Existing as a being-with-heart-disease-who-developed-pressure-wounds: an understanding based on Martin Heidegger.

Objective: To understand, using Martin Heidegger's phenomenological framework, the Being who experiences a heart disease and develops a pressure injury.

Method: Qualitative, phenomenological study using Martin Heidegger's theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework. Nine participants were interviewed at their residences, from October to December 2015, Ceará.

Production and validation of the short film Pés que te quero®: educational technology for people with diabetes.

Objective: To describe the production and validation of short film type educational technology for the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers.

Methods: A methodological study focused on the validation of a short film. The construction of the film was carried out in three stages: pre-production, production, and post-production.

Medium reach theory for nursing in cardiovascular rehabilitation.

Objectives: to describe a medium-range nursing theory for the cardiovascular rehabilitation process.

Methods: theoretical development study, addressing the elaboration of medium-range theory, based on Roy's Adaptation Model, which combined theoretical deduction with induction strategies, based on literature review and concept analysis.

Results: the Medium-Range Theory for Nursing in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation presents eleven concepts and respective definitions, organized in relationships that represent elements, through modeling and image representation.

Perception of nursing in Primary Health Care about patients with hypertension: does King explain?

Objectives: to understand nurses' perceptions about Imogene King's concepts on CMIOS and its association with caring for patients with hypertension in Primary Health Care.

Methods: a qualitative interventionist research with Family Health Strategy nurses who care for patients with hypertension at Primary Health Care in Maracanaú-CE. A focus group was held with seven nurses, in two audio-recorded and transcribed meetings, to analyze the production of meanings based on discursive practices.

ICNP ® nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions for community elderly.

Objective: To construct a nomenclature of nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions for elderly people under follow-up in the Family Health Strategy by using the International Classification for Nursing Practice and the theoretical reference of Virginia Henderson.

Method: Methodological study developed according to guidelines of the International Council of Nurses.

Results: A total of 127 concepts of nursing diagnoses/outcomes were constructed and distributed according to nursing care components in the subcategories of Biological/Physiological, Psychological, Social and Spiritual/Moral components.

Pain in the immediate puerperium: nursing care contribution.

Objective: to analyze the contribution of clinical nursing care to the mother who has recently given birth with immediate postpartum pain based on the Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort.

Method: qualitative study by the research-care method. Three nurses, who provided care for women in the immediate puerperium as caregiver-researchers and 30 postpartum women, were admitted to a public maternity hospital.

Contribution of transpersonal care to cardiac patients in the postoperative period of heart surgery.

Objective: To know the contribution of Watson's theory to nursing care for cardiac patients in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery.

Methods: This is a qualitative study based on the research-care method conducted with ten patients who underwent cardiac surgery in a specialised hospital from June to August 2013, in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Data were submitted to content analysis based on the Clinical Caritas Process.

Nursing care to patients with diabetes based on King's Theory.

Objective: To verify the effectiveness of nursing interventions based on the Imogene King's Theory of Goal Attainment, on improving care for people with diabetes and adherence to treatment.

Method: Quasi-experimental, longitudinal, randomized, simple study in a Primary Health Care Unit, in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará state, Brazil. The sample consisted of 60 people with diabetes, divided into intervention and control groups, whose collection occurred from February to August 2013.

The Tidal Model: analysis based on Meleis's perspective.

Objective: To critically reflect on the conceptual components of the Tidal Model in the application of the mental healthcare process.

Method: Critical analysis based on the Models of Theory Analysis, focused on the clarity and consistency of the theoretical components of the Tidal Model.

Results: The clarity of the theory was verified through the demonstration of the following components: functional, presuppositions, concepts and propositions.

Possibilities of care for serodiscordant couples for HIV who got pregnant.

Objective: Understanding the meaning of pregnancy for heterosexual couples facing serodiscordant situation for HIV, aiming at construction of care possibilities based on subjectivity.

Method: Phenomenological research, theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework by Martin Heidegger. Research was conducted in a University Hospital in the countryside of Southern Brazil, from September 2013 to May 2014 through a phenomenological interview, with participation of eleven couples.

Clinical care of nursing reasoned in Parse: contribution in the transcendence process of cardiac transplantation.

Objetivo: To identify how the clinical and educational nursing care based on the Theory of Human Becoming can contribute to the transcendence process of heart transplant patients in pursuit of good living.

Method: Research-intervention developed with four heart transplant patients linked to a reference transplant hospital in Ceara. Data was collected through interviews in 2014 and analyzed using Parse's theoretical framework and pertinent literature.

Usefulness of the comfort theory in the clinical nursing care of new mothers: critical analysis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the comfort theory for the clinical nursing care of new mothers.

Methods: This is a reflexive-theoretical study conducted in November and December 2014, based on the usefulness criterion proposed in the critical analysis of the Barnum nursing theory.

Results: The comfort theory in nursing care for new mothers applied to study analysis revealed that this theory meets the criteria of usefulness because it provides applicable concepts that facilitated the clinical nursing care of women in the postpartum period and helped increase their comfort level.

Subset of nursing diagnoses for the elderly in Primary Health Care.

