Patient safety culture and incidents recorded during nursing shift changes in intensive care units.

Objective: To analyze the association of patient safety culture perceived by nursing professionals with incidents recorded during nursing shifts in intensive care units.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study that investigated patient safety culture measured by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture instrument. Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, Student's t-test and multiple linear regression models were analyzed considering a significance level of 5%.

Humanization of care for adult ICU patients: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to review and map data from studies on the humanization of care in intensive care units based on a conceptual framework.

Introduction: The critical context of adult patients in intensive care units directs the focus on clinical medical interventions, drawing attention away from the humanization of care. Rethinking intensive care is imperative and the humanization of care is an absolute priority.

Validity of the Modified Dyspnea Index for the French-Canadian Population.

Background And Purpose: Multidimensional tools could evaluate the dyspnea of patients with chronic lung disease. The aim was to validate the use of the French-Canadian version of the modified dyspnea index (MDI) among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and interstitial lung disease (ILD).

Methods: The Spearman test analyzed the convergent validation of the MDI with pulmonary function tests (PFTs), New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification, the Modified Borg Scale, the Veterans Specific Activity Questionnaire (VSAQ), physical capacity, physical activity (Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire [GSLTPAQ]), and quality of life (SF-12).

Nursing Activities Score and the cost of nursing care required and available.

Objective: To estimate the cost of nursing care required and available through the use of the Nursing Activities Score.

Method: Quantitative study, direct costing of nursing care required and available in the Intensive Care Units. Data collection included variables of the patients, nursing professionals and nursing workload measured by the Nursing Activities Score.

Aging as a predictor of nursing workload in Intensive Care Unit: results from a Brazilian Sample.

Objective: Verify if aging is an independent predictor of NW in ICU, according to age groups, and its predictive value as a determinant of NW in ICU.

Methods: Study was conducted from 2012 to 2016. A convenience sample composed by patients (age ≥ 18) admitted to nine ICU belonging to a Brazilian hospital, was analyzed.

Nursing practice environment and work satisfaction in critical units.

Objective:: to analyze the association between the environment of nursing practices and work satisfaction in Intensive Care Units (ICU).

Method:: a cross-sectional study was performed in eight adult ICUs of a public university hospital between 2012 and 2015. The Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R), in their short forms, and the Index of Work Satisfaction (IWS) were applied to investigate the environment of nursing practices and work satisfaction, respectively.

Factors associated with the occurrence of adverse events in critical elderly patients.

Objective:: to identify the factors associated with the occurrence of adverse events in critical elderly patients admitted to intensive care unit according to demographic and clinical characteristics.

Method:: a retrospective cohort study was conducted in nine units of a teaching hospital. Data were collected from medical records and from monitoring of nursing shift change.

Patient safety in Intensive Care Units: development of a research project.

Objective: To describe our experience in the many processes involved in the development of a Project on Research into Intensive Care Unit Patient Safety.

Method: Mixed design study: historic cohort study of the collection of data on patients and on adverse events/incidents and transversal design on the collection of data on a nursing team. The data were collected over a period of 90 days in 2012 at the Instituto Central do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina of the Universidade de São Paulo (ICHC-FMUSP)and the University Hospital of the Universidade de São Paulo HU-USP).

Stress, coping and burnout among Intensive Care Unit nursing staff: associated factors.

Objective To investigate emotional stress, coping and burnout among nursing staff and their association with biosocial factors and characteristics of work in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Method This was a cross-sectional study, conducted in eight ICUs at a teaching hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in October 2012. Biosocial data and information about the professionals' work was gathered, and they were given the Scale of Occupational Stress, Scale of Occupational Coping, List of Signs and Symptoms of Stress and the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

Nursing workload: is it a predictor of healthcare associated infection in intensive care unit?

Objective To analyze the influence of nursing workload on the occurrence of healthcare associated infection (HAI) in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to type of treatment. Method Retrospective cohort study developed in nine ICUs in São Paulo, Brazil, from September to December 2012. Nursing workload was measured by the Nursing Activities Score (NAS).

Pattern of nursing interventions performed on trauma victims according to the Nursing Activities Score.

Objective To identify the pattern of nursing interventions performed on trauma victims in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method Prospective study performed in the ICU of a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Nursing interventions were identified using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS).

Gait profile score and movement analysis profile in patients with Parkinson's disease during concurrent cognitive load.

Background: Gait disorders are common in individuals with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and the concurrent performance of motor and cognitive tasks can have marked effects on gait. The Gait Profile Score (GPS) and the Movement Analysis Profile (MAP) were developed in order to summarize the data of kinematics and facilitate understanding of the results of gait analysis.

Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of the GPS and MAP in the quantification of changes in gait during a concurrent cognitive load while walking in adults with and without PD.

[Nursing allocation and adverse events/incidents in intensive care units].

Patient safety is a challenge for the quality in health care system. This study aimed to analyze the appropriateness of the allocation of nursing staff according to the hours of care required by patients and to identify the relationship between this allocation and adverse events/incidents (EA/I). This research was observational, descriptive and prospective, developed in Clinics ICU located in the 4th floor and 6th floor at a university hospital, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 01/11/07 to 10/12/07, with 46 patients.

Use of the Gait Deviation Index and spatiotemporal variables for the assessment of dual task interference paradigm.

Three-dimensional gait analysis (3DGA) is an important element in the quantitative evaluation of gait in subjects with Parkinson's disease (PD). Indexes, such as the Gait Deviation Index (GDI), have recently been proposed as a summary measure of gait. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the GDI and spatiotemporal variables in the quantification of changes in gait during a dual-task (DT) exercise.

Nursing workload in neurological intensive care units: cross-sectional study.

Background: Nursing workload has been associated with quality of patient care. Thus, it is important to measure nursing workload in neurological intensive care units (neuro-ICUs).

Objective: The aims of the study were to assess nursing workload in neuro-ICUs and identify independent factors associated with nursing workload.

Neuroglobin is up-regulated in the cerebellum of pups exposed to maternal epileptic seizures.

To evaluate a potential insult in the cerebellum of pups exposed to maternal epileptic seizures during intrauterine life, female rats were subjected to pilocarpine-induced epilepsy. Pups from different litters were sacrificed at 1, 3, 7 and 14 post-natal days (PN) and neuroglobin (Ngb) and gliosis were analyzed in the cerebellum by Western blotting (WB) and RT-PCR. (14)C-l-leucine-[(14)C-Leu] incorporation was used to analyze protein synthesis at PN1.

Seizures during pregnancy modify the development of hippocampal interneurons of the offspring.

We investigated the effect of epileptic seizures during pregnancy on hippocampal expression of calcium-binding proteins in the offspring. Female Wistar rats were submitted to the pilocarpine model and mated during the chronic period. Seizure frequency was monitored over the entire pregnancy.

[Family Health Program: the experience of a multiprofessional team].

Objective: The Family Health Program proposes a new dynamics for the structuring of health service, as well as for its relationship with the community in its different levels of care. The aim of the present study was to analyze the significance of teamwork for professionals working in the Family Health Program.

Methods: The study was carried out in the city of Conchas, Southeastern Brazil, in 2004.