The meaning of a "good nurse" in pediatric care: a concept analysis.

Objective: to analyze the attributes, antecedents and consequences of the concept a "good nurse" in the context of Pediatrics.

Method: concept analysis study based on Rodgers' evolutionary method. Theoretical stage consisted of searching for articles in the CINAHL, Embase and Pubmed databases and a practical stage of semi-structured interviews with pediatric nurses.

[Factors influencing Intensive Care Units nurses in end-of-life decisions].

Objective: To identify the factors that influence the Intensive Care Unit nurse in the decision-making process in end-of-life situations.

Method: Ethnographic case study, which used the theoretical framework of medical anthropology. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 10 nurses.

[Nursing concepts and theories].

The theory framework of nursing science is built in a dynamic process that arises from practice and is reproduced through research, mainly by analysis and development of concepts and theories. This study presents a theory reflection on nursing knowledge construction and points out subsidies for future studies in the area. The interrelation among theory, research, and clinical practice is required for continuous development of nursing as a profession and science.

The process of end-of-life care delivery to the families of elderly patients according to the Family Health Strategy.

Objective: To understand the process of end-of-life care delivery to the families of elderly patients according to a Family Health Strategy (FHS) team, to identify the meanings the team attributes to the experience and to build a theoretical model.

Method: Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory were applied. Fourteen professionals working in an FHS located in a country town in the state of São Paulo were interviewed.

[Dignified death for children: perceptions of nurses from an oncology unit].

The objective of this study was to identify the meaning of dignified death and the interventions employed by nurses in pediatric oncology to promote dignified death for children. We used Symbolic Interaction Theory as the theoretical framework and narrative research methods. The data were collected from eight nurses in the pediatric oncology unit of a public hospital in Sao Paulo through semi-structured interviews.

Dignified death: concept development involving nurses and doctors in pediatric intensive care units.

The aim of this study was to develop the concept of the dignified death of children in Brazilian pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The Hybrid Model for Concept Development was used to develop a conceptual structure of dignified death in PICUs in an attempt to define the concept. The fieldwork study was carried out by means of in-depth interviews with nine nurses and seven physicians working in PICUs.

[Religious beliefs, illness and death: family's perspectives in illness experience].

The objectives of this study were to identify predominant themes in religion, illness and death in the life histories of families and examine the relationship between religion creeds, illness and death in the discourse of families that have an ill person. The theoretical framework used in this study was Symbolic Interactionism and the method was Oral History. Participants were seventeen families with nine different religions, who had experienced the death of a relative.

[Dignified death for children: concept analysis].

The purpose of this study was to describe the background, attributes and consequences of the concept of dignified death for children. The concept analysis strategy was used to evaluate the 40 articles found in journals in the medical and nursing areas, which studied or focused on the dignified death of children. The attributes of the dignified death concept include: quality of life, child- and family-centered care, specific knowledge about palliative care, shared decisions, relieving the child's suffering, clear communication, helpful relations and a welcoming environment.

[Sharing the death process with the family: a nurse's experience in the pediatric ICU].

Death is present in the daily reality of nurses who work with children in ICU. This research aimed to comprehend nurses' experience while taking care of children and his/her family experiencing the death process. Symbolic Interactionism was adopted as a theoretical reference framework, while Interpretative Interactionism was used as a methodological reference framework to analyze the biographical narratives of seven nurses who took part in the research.

[Infant mortality in a municipality of the interior of the State of Sao Paulo].

Considering that infant mortality indicates the levels of health in the population, we have accomplished the foolwing work, which goals were to identify the causes of infancy mortality during the year of 1998 in Botucatu. The rate of infanty mortality obtained was as much as 12/1000 born alive with greater participation of the neonatal deaths-8,3/1000 born alive. Though most of deaths can be classified as reducible or partially reducible, but the necessary attention to make such reduction possible has varied.