospitalized adult patients.
Methods: a matched case-control study (one control for each case). A quantitative study conducted in clinical and surgical units of a teaching hospital in Southern Brazil.
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of burnout in intensivist doctors working in adult, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in five Brazilian capitals.
Methods: Descriptive epidemiological study with a random sample stratified by conglomerate with 180 intensivist doctors from five capitals representing the Brazilian geographic regions: Porto Alegre (RS), Sao Paulo (SP), Salvador (BA), Goiania (GO) and Belem (PA). A self-administered questionnaire examining sociodemographic data and the level of burnout was evaluated through the Maslach Burnout Inventory.
Objective: this study aimed to using the Nursing Activities Score to assess nursing workload in a coronary care unit, to assess the distribution of workload between shifts, and to compare the current staff of the care unit with that recommended by the instrument.
Method: this was a longitudinal study, conducted in a teaching hospital in Southern Brazil, between April to June 2012.
Results: A total of 604 NAS measures were obtained from the 61 patients included.
Objective: Identifying risk factors for the occurrence of falls in hospitalized adult patients.
Method: Integrative review carried out in the databases of LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE and Web of Science, including articles published between 1989 and 2012.
Results: Seventy-one articles were included in the final sample.
The aim of this work was to sensitize the nurses of the an intensive care unit, through continued education, to the importance of planning the care of the critical clients in partnership with them and their families. By doing so we meant to amplify the humanization and to bring Public Health System prerogatives closer to nursing practice. The nurses attended a workshop and from their reports emerged some categories of analysis that at some moments show resistance to modify the present practice and at other moments, the desire to transform the reality they live in, sensitizing them to the thematic.
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