Incidence of pressure injuries in critically ill patients with and without covid-19: study of Cohort.

Objective: To compare the incidence, characteristics, and risk factors of pressure injuries among critically ill patients with and without Covid-19 in an intensive care unit.

Method: Retrospective cohort study in an intensive care unit by collecting data from electronic medical records of patients admitted in 2021. Sample of 302 patients, 151 with Covid-19 and 151 without Covid-19.

Implementation of bedside medication preparation in intensive care: post-improvement cycle.

Objective: To assess the implementation of the bedside medication preparation process in an Intensive Care Unit, following a quality improvement cycle.

Method: A quasi-experimental study with non-paired samples, pre- and post-implementation, conducted in an Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in southern Brazil, from September 2022 to April 2023, following the guidelines of the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence 2.0.

Validation of manual to complement the transition of care at discharge from intensive care.

Objective: To develop and validate an interprofessional manual for the transfer of care to critically ill adult patients.

Method: Methodological study, conducted from January to September 2019. The content of the manual was listed by the multidisciplinary team of an adult Intensive Care Unit, in southern Brazil.

Burnout and resilience in intensive care Nursing professionals in the face of COVID-19: A multicenter study.

Objective: to analyze the relationship between the Burnout dimensions and the work resilience of intensive care Nursing professionals in the COVID-19 pandemic in four hospitals from southern Brazil.

Method: this is a multicenter and cross-sectional study, composed of 153 nurses and nursing technicians of the Intensive Care Units. Sociodemographic, health and work-related questions were collected, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory and Resilience at Work Scale 20 instruments were applied.

Critically ill COVID-19 patients: a sociodemographic and clinical profile and associations between variables and workload.

Objective: To identify the sociodemographic and clinical profile of COVID-19 patients; measure workload and make associations between clinical variables.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 150 adult COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit (from March to June 2020). Data from the electronic medical record in the first 24 hours of hospitalization: gender, age, education, origin, comorbidities, invasive mechanical ventilation, prone maneuver, renal replacement therapy, pressure injury, Braden, Nursing Activities Score, diagnoses, and nursing care.

The Correspondence Between Fluid Balance and Body Weight Change Measurements in Critically Ill Adult Patients.

Introduction: Positive fluid status has been associated with a worse prognosis in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Given the potential for errors in the calculation of fluid balance totals and the problem of accounting for indiscernible fluid losses, measurement of body weight change is an alternative non-invasive method commonly used for estimating body fluid status. The objective of the study is to compare the measurements of fluid balance and body weight changes over time and to assess their association with ICU mortality.

Nursing practice environment in intensive care unit and professional burnout.

Objective: To evaluate and compare the nursing practice environments in Intensive Care Units of a public and private hospital and the prevalence of burnout among nursing professionals.

Method: Cross-sectional, descriptive study with a quantitative approach to the data. The data collection took place between October 2018 and March 2019, and it was carried out through a questionnaire with socio-occupational variables and with metrics of intensity.

Septic shock: Clinical indicators and implications to critical patient care.

Aims And Objective: To identify clinical indicators of septic shock in critical care patients.

Background: The identification of clinical indicators of septic shock is relevant to avoid clinical deterioration of patients with sepsis. However, the recognition of these factors, especially by the nursing team, is still deficient and reinforces the need for studies that investigate the subject in different realities such as that of Brazil.

SNOMED-CT as a standardized language system model for nursing: an integrative review.

Objective: To describe the use of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) as a model for interoperability of the nursing terminology in the national and international contexts.

Methods: This is an integrative literature review according to Cooper, which searched for articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published between September 2011 and November 2018 in the BVS, PubMed, SCOPUS, CINAHL, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases, ending in a sample of 15 articles.

Results: The SNOMED-CT is a multi-professional nomenclature used by nursing in different care contexts, being associated with other standardized languages of the discipline, such as ICNP®, NANDA-I, and the Omaha System.

Nursing taxonomies in hospital discharge planning: a quasi-experimental study.

Objective: to evaluate the effect of implementation of hospital discharge planning based on the taxonomies of NANDA-International, nursing interventions classification (NIC) and nursing outcomes classification (NOC) for patients with heart failure (HF) or diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: quasi-experimental quantitative study conducted in a public university hospital located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Convenience sampling included 28 adult patients hospitalized for HF or DM with the nursing diagnosis Ineffective Health Management (00078), who received the following nursing interventions: Teaching: Disease Process, Teaching: Prescribed Medication and Teaching: Prescribed Diet.

Quality of life, health conditions and life style of civil police officers.

Objectives: Evaluate the relation between quality of life, health conditions and life style of Civil Police Officers in Porto Alegre/RS.

Method: Transversal study with 237 police officers that answered a questionnaire containing socio-occupational information, life style, health conditions and the instrument World Health Quality of Life (WHOQOL-bref). The data was collected in 2018 and submitted to statistical analysis.

Validation of a multidisciplinary care protocol for critically ill patients with delirium.

Objective: To validate a multiprofessional protocol for the care of patients with delirium admitted to an intensive care unit.

Method: Methodological study with the purpose of confirming with experts the care recommendations proposed in the protocol. For the content validation process, the content validity index of ≥ 0.

