Nursing Interventions for Patients With Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction Arising From Complete Spinal Cord Injury: A Scoping Review.

Purpose: We mapped key concepts and identified 4 fundamental nursing interventions for patients with neurogenic bowel dysfunction due to complete spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: A scoping review was conducted according to the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Search Strategy: Searches were performed in PubMed, LILACS, CINAHL, COCHRANE, and SCOPUS electronic databases.

Stomized children care practices: narratives of relatives.

Objectives: to understand the practices adopted by relatives regarding ostomized children care.

Methods: qualitative approach, conducted with 11 relatives of ostomized children. Methodological framework was used as narrative technique; NVivo® software for data categorization and information analysis; content analysis technique.

[Anorectal anomaly and maternal care].

This purpose of the article was to make a bibliographic review about anorectal malformations and maternal cares. The matter was addressed through an integrative review undertaken in consultation of articles published in the databases indexed in the Virtual Health Library. We identified 25 publications that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria pre-established.

[Treatment of open wounds using Mosqueta Rose: a review].

This article is about a literature revision concerning to the main published scientific works in the last two decades about the medicinal properties of the Mosqueta Rose, especially in the treatment of open wounds. The objective is to congregate information demonstrating, by means of scientific and empirical evidences, the importance of the traditional medicine related to the use of the Mosqueta Rose in many clinical applications. This study is characterized as a compilation of significant information about the composition, indications and empirical uses of the extract of Mosqueta Rose, in order to make easier posterior researches, since the production about this subject is scarce.

[Parents and nursing staff's expectations regarding the nurse's work in a NICU].

The general purpose of this investigation was to identify parent and nursing staff expectations regarding the nurse's role in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). A descriptive study was carried out using a qualitative approach and interviews were conducted at a NICU in the interior of the State of São Paulo. Results showed new expectations on the part of parents and professionals regarding the role of NICU nurses.

[Hospitalization in neonatal intensive care units in Brazil -- 1998-2001].

This study aimed at obtaining information on the development of data records in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Brazil; comparing the number of beds in Neonatal Intensive Care Units with that in Intensive Care Units in general and assessing their distribution in different Brazilian states. There has been an increase in the number of beds and authorizations for hospitalizations in intensive care units. The percentages indicating the total number of beds for intensive care and neonatal intensive care vary from one state to another with 17% in São Paulo, 25% in Rio Grande do Sul and 29.