[Notification and Learning System for Patient Safety (SiNASP): Current situation in Ferrol Primary Care.].

Objective: In 2013, the Galician Health Service (SERGAS) adapted the Patient Health Notification and Learning System (SiNASP) to health centres. Due to its novelty, it is necessary to know the state of use of this tool and its determinants. The objective of this work was to describe the knowledge of health professionals in Primary Health Care and reception of the (SiNASP), in the health centres where has been implemented in the district of Ferrol (A Coruña).

[New approach in the Screening Program for the early detection of cervical cancer in Galicia.].

Cervical cancer (CUC) is the fourth most common gynaecological malignancy worldwide, the second most common in low- and middle-income countries. The human papilloma virus (HPV) is the main cause of CUU and considered a necessary but not sufficient cause for its development. In Spain, Pap smear and HPV testing are the main screening strategies for UCC.

[Prevalence, impact on quality of life and variables associated with urinary incontinence in a hospitalization unit.].

To determine the prevalence of Urinary Incontinence (UI) in a hospitalization unit. METHODS: Descriptive cross-sectional study, with patients in a hospitalization unit in Ferrol. The prevalence, the type of UI, the UI assessment and the impact of UI on daily life were estimated with the questionnaires: IU-4 (by sex), the severity tool ICIQ-SF and the IIQ.

What do Galicia's nurses know about living wills?

Objective: To analyse the level of knowledge and attitudes concerning living wills of nurses working in 3 hospitals of Servizo Galego de Saúde (Spain).

Method: Descriptive, cross-sectional, multi-centre study. Stratified sampling was carried out with nurses from the University Hospital Complexes of Ourense, Ferrol and Vigo.

[Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for Pain Management During Labor].

Currently, epidural analgesia is considered the most used method for pain management during labor, but this technique could have side effects. There are non-pharmacological methods that can be used alternatively or in synergy with epidural analgesia, without adverse effects on maternal and fetal outcomes. These methods include transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).

[Prevention and detection of obstetric violence: A need in the Spanish delivery rooms?].

Introduction: The obstetric violence (OV) is the type of violence perpetrated against the pregnant woman through acts such as lack of respect to her autonomy and her freedom to decide. The increasing medicalization of the labour process, seems to be associated to this type of violence.

Objective: Our objective is to provide health professionals with the necessary knowledge to be able to inform their patients about their rights and recognize those situations that can imply violence during the care process.

[INMERSION IN HOT WATER: A NATURAL HELPER IN LABOUR].

Introduction: The pain during the birth process is the result of a pile of physiological, psychological and socio-cultural stimulus. In our society, epidural analgesia is the most common technique used in obstetrics to relieve this pain, despite not being harmless. However, there are other complementary techniques based on methods that have demonstrated analgesic effects and they benefit of lacking adverse effects either on the mother or on the fetus.

[NURSING CARE TO A PATIENT WITH INTRAVESICAL TREATMENT].

Introduction: Bladder cancer is one of the most frequent in developed countries. It is the 4th most frequent cancer in men and the 9th in women. The main risk factor is the smoking habit and its main symptom is hematuria.

[HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS: WHAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BETWEEN 2008-2012 IN IBEROAMERICA? ASSESSING NURSING PRODUCTION].

Aim: By 2013, 35.3 million people are living with HIV in the world. The objective of our study is to evaluate the scientific activity and the production of VIH in Spanish between the years 2008 and 2012.

[THE CHAIR OF BIRTHS: A RESOURCE COMPANION OF VERTICALITY IN CHILDBIRTH].

In primitive cultures, women chose to give birth in upright positions such as squatting or sitting, because these positions stimulate a physiological birth. In this way, in order to make easier the delivery support tools such as birthing chair (BC) are discovered. Later, with the medicalization of childbirth, the lithotomy position was introduced as standard practice, with the aim of promoting comfort to the birth attendant.

[MANAGEMENT OF VAGINAL CONES IN THE TREATMENT OF PELVIC FLOOR REHABILITATION].

The pelvic floor (PF) is a sheet of muscles and other tissues that support the pelvic organs in their physiological positions. Throughout women's lives, these structures can become weak or be injured by events such as pregnancy, childbirth, surgery, overweight or constipation. PF dysfunction includes a group of disorders causing urinary incontinence, as well as genital prolapse or pelvic pain, and can significantly deteriorate women's quality of life.

[The birthing ball: rediscovering a non pharmacological resource of great importance in the birth process].

Advances occurred in recent years in obstetrics show that the free movement of the pelvis during labour decreases pain and facilitates the birth of the newborn. Nowadays, many techniques have effective non pharmacological relief in pain during labour. The birthing ball (BB) is one of them, closely linked to freedom of movement, the pelvic tilt and vertical feeding; it has shown a decrease in anxiety and pain during the birthing process and increased rate of normal deliveries.

[Nursing professional image in the health centre: children's perceptions of our clothing].

Objective: The objective is to evaluate the opinions of a paediatric population of Pontedeume Health Centre, A Coruña, Spain regarding the clothing of nurses.

Method: A descriptive analytical cross-sectional study with of paediatric patients in Pontedeume Health Centre between the months of March and April 2010. Data were collected using a questionnaire consisting of 14 questions completed during a 15-minute semi-structured interview, and included a presentation with different pictures.