Nursing assessment: the elaboration and development of a massive open online course.

Objective: Describing the stages of elaboration and development of a massive open online course on "Nursing Assessment".

Method: Experience report of the construction of a free course, developed between 2015 and 2016 with the partnership of the School of Nursing and the Nucleus of Support to Distance Learning. The course was hosted on the Lúmina platform.

Accuracy of Defining Characteristics for Nursing Diagnoses Related to Patients with Respiratory Deterioration.

Purpose: To evaluate accuracy of defining characteristics (DCs) for impaired gas exchange (IGE), impaired spontaneous ventilation (ISV), and ineffective breathing pattern (IBP) in respiratory deterioration.

Methods: This study is a retrospective analysis of medical records. The accuracy and predictive ability of DC or of clusters are calculated.

Relationship between elderly stroke patient caregivers scale and nursing diagnoses.

Objective: To describe relationships between the ECPICID-AVC scale factors and the NANDA-I domains, classes, and Nursing Diagnoses (NDs).

Method: Cross-mapping study between the NANDA-I taxonomy and ECPICID-AVC scale was constructed based on the eight ECPICID-AVC scale factors and the 13 NANDA-I domains. A descriptive analysis was performed to present the mapped elements.

Multiprofessional care for delirium patients in intensive care: integrative review.

Objective: To describe the multiprofessional care for the management of critical patients in delirium in the ICU from the evidences found in the literature.

Methods: This integrative review was carried out in the period from February 1 to June 30, 2016 through searches on PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and CINAHL, with the following descriptors: delirium, critical care e intensive care units, which brought up 17 original papers.

Results: A bundle and a guideline, two systematic reviews, evidence 1a and four clinical trials, evidence 1b and 2b, cohort and observational studies were found.

Case studies and role play: learning strategies in nursing.

Objective:: to report professors' experience in a public university of Southern region of Brazil using case studies and role play as learning strategies for nursing care of hospitalized adults.

Method:: learning experience report from the Nursing Care of Adults I class of nursing undergraduate course.

Results: the development of case studies and role play considered health care needs from epidemiological profile of chronic noncommunicable diseases morbidity and mortality, nursing as an assisting method, and social aspects of hospitalized individuals.

Home-based nursing interventions improve knowledge of disease and management in patients with heart failure.

Objective: to assess patient knowledge of heart failure by home-based measurement of two NOC Nursing Outcomes over a six-month period and correlate mean outcome indicator scores with mean scores of a heart failure Knowledge Questionnaire.

Methods: in this before-and-after study, patients with heart failure received four home visits over a six-month period after hospital discharge. At each home visit, nursing interventions were implemented, NOC outcomes were assessed, and the Knowledge Questionnaire was administered.

[Factors associated to the length of time on mechanical ventilation in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery].

Our objective was to identify factors associated with the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV) postoperative to cardiac surgery and assess the association between duration of endotracheal intubation, length of stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospital. Longitudinal, retrospective study of medical records of 116 adults undergoing cardiac surgery from March 2012 to May 2013. The mean age was 57 +/- 14 years, predominantly male and coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (52.

Effectiveness of nursing interventions in heart failure patients in home care using NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC.

Objective: The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions (NIC) using nursing outcomes (NOC) and based on NANDA-I nursing diagnoses in patients with heart failure in home care.

Method: In this longitudinal study, 23 patients with heart failure were followed for 6 months, in four home visits. During the visits, nursing diagnoses were established, outcomes assessed, and interventions implemented.

[Consensus on nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes for home care of patients with heart failure].

This was a consensus study with six cardiology nurses with the objective of selecting nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions described by NANDA International (NANDA-I), Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC), for home care of patients with heart failure (HF). Eight nursing diagnoses (NDs) were pre-selected and a consensus was achieved in three stages, during which interventions/activities and outcomes/indicators of each NDs were validated and those considered valid obtained 70% to 100% consensus. From the eight pre-selected NDs, two were excluded due to the lack of consensus on appropriate interventions for the clinical home care scenario.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality of Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes (Q-DIO) instrument into Brazilian Portuguese.

Purpose:   To describe the cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality of Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes instrument into Brazilian Portuguese.

Method:   This process entailed translation, synthesis, back-translation, expert committee review, and pretesting.

Findings:   Six items were altered in the Brazilian version, and the scoring system was changed from a five-point to a three-point Likert-type scale.

[Chest pain in acute myocardial infarction among diabetic and non-diabetic patients].

Considering that diabetic patients suffering from Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) may or may not have chest pain, this study aimed to compare the presence and intensity of chest pain in AMI between diabetic and non-diabetic patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study that included patients with AMI, aged ≥ 18 years, both sexes. We used a verbal numeric scale for assessing the presence and intensity of pain.

Explanatory digital video disc with patients undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterization.

The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge of patients before outpatient diagnostic cardiac catheterization after viewing an explanatory Digital Video Disc, in a cardiology reference hospital. This cross-sectional study was carried out with patients undergoing their first cardiac catheterization and was performed from May to June 2009 in the hemodynamic sector. An instrument was used with questions (12) regarding the patients' understanding of the procedure.