Competency assessment tools for infection preventionists: A scoping review.

Background: Infection prevention competencies are critical for successful job performance, career progression and robust performance of infection prevention and control programs.

Aim/objective: Identify competency assessment tools available to infection preventionists and describe their characteristics, validation processes and reliability.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted on five databases and grey literature from 1999 to 2022.

Step-by-step approach to reopening a Brazilian higher education institution during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: to describe the experience of reopening a Brazilian higher education institution during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: experience report of a step-by-set approach to reopening a nursing higher education institution in São Paulo, Brazil, from May 2020 to May 2021.

Results: the plan was created and operated by a group including students, professors, and technical-administrative workers.

Mobile application of the Terminology Subset for Coping with Domestic Violence Against Children.

Objective: to describe the development of a mobile application for the International Classification Terminology Subset for Nursing Practice for Coping with Domestic Violence Against Children.

Methods: an applied research of technological development, based on the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation model and on the terminological subset based on the Theory of Nursing Praxis Intervention in Collective Health framework.

Results: the application is divided into: 1) "Definition": characterizes the phenomenon of violence against children; 2) "Assistance": electronic record of nursing care; 3) "Diagnosis Consultation"; 4) "Intervention Consultation": nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions related to children and their families, subdivided into Strengthening and Weariness group.

Resistance Training Safety during and after the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak: Practical Recommendations.

In December of 2019, there was an outbreak of a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) in China. The virus rapidly spread into the whole world causing an unprecedented pandemic and forcing governments to impose a global quarantine, entering an extreme unknown situation. The organizational consequences of quarantine/isolation are absence of organized training and competition, lack of communication among athletes and coaches, inability to move freely, lack of adequate sunlight exposure, and inappropriate training conditions.

Social incentives for adherence to tuberculosis treatment.

Objective: To analyze the influence of social incentives for adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment.

Method: Qualitative study, in which 26 primary health care professionals of São Paulo were interviewed in 2015.Their testimonies were submitted to the speech analysis technique.

Clinical and epidemiological teaching of dengue through simulated practice.

Objective: to describe the experience of clinical teaching on dengue and the practice of epidemiological surveillance using problematization methodology.

Method: report of experience on educational activity with undergraduate nursing students, held in March 2016, at a public university in the city of São Paulo, conceived in four stages: dialogic lecture, active search of Aedes aegypti, case study and simulation of nursing consultation to individuals with dengue.

Results: The activity allowed to retrieve previous knowledge about the disease, respond to exercises that addressed different clinical situations and epidemiological surveillance, including in situ evaluation of possible mosquito outbreaks, and discuss the need to expand prevention and health of the individual and the community, the impact of the media in the dissemination of cases and the coping difficulties experienced in the different levels of attention.

[Academia and the social division of nursing work in the Government sector: sinking or surpassing?].

This paper is based on the assumption that the widening gap between manual labor and intellectual tasks tends to weaken the inherent potential of the labor force. Its purpose is to analyze current trends in the division of labor in the Brazilian nursing sector. This is exemplified by the findings of recent surveys conducted by graduate students who studied various aspects of the work processes involved in healthcare, education and research through a qualitative meta-analysis.

Proposal to construct the operational base of the educative work process in collective health.

This study aimed to construct the operational base of the educative work in health from a Marxist perspective. Reports of nursing experiences in the basic health services, published between 1988-2003, served as empirical base. The object was captured from: the participants; the action agents; the objective; health and education conceptions; and the generating necessity.