Predictors of excess fluid volume in hemodialysis patients: an observational study.

Objectives: to assess risk factors for excess fluid volume in hemodialysis patients.

Methods: a retrospective case-control study was conducted. A total of 392 patients (196 cases and 196 controls) from two hemodialysis centers were included.

Diagnostic accuracy study of the clinical indicators of vascular trauma in patients undergoing antineoplastic chemotherapy in peripheral veins.

Antineoplastic chemotherapy patients are susceptible to vascular trauma. The identification of this problem is possible through accurate clinical indicators. However, there are few diagnostic accuracy studies of vascular trauma in these patients.

Fatigue in patients with heart failure: A study of diagnostic accuracy fatigue in patients with heart failure.

Purpose: To analyze the accuracy of defining characteristics of the NANDA International nursing diagnosis, fatigue (00093), in patients with heart failure.

Methods: A cross-sectional study on the diagnostic accuracy of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis. The sample consisted of 96 patients with heart failure in treatment in a public hospital.

Accuracy of the nursing diagnosis of ineffective airway clearance in intensive care unit patients.

Objectives: to analyze the accuracy of the clinical indicators of ineffective airway clearance in adult intensive care unit patients.

Methods: diagnostic accuracy study, performed in the intensive care unit of a university hospital in northeastern Brazil. The sample consisted of 104 patients hospitalized between June and October 2019.

Anticoagulants for people hospitalised with COVID-19.

Background: The primary manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is respiratory insufficiency that can also be related to diffuse pulmonary microthrombosis and thromboembolic events, such as pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, or arterial thrombosis. People with COVID-19 who develop thromboembolism have a worse prognosis. Anticoagulants such as heparinoids (heparins or pentasaccharides), vitamin K antagonists and direct anticoagulants are used for the prevention and treatment of venous or arterial thromboembolism.

Constipation in Chemotherapy Patients: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study.

Objective: To analyze the accuracy of clinical indicators of constipation in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Methods: A diagnostic accuracy study was conducted from February to September 2018, with 240 cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The data collection instrument was a form with sociodemographic and clinical variables, and clinical indicators of constipation.

Effect of educational intervention on clinical reasoning skills in nursing: A quasi-experimental study.

This study evaluated the effect of an educational intervention based on virtual clinical simulation and problem-based learning using a mobile application in a clinical nursing education context as a tool to improve clinical reasoning skills of students on the second year of nursing graduation. A prospective quasi-experimental study was conducted in the year 2018, and assessments were performed before and after the educational intervention. A random convenience sample (n = 32) of nursing students in the second year of a public university in Brazil was divided equally into experimental and control groups.

Virtual clinical simulation in nursing education: a concept analysis.

Objectives: To analyze the concept of virtual clinical simulation in nursing education.

Methods: The Walker and Avant concept analysis model guided the study process and the data collection followed the integrative literature review method. Databases searched were: CINAHL, PubMed, Education Resources Information Center, and Scopus.

Prophylactic anticoagulants for people hospitalised with COVID-19.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a serious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The primary manifestation is respiratory insufficiency that can also be related to diffuse pulmonary microthrombosis in people with COVID-19. This disease also causes thromboembolic events, such as pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis, arterial thrombosis, catheter thrombosis, and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy.

Teaching cardiovascular physical examination in nursing: clinical simulation.

Objective: To evaluate, in Nursing students, the effect of clinical simulation as an educational strategy for learning about the cardiovascular physical examination.

Methods: Quasi-experimental study, with the placement of 30 undergraduate nursing students, from a public university in Northeast Brazil, in two groups - intervention and control. The educational intervention consisted of a clinical simulation applied to the intervention group.

The Diagnostic Accuracy of Delayed Development in Adolescents.

Introduction: The early identification of developmental delay in adolescents by health professionals is relevant for a good prognosis. However, the clinical indicators of development delay are unclear in nursing science.

Purpose: To analyze the clinical indicators of delayed development in school adolescents.

