Drug-resistant tuberculosis: integrative review of nursing care in primary health care.

Objectives: to identify, in the scientific literature, the care that should be provided to individuals with drug-resistant tuberculosis by nurses in primary health care.

Methods: integrative review, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses study selection flowchart. Data collection was conducted in November 2022, across ten databases.

Patient Undergoing Liver Transplantation: Challenges and Strategies in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: We aimed to identify the challenges and strategies experienced by patients undergoing liver transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This was a descriptive study with a qualitative approach conducted in a large liver transplant hospital in southern Brazil.

Results: The participants included liver transplant patients between the years 2011 and 2022.

Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Teleconsultation in Care Management for Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant.

Background: The aim of this study was to identify home care management strategies for patients undergoing liver transplant, through teleconsultation, during the COVID-19 pandemic for maintenance and improvements in treatment adherence.

Methods: This was a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive research study. Participants included patients who underwent liver transplant between 2020 and 2021.

Products and technologies for treating patients with evidence-based pressure ulcers.

Objective: to identify products/technologies for treating patients with pressure ulcers with an evidence level 1.

Method: this is an integrative literature review. A survey of studies was carried out using the United States National Library of Medicine Portal, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Virtual Health Library, National Library of Medicine(®), The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Latin American and Caribbean in Health Sciences, Nursing Database.

Perceptions of nurses about the implementation of the nursing process in an intensive unit.

Objective: To understand the nurses' perception about the implementation of the nursing process in an Intensive Care Unit.

Method: Qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study. Data collection took place from February to March/2018, in an Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in western Santa Catarina, through semi-structured interviews with nine nurses.

Health Needs of Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant From the Context of Hospital Discharge.

Objective: To identify the health needs of the patient and family facing the perspectives of discharge, health care, and adaptation to the new reality at home.

Methods: This was a quantitative and qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study conducted at a reference hospital for liver transplantation. The participants were patients undergoing liver transplant in this hospital unit from 2011 to June 2019.

Care for the person with oncological wound: permanent education in nursing mediated by educational technologies.

Objective: To recognize how educational technologies are not up-to-date and do not care about head and neck oncology.

Methods: Qualitative, exploratory-descriptive research. Held with 12 nurses, at a cancer reference center in the south of the country, in July/2017.

Mobile educational follow-up application for patients with peripheral arterial disease.

Objective: to describe the development of a prototype mobile educational application for nursing follow-up aimed at patients diagnosed with peripheral arterial disease.

Method: a prototype-based technological production study. The construction followed the contextualized instructional design model using two steps: analysis and design and development.

Emergency interventions for air medical services trauma victims.

Objective:: to analyze emergency interventions for air medical services trauma victims, considering the time at the scene of trauma and the severity of the victims.

Method:: This was a descriptive, correlational and quantitative study, conducted from October of 2014 to December of 2015. Six nurses participated, completing an instrument containing emergency interventions performed in the care of victims after the occurrence of trauma.

[The nursing process and the law of professional exercise].

The necessity of the cientificity in the nursing's working process, pushed by the science's advance and enclosure in the job market, configured itself in the establishment of nursing's process. The purpose of this study was to analyze in the nursing's legal documents, the nurse's duty opposite the Brazilian society, in the perspective of the scientific methodology in the working process. In a historic approach, the laws and designation-laws that normalized the nursing usage in the period that the nursing process was being introduced in Brazil.

[Nursing care systematization at the intensive care unit (ICU) based on Wanda Horta's theory].

The purpose of this study was to implement the Nursing Care Systematization--Sistematização da Assistência de Enfermagem (SAE)--with Wanda Aguiar Horta's Theory of Basic Human Necessities and the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association's (NANDA) Nursing Diagnosis as its references. The starting point was the evaluation of the knowledge of the nursing team about the SAE, including their participation in this process. This is a qualitative study, performed in the Intensive Care Unit in a hospital in the city of Brusque, Santa Catarina, from October, 2006 to March, 2007.

Psychiatric disorders and traumatic brain injury.

Psychiatric disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are frequent. Researches in this area are important for the patients' care and they may provide hints for the comprehension of primary psychiatric disorders. Here we approach epidemiology, diagnosis, associated factors and treatment of the main psychiatric disorders after TBI.