Course for the qualification of nurses in the care of children with genetic diseases: an experience report.

Objective: To describe the experience of developing and operating an extension course to qualify nurses in the care of children with genetic diseases.

Method: An experience report about the conduction of a university extension course with eight participants, developed at a public university in southern Brazil. It was a face-to-face course in November 2019.

Patient safety incidents reported by relatives of hospitalized children.

Objective: To know the main safety incidents reported by relatives of patients hospitalized in pediatric units.

Methods: This is a qualitative research with exploratory-descriptive design. Data were collected between April 2016 and December 2017, in three hospitals in Porto Alegre/RS.

Communication for patient safety in pediatric hospitalizations.

Objective: To analyze the perception of health professionals and companions/family about the development of communication for patient safety in pediatric hospitalizations.

Method: It is an exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach, performed in pediatric clinical-surgical hospitalization units of three hospitals in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. 44 health professionals and 94 companions of hospitalized children participated in the study, to a total of 138 participants.