Delay in Growth in Adolescents: Clinical Validation of a Proposed Nursing Diagnosis.

Purpose: This study aims to analyse the accuracy of clinical indicators of the proposed diagnosis of delayed growth in school-aged adolescents.

Design And Methods: This is a diagnostic accuracy study of 385 adolescents in public schools from July to September 2017 that aimed to assess the accuracy of clinical indicators of the proposed nursing diagnosis of delayed growth; the sensitivity and specificity values were calculated using latent class analysis.

Results: Growth velocity less than expected was associated with sensitivity and specificity.

Ineffective health management in hemodialysis patients: content analysis.

Objective: To analyze the content of the nursing diagnosis Ineffective Health Management in hemodialysis patients.

Method: The Nursing Diagnoses Validation Model by Lopes, Silva and Auraújo was used in this research. A semi-structured questionnaire and evaluated the definition, location, defining characteristics, and related factors of the diagnosis Ineffective Health Management was answered by 22 experts in nursing diagnosis.

Pruritus in hemodialysis patients: association with phosphorus intake and serum calcium level.

Objective: To analyze the association between the occurrence of pruritus and adherence to the prescribed diet, biochemical indicators of renal function and the quality of hemodialysis in chronic renal patients.

Method: A cross-sectional study performed at a dialysis clinic in the Northeast of Brazil, with 200 patients undergoing hemodialysis in the first half of 2015.To analyze the data, inferential statistics were used, using Chi-Square and Fisher's Exact tests; and Mann Whitney U test.

Ineffective Health Management in Hemodialysis Patients: Diagnostic Accuracy Study.

This study analyzed the accuracy of clinical indicators of ineffective health management in hemodialysis patients. A diagnostic accuracy study was performed in 200 chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis during the first half of 2015. Measures of sensitivity and specificity were calculated using latent class analysis.

Predictors of pressure ulcer risk in adult intensive care patients: A retrospective case-control study.

Objectives: To evaluate the predictive power of risk factors for pressure ulcers in adult intensive care patients.

Method: A retrospective case-control study was performed utilising a heterogeneous sample group allocated into a case group with pressure ulcers (n=90) and a control group without pressure ulcers (n=90). The analysis explored the predictive power of risk factors for pressure ulcers using a hierarchical logistic regression model.

Ineffective Protection in Hemodialysis Patients: Sociodemographic and Clinical Context.

Purpose: To analyze the association between components of the nursing diagnosis ineffective protection (00043) and sociodemographic and clinical data of hemodialysis patients.

Method: Cross-sectional study was conducted during the first half of 2015 with a sample of 200 patients from a reference clinic of nephrology. A structured instrument containing operational definitions was used to collect data.

Clinical validation of the nursing diagnosis of ineffective protection in haemodialysis patients.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the clinical validity of indicators of the nursing diagnosis of "ineffective protection" in haemodialysis patients.

Background: Haemodialysis patients have reduced protection. Studies on the nursing diagnosis of "ineffective protection" are scarce in the literature.

Excess fluid volume: sociodemographic and clinical analysis in haemodialysis patients.

Objective:: To analyse the defining characteristics and related factors in the nursing diagnosis Excess fluid volume and its relationship to sociodemographic and clinical variables in haemodialysis patients.

Method:: Cross-sectional study, conducted using a form and physical examination, with a sample of 100 patients, between December 2012 and April 2013 at a university hospital and a dialysis clinic.

Results:: It was found 10 significant statistical associations between the defining characteristics/ related factors of Excess fluid volume and the sociodemographic and clinical variables.

Venous ulcer: risk factors and the Nursing Outcomes Classification.

Objective: To explore the relationship between the risk factors for the development of venous ulcers and the indicators of tissue integrity from the Nursing Outcomes Classification.

Methodology: A cross-sectional study conducted in 2013 in a university hospital in Natal/RN (Brazil). Fifty individuals selected by consecutive sampling participated in an interview and physical examination.