Assessment of spiritual care competencies of critical care health professionals: An integrative review.

Objective: The primary aim of the present study was to assess the competencies related to the spiritual care by nurses and health professionals who work in intensive care units, and how these competencies influence clinical practice. As a secondary objective, we have discussed the strengths, weaknesses and threats of incorporating and teaching these competencies among the included studies.

Method: An integrative review of studies published in English, Spanish and Portuguese was performed in the following databases: Embase, Web of Science, Medline/PubMed, PsycInfo, LILACS and Cochrane.

Factors associated with nurses' search for training in auriculotherapy: a national cross-sectional study.

Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic profile and highlight factors associated with nurses' search for training in auriculotherapy.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study, with national scope, with 1,154 nurses. The data was collected digitally from June 2021 to January 2022 through a sociodemographic and training characterization questionnaire.

Integrative and complementary practices in health, nurses' profile and care provided to people with hypertension: a mixed study design.

to analyze the profile of nurses regarding integrative and complementary practices in health (ICPH) and understand how they are used in the care of people with arterial hypertension. mixed-methods sequential explanatory design. The cross-sectional quantitative stage included 386 nurses who completed an online questionnaire addressing sociodemographic and professional information, training, and practice, with a descriptive and inferential analysis.

Reiki for promotion of health and sleep quality in hospital nursing professionals.

Objectives: to know the repercussions of a Reiki therapy intervention on the sleep quality of nursing professionals working in a general hospital.

Methods: a qualitative-quantitative study conducted with 16 professionals from the nursing team of a hospital in northwest Paraná, who participated in an intervention consisting of six weekly Reiki sessions. Data collected from September, 2019 to March, 2020 through semi-structured interviews and application of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index before and after the intervention.

Postgraduate nursing students' conceptions on scientific integrity and research ethics.

Objectives: to understand the conceptions of postgraduate Nursing students regarding integrity in scientific research.

Methods: a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study conducted in October 2020, with 40 students from a postgraduate program in Nursing from a public university in Southern Brazil. The interviews had an emphasis on scientific integrity and its importance for scientific research; they were conducted using synchronous communication tool and analyzed by textual discourse analysis.

[Skin cancer in rural workers: nursing knowledge and intervention].

Objective: To identify the exposure of rural workers to the sun's ultraviolet radiation and pesticides; to identify previous cases of skin cancer; and to implement clinical and communicative nursing actions among rural workers with a previous diagnosis of skin cancer.

Method: Observational-exploratory study conducted with rural workers exposed to ultraviolet radiation and pesticides in a rural area in the extreme south of Brazil. A clinical judgment and risk communication model properly adapted was used to develop interventions among workers with a previous history of skin cancer.

Casual dock work: profile of diseases and injuries and perception of influence on health.

The present study aimed to identify the profile of diseases and injuries that affect casual dock workers and identify casual dock workers' perceptions of positive and negative work influences on their health. This study consisted of two phases. The first phase was a quantitative study composed of a retrospective analysis, conducted with 953 medical records.

Risk perception and risk communication for training women apprentice welders: a challenge for public health nursing.

This research has aimed to identify the perceptions of women apprentice welders about physical, chemical, biological, and physiological risk factors to which they are exposed and evaluate the identification of health disorders self-reported for women apprentice welders before and after implementation of a nursing socioenvironmental intervention. A quantitative study was performed with 27 women apprentice welders (first phase) and before and after an intervention with 18 women (second phase) in Southern Brazil in 2011. The data were analysed using SPSS 19.

[Use of drugs by elderly in the community: proposal of nursing action].

Objective of this study was to identify the socio demographic profile and drug use in elderly enrolled in a health unit and to propose nursing actions through identification of diagnoses and prescriptions related, focused on the use of drugs, targeted to these elderly. This descriptive study was conducted in a family health unit, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with 97 elderly. For data collection it was used a structured form.

[Nursing care in the perspective of complexity for nursing professors].

The complex nursing care is essential for understanding the human being as unique and multidimensional. This study aimed at knowing what nursing care means to nurse-teachers in the perspective of complexity. It is a qualitative research, carried out with seven nurse-teachers of a nursing school from central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.