Adherence to sepsis protocol in a high-risk maternity reference center.

Objective: To describe the adherence to the sepsis protocol by obstetric nurses in the obstetric triage of a high-risk maternity reference center.

Methods: This was a quantitative, documental, and retrospective study involving 105 pregnant women treated in obstetric triage under sepsis criteria. Data were collected through electronic medical records using structured forms and were organized into tables employing descriptive statistics.

Exercise of professional autonomy of intensive care nurses in the pandemic scenario.

Objective: To analyze the exercise of professional autonomy of intensive care nurses during times of the new coronavirus pandemic.

Method: A descriptive, qualitative study, conducted with 19 nurses from Intensive Care Units of two public hospitals and one private hospital. The information was produced from October 2020 to January 2021, through semi-structured interviews, using content analysis in thematic modality, guided by Eliot Freidson's Sociology of Professions.

Spirituality in the uncertainty of illness: the perspective of oncology patients.

Objective: To analyze spirituality in the process of illness uncertainty in cancer patients.

Methods: This is a qualitative study, in which Merle Mishel's Theory of Uncertainty of Disease was used as a theoretical framework; and as a methodological reference, the stages of Bardin's Content Analysis. As a technique for obtaining information, a semi-structured interview was used.

Existential transformations in the process of facing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by the family caregiver.

Objective: To understand the existential transformations of the family caregiver of a person living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Method: Qualitative study based on assumptions of Martin Heidegger Existential Phenomenology, with 12 family caregivers of the person with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, in Alagoas. The testimonies were obtained from June 2019 to March 2020 and analyzed, categorized, and discussed based on the theoretical-philosophical framework adopted and thematic literature.

The experience of nursing students facing death and dying.

Objective: To understand the phenomenon experienced by nursing students in their academic practices in view of death and dying.

Methodology: This was a qualitative study, based on Martin Heidegger' existential phenomenology, undertaken at a public University in Alagoas, Brazil, between August and October 2013. Seven senior students of nursing were interviewed.

[The phenomenon experienced by relatives with a family member hospitalized in the intensive care unit].

The aim of this study is to understand the phenomenon lived by relatives who have a family member hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU), and the used approach was the phenomenological one in the modality of the situated phenomenon. Ten family members of patients hospitalized in the ICU of a private hospital in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, were interviewed from March to July of 2006. Five thematic categories emerged from the analysis, which constituted the elements of the lived experience: Fear of the patient's death; Absence of humanization; Social isolation; Trust in the ICU and Overloading of personal life With the phenomenon revealed, it was possible to subsidize the construction of a humanized approach that looks on the patient's family.