Qualification of palliative nursing assistance in the use of the subcutaneous route.

Objectives: to describe the experience of conducting workshops for teaching the subcutaneous fluid infusion therapy in palliative care patients.

Methods: experience report based on four workshops with a workload of nine hours each, addressing the teaching, implementation of the technique, and management in the use of subcutaneous fluid infusion therapy in patients in palliative care. The host institution was a private hospital, which had two care units in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Psychosocial factors and prevalence of burnout syndrome among nursing workers in intensive care units.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of burnout syndrome among nursing workers in intensive care units and establish associations with psychosocial factors.

Methods: This descriptive study evaluated 130 professionals, including nurses, nursing technicians, and nursing assistants, who performed their activities in intensive care and coronary care units in 2 large hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Data were collected in 2011 using a self-reported questionnaire.

Men's health in question: seeking assistance in primary health care.

The scope of this study was to analyze the socio-demographic profile, morbidity and frequency of seeking of adult men enrolled in a Family Doctor Program for health care in Niterói in the State of Rio de Janeiro. It is a cross-sectional study using secondary data, files and records of the first care visit in November 2003 through August 2009. The frequencies of the variables studied and the prevalence rates among those who sought and those who did not seek attention were calculated.