Objective: To develop a subset of nursing diagnoses for the elderly followed in primary health care based on the bank of terms for clinical nursing practice with the elderly, in the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP(r)) version 2013, and on the Model of Nursing Care.

Method: Descriptive study developed in sequential steps of construction and validation of the bank of terms, elaboration of the nursing diagnoses based on the guidelines of the International Council of Nurses and the bank of terms, and categorization of diagnostics according to the Care Model.

Results: The total of 127 nursing diagnoses were elaborated from 359 validated terms, distributed according to the basic human needs.

Women's temporality after cardiac surgery: contributions to nursing care.

Objective: to unveil women's existential movement after cardiac surgery.

Method: qualitative phenomenological study. The research setting was a hospital in Minas Gerais, in which ten women were interviewed between December 2011 and January 2012.

[Applicability of ICNP® based on the theory of modeling and role-modeling].

This study aimed to analyze the proposal of educational plan organized through the Nursing Process, using the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®), based on the Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling, to one group of women in Maracanaú-CE, Brazil. A case study was carried out in an educational group of women. A qualitative approach conducted the data production guided by the Creative and Sensitive Method.

[Nursing care: how nursing assistants perceive it].

This is a descriptive, exploratory study wih a qualitative approach performed in a University Hospital from the Federal Public Network of the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. It aimed to understand how nursing assistants perceive nursing care and to know the actions performed by nurses that are recognized as care activities. Eight nurses from the surgical intensive care unit participated in the study.

[Barriers to hypertension treatment].

The objective was to describe the barriers faced by people with hypertension for non compliance to treatment and control the levels of blood pressure. This is a transversal and descriptive study which was carried out in 6 basic health units in Fortaleza-Ceará, Brazil. The population consisted of 246 people enrolled in the program to Control Hypertension for at least a year.

Risk for decreased cardiac output: validation of a proposal for nursing diagnosis.

Aim: To verify the content validity of the nursing diagnosis risk for decreased cardiac output (RDCO).

Background: DCO is a phenomenon that is not restricted to individuals or environments that specifically focus on cardiovascular care. It is not only prevalent in cardiovascular care units, but also in post-anaesthesia units and non-cardiac care units among individuals with non-cardiogenic disorders.

[Evaluation of pain intensity and vital signs in the cardiac surgery postoperative period].

The objective of this study is to analyze the changes in vital signs of postoperative cardiac surgery patients, according to the referred pain intensity. This descriptive-exploratory study was performed using quantitative analysis to investigate 38 patients submitted to a first dressing change. The analysis of the data, measured before and after performing the nursing procedure, indicated that the manifestation of pain occurred at different levels.

[Perceptions of people about hypertension and concepts of Imogene King].

As the discussion on cardiovascular diseases is a relevant matter, this paper aims to analyze the perceptions of a group of hypertensive people about their sickness process related to King's conceptual models of personal and interpersonal systems. This descriptive and exploitative study was developed in a reference unit in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, accepted by the Ethics Committee of Ceará State University Fifty hypertensive people participated (34 women and 16 men), ages 23 to 84. Results show fear of complications, satisfaction in adapting to treatment, dissatisfaction with the changes in their life style and resignation towards the disease.

[Sociodemographic and clinical profile of a nursing team with high blood pressure].

Descriptive-exploratory study carried out in a hospital from Fortaleza, CE, Brazil to evaluate the characteristics of nursing professionals with High Blood Pression from a hospital for cardiovascular diseases. In the population of the nursing staff, the sample had 130 participants, who met the criteria for inclusion. Data were collected through interviews and sociodemographic characteristics were predominant: average level (72.

[Permanent care: 24 hours nursing care, our way to take care].

Theoretical-reflexive study motivated by the epistemology of Gaston Bachelard and by the project "Thousand and one ways to take care in Nursing" by Maria José Coelho. We had as objective to trace new ways to take care in dialysis nursing, creating a system of cares offered to chronic kidney patients. Seven nursing cares that involve care of people in dialysis treatment were described: reception; bonding; specialized techniques; support to self-care; assessment of the treatment, facing the unstimulating routine; and citizenship rescue.

[Education of the nurse for caring: reflections of professional practice].

It is a reflective study that aimed at discussing the education of the nurse concerning the care in a perspective of change of the professional practice. The curricular guidelines for the profession are based Guidelines and Basis for National Edcucation which have aims to educate capable nurses to transform the practical reality of the Brazilian nursing. However, we realize that only the implementation of such guidelines does not make possible the education of critical, reflexive and transforming professionals regarding the real world.

[Nursing diagnoses in cardiac surgery patients].

Exploratory and transversal research accomplished with postoperative patients outgoing coronary bypass. It was aimed at identifying nursing diagnoses according to Taxonomy II of NANDA and nursing interventions according to Nursing Interventions Classification, associating with the results of Nursing Outcomes Classification. The data were collected fom 22 patients using formularies and physical examination.

[Health education: object of study in dissertations and theses by Brazillian nurses].

This study was aimed at surveying the quantity of dissertations and theses written by nurses on health education, identifying and analyzing their methodological steps. 17 Catalogs of Information about Research and Researchers from CEPEn/ABEn--published from 1979 to 1999--have been examined. The sample comprises 105 dissertations and 15 theses about the theme.