Products and technologies for treating patients with evidence-based pressure ulcers.

Objective: to identify products/technologies for treating patients with pressure ulcers with an evidence level 1.

Method: this is an integrative literature review. A survey of studies was carried out using the United States National Library of Medicine Portal, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Virtual Health Library, National Library of Medicine(®), The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Latin American and Caribbean in Health Sciences, Nursing Database.

[Recent trends in scholarship on the history of nursing in Brazil].

The article analyzes the scholarship on the history of nursing in Brazil produced by research groups from 1999 to 2009. A descriptive and documental study of an exploratory nature was conducted, using version 5.0 of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development's directory of research groups as well as the individual curricula of lead researchers, as available on the Lattes Platform.

Nursing care and patient safety: visualizing medication organization, storage and distribution with photographic research methods.

In this qualitative study, we adapted photographic research methods from earlier nursing research to identify factors related to organization, storage and distribution that could lead to errors in the selection, preparation and administration of medications. The research excerpt presented here was developed in a clinical unit of an urban Brazilian public hospital. The research participants were nurses working at that unit and students from the two final semesters of the Undergraduate Nursing Course.

[Perceptions and significance of being diagnosed and living with HIV/AIDS].

This is a descriptive and qualitative study with the objective of understanding the perceptions and meanings which the patients give to the diagnosis and conviviality with HIV/AIDS Thirteen patients who are users of STD/AIDS ambulatory services were interviewed in the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Data were examined by the method of content analysis, resulting into the following categories: Discovery of a positive diagnosis to HIV social coping: diagnosis of AIDS in the public context; living with AIDS: new concepts regarding the disease The results showed that the HIV diagnosis causes sadness, fear and sense of finitude. The fear of revealing one's condition to family and friends is mostly caused by social prejudice, which is product of a disease connected to stereotypes.