Dosage of heparin for patency of the totally implanted central venous catheter in cancer patients.

Objective: to analyze the evidence available in the literature about the lowest necessary dose of heparin to maintain the patency of the totally implanted central venous catheter in adult cancer patients.

Method: an integrative literature review, carried out in the following databases: Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências de Saúde, Sciverse Scopus, Web of Science, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, including thirteen studies.

Results: the evidence showed that the dose of heparin (300 IU/ml) is the most used in maintaining the patency of the totally implanted central venous catheter.

Determining impacts and factors in ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle.

Objective:: Assessing the determining impacts and factors in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) bundle.

Method:: descriptive retrospective longitudinal study, with quantitative approach, held at a public teaching hospital. Collection held between May 2014 and April 2015.

[Therapeutic communication in Nursing: essential instrument of care].

The objective of the study was to analyze the process of therapeutic communication as developed by nurses who work in hospital units according to Peplau's theory. It is a descriptive-exploratory research accomplished in the period of October and November of 2006, of the Municipal district of Fortaleza, CE, Brazil in october and november, 2006. The participants of the study were 14 patients and 12 nurses, through a a semi-structured interview.

[Care in situation of severe renal insufficiency: social representations elaborated by adolescents].

The objective of the study was to apprehend the social representations of teenagers in relation to care in situation of Severe Renal Insufficiency. It was applied the test of free association of words to 70 teenagers and interview semi-structured with eight teenagers. It was evoked 1630 words from the stimulus disease, health, dialysis, care of oneself, professional care and familiar care.