Successful strategies for preventing and controlling violence against people with intellectual disabilities: a scoping review.

Background: Violence against people with intellectual disabilities is unfortunately a reality all over the world, as they are one of the populations most vulnerable to various forms of aggression. Assertive prevention and control measures are crucial to tackle and reduce this problem. The aim of this study was to map and summarize the main measures for preventing and controlling domestic violence against people with intellectual disabilities.

Quality of life associated with nursing professionals' individual resources and work.

Objectives: to assess the physical and mental components of nursing professionals' quality of life and associate them with individual, health and work characteristics.

Methods: cross-sectional research, with nursing professionals from a university hospital in São Paulo. Own questionnaire and validated instruments were applied.

Oral candidiasis in liver transplant patients: species identification and antifungal susceptibility profile.

Objective: This study aimed to verify oral candidiasis, identify the causative species, and investigate the antifungal susceptibility of yeasts isolated from liver transplant patients.

Methods: A descriptive analysis of 97 patients who underwent liver transplantation was conducted at a hospital. Two clinical examinations (Collections A and B) of the oral cavity were performed.

Nursing rights in comics: educational technological innovation report.

Objectives: to report an educational technology construction on nursing professionals' rights.

Methods: an experience report on educational technology construction during the crediting of university extension hours in an undergraduate nursing course at a Brazilian public university, between March and June 2023. The Deming cycle was used as a procedural method.

Epidemiological differences, clinical aspects, and short-term prognosis of patients with healthcare-associated and community-acquired infective endocarditis.

Background: The prevalence of healthcare-associated infective endocarditis in Brazil is poorly known.

Aim: To analyze the epidemiological, clinical and microbiological characteristics, and the prognosis of healthcare-associated infective endocarditis (HAIE) compared with community-acquired infective endocarditis (CIE) and identify the associated factors with hospital mortality.

Method: A historical cohort study was carried out, with a data collection period from January 2009 to December 2019 at the .

Sepsis and COVID-19: outcomes in young adults in intensive care.

Objective: to verify sepsis incidence among young adults admitted to intensive care due to COVID-19 and to analyze its association with demographic, clinical and outcome variables.

Methods: a quantitative, longitudinal, retrospective and analytical study, consisting of 58 adults aged 20 to 40 years in intensive care for SARS-CoV-2. It was carried out in a university hospital, from March 2020 to December 2021, with data collected from electronic medical records.

Advanced Practice Nursing: "Training" Pillar in Supporting the Proposal in Brazil.

Objectives: to present the pillars that support what has been called Advanced Practice Nursing and discuss the necessary training for its implementation.

Methods: elements contained in assessment documents for graduate programs proposals, reports of presentations by international professors in countries and selected scientific publications were gathered to compose the argument.

Results: practice/competency (adds broad and in-depth knowledge about health processes and scientific evidence, clinical reasoning and clinical skills for therapeutic indications); 3) professional regulation (corresponding legislation and monitoring); and 4) funding (broad training and professional practice policy).

Factors associated with death due to severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by influenza: Brazilian population study.

Introduction: Influenza infection is characterized by acute viral infection of high transmissibility. Worsening of the case can lead to the need for hospitalization, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and even death.

Method: This is a cross-sectional population-based study that used secondary database from the Brazilian Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System.

Prognosis of patients with heart disease with acute kidney injury undergoing dialysis treatment.

Objectives: to verify the relationship of cardiovascular diseases with acute kidney injury and assess the prognosis of patients in renal replacement therapy.

Methods: a cohort study, carried out in a public hospital specialized in cardiology. Treatment, comorbidities, duration of treatment, laboratory tests, discharge and deaths were analyzed.

Work absences among hospital cleaning staff during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Introduction: Absenteeism justified by sick leaves are valuable indicators of workers' health conditions.

Objectives: To analyze hospital cleaning staff sick leaves during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included employees who presented a medical sick leave certificate justifying at least 1 missed day of work during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contrast-induced acute kidney injury in patients submitted to coronary angioplasty: prospective cohort.

Objective: To analyze the incidence, risk factors, and associations of clinical outcomes for contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) after coronary angioplasty.

