"We try to save lives and our own lives": nursing work in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To understand the implications of working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic for Nursing professionals.

Method: Qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study conducted in four hospitals in southern Brazil. A total of 349 records made by nurses and nursing technicians/assistants through an electronic form were selected and submitted to content analysis.

Daily work variability in falls prevention of hospitalized patients: nursing team's perception.

Background: The identification of safety incidents and establishment of systematic methodologies in health services to reduce risks and provide quality care was implemented by The World Health Organization. These safety incidents allowed the visualization of a vast panorama, ranging from preventable incidents to adverse events with catastrophic outcomes. In this scenario, the issue of fall(s) is inserted, which, despite being a preventable event, can lead to several consequences for the patient, family, and the healthcare system, being the second cause of death by accidental injury worldwide, this study aims to identify the variability inherent in the daily work in fall prevention, the strategies used by professionals to deal with it and the opportunities for improvement of the management of work-as-imagined.

Modeling of adult patient falls and the repercussions to Nursing as a second victim.

Objective: analyze the falls of adult hospitalized patients and their repercussions on the Nursing worker as the second victim.

Method: an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study conducted in two stages - identification of falls with moderate to severe damage and the modeling of falls using the software Functional Resonance Analysis Method; and analysis of the repercussions on the worker as the second victim by means of semi-structured interviews submitted to Content Analysis, with 21 Nursing workers.

Results: a total of 447 falls of adult patients were identified, 12 of which with moderate to severe damage, occurred in the absence of the companion, while using sleep inducing, hypotensive or muscle strength altering medications.

Costs of hospital admission authorizations due to falls among older people in the Brazilian National Health System, Brazil, 2000-2020: a descriptive study.

Objective: To describe the costs of hospital admission authorizations (AIHs) due to falls among older people within the Brazilian National Health System (SUS).

Methods: This was a descriptive cost analysis study, based on data from the SUS's Hospital Information System, related to AIH due to falls among older people (60 years and older), between 2000 to 2020. A descriptive analysis was performed and cost measurement was based on a macro-costing method.

Characterization of the adult patients' falling incidents in a university hospital.

Objective: To evaluate the occurrences and to characterize the falling incidents of adult patients hospitalized in clinical and surgical units of a university hospital in the southern region of the country, in the period from 2011 to 2014.

Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study, carried out from December 2016 to December 2017. The sample consisted of 1112 reports, covering all hospitalized patients who were notified with falls occurring in the studied period.

Analysis of managerial and healthcare indicators after nursing personnel upsizing.

Objective: analyze healthcare and managerial indicators after nursing personnel upsizing.

Method: a retrospective, descriptive study was conducted using data from computer systems of a university hospital in southern Brazil. Healthcare and managerial indicators related to the first half of 2013 and 2014 were statistically analyzed.