Clinical indicators, nursing diagnoses, and mortality risk in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort.

Objective: To identify clinical indicators and nursing diagnoses with the highest risk of mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Method: Retrospective cohort with the population of adults and elderly people with COVID-19 from an Intensive Care Unit. Categorical variables were described using absolute and relative frequencies and risk factors for mortality using Cox regression, with a confidence interval of 95%.

Meleis' Nursing Theories Evaluation: integrative review.

Objective: to analyze the application of the theory evaluation model proposed by Meleis in Brazilian studies.

Method: integrative review of online articles published from 2002 to 2012 in the databases LILACS and BDENF.

Results: the 16 selected studies confirmed the use of only three of the five stages proposed for Meleis' theories analysis: Description of the Theory, Criticism of the Theory and Analysis of the Theory, with a predominance of a single unit of analysis in each.

[Instrument to collect nursing data in General Intensive Care Unit].

The study aimed to build an instrument to collect nursing data for patients in a General ICU, based in Horta. Action research developed in three phases: identification of the empirical indicators in hospitalized adults in a General ICU; validation of the indicators and formatting of the preliminary instrument; apparent and content validation with a posterior arrangement of the instrument final version. A number of 545 empirical indicators were identified, remaining 179 with IC > 0.