Method: Prospective cohort of 182 patients followed for three months after undergoing angioplasty, from July 2020 to June 2021. The analyzed variables were sociodemographic, clinical, and those related to the procedure.

BM-MSC-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEV) from trained animals presented nephroprotective potential in unilateralureteral obstruction model.

Background: The efficacy of bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells (BM-MSC) and its extracellular vesicles has been demonstrated for a broad spectrum of indications, including kidney diseases. However, BM-MSC donor characteristics and their potential are not usually considered. Therefore, the present work aims to evaluate the nephroprotective capacity of sEV secreted by BM-MSC from trained rats inunilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) model.

Urinary tract infection in patients with chronic kidney disease under conservative treatment.

Objectives: to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors for urinary tract infection in patients with chronic kidney disease under conservative treatment and identify the microorganisms isolated in the urine of these patients and the staging of chronic kidney disease.

Methods: a cross-sectional, analytical study carried out at the Conservative Treatment Outpatient Clinic of a university hospital in the city of São Paulo.

Results: the prevalence of urinary tract infection is 22%.

Nurses' stress and resilience before and after evaluation for hospital accreditation.

Objectives: to analyze and compare levels of stress and resilience in nurses before and after the assessment for maintenance of the Hospital Accreditation Certification.

Methods: quantitative, observational, and longitudinal research, with 53 nurses from a philanthropic hospital, in the Rio Grande do Sul. Data collected in two stages, March, and July 2019, before the assessment visit and 60 days after, using the Bianchi Stress Scale and Resilience Scale.

Infectious events in kidney transplant recipients from deceased expanded criteria donors: a prospective cohort.

Objective: Analyze risk factors for infection in kidney transplant recipients from deceased expanded criteria donors (DECD) in the first two years of follow-up.

Method: This is a prospective cohort study with 466 patients from DECD who underwent kidney transplantation in 2015 and 2016 in Brazil. A total of 551 events were recorded.

Acute kidney injury caused by venomous animals: inflammatory mechanisms.

Either bites or stings of venomous animals comprise relevant public health problems in tropical countries. Acute kidney injury (AKI) induced by animal toxins is related to worse prognostic and outcomes. Being one the most important pathways to induce AKI following envenoming due to animal toxins, inflammation is an essential biological response that eliminates pathogenic bacteria and repairs tissue after injury.

Religious/spiritual experiences, quality of life and satisfaction with life of hospitalized octogenarians.

Objectives: to assess quality of life (QoL) and satisfaction with life (SWL) indices and verify whether the frequency of religious and spiritual experiences is associated with QoL and SWL in hospitalized octogenarians.

Method: this is a cross-sectional study, with 128 octogenarians. World Health Organization QoL instruments and Scales applied: Daily Spiritual Experience (DSES) and Satisfaction With Life (SWLS).

Risk factors for colonization and infection by resistant microorganisms in kidney transplant recipients.

Objectives: to assess the prevalence of colonization and infection by multidrug-resistant bacteria in patients undergoing kidney transplantation and identify the rate of infection, morbidity and mortality and associated risk factors.

Methods: a prospective cohort of 200 randomly included kidney transplant recipients. Epidemiological surveillance of the studied microorganisms was carried out in the first 24 hours and 7 days after transplantation.

Factors associated with urinary tract infection in a Nursing Home.

Objective: to analyze the factors associated with urinary tract infection occurrence in institutionalized elderly.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, quantitative study with 116 elderly people from a Nursing Home. Urinary tract infection diagnosis was carried out through urine culture and clinical assessment.

Professor habilitation: the recognition of a trajectory committed to teaching, research, and extension.

Objective: to describe faculty member training as a strategy for the development of leaders and the promotion of continuous academic progress in teaching, research, and extension.

Method: this reflection article presents a history of the highest academic degree obtained in Brazil, describing the characteristics of the competitions and highlighting aspects and activities that show, nowadays, intellectual and scientific maturation.

Results: aspiring professors submit their academic trajectory to analysis and judgment by peers, based on strict assessment criteria, to receive a professor habilitation.