Cad Saude Publica
December 2022
Primary health care requires work processes guided by collaborative inter-professional action to respond to health care needs. The Expanded Family Health and Basic Healthcare Center (NASF-AB) acts as an important device to expand the possibilities of care in this scenario. This study aims to describe the process of constructing a theoretical-logical model and judgment matrix to evaluate the effectiveness of the NASF-AB.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To present a reflection on the importance of logical thinking for clinical nursing care.
Method: Reflection paper.
Reflection: The exercise of an effective clinical care brings with it the need for logical thinking and adequate reasoning for safe and effective nursing practices.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused tremendous disruption of health systems worldwide. Patients with diabetes are at a high risk of COVID-19 exposure because face-to-face consultations have been standard for diabetes management. This study describes the development and validation of a mobile application for nursing students on diabetes education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To evaluate the effectiveness of educational digital technology in improving patients' and health professionals' knowledge about diabetes management.
Background: The use of digital technologies has been expanding in recent years in several areas of healthcare and education.
Design: Integrative literature review.
Rev Esc Enferm USP
November 2021
Objective: To map evidence on the use of digital technologies in the care of people with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method: This is a scoping review, based on the JBI manual, which included scientific articles and gray literature from nine primary and seven secondary databases. Articles were independently assessed by two reviewers.
Objective: To recognize the domains of competencies in promoting health in the environmental education practices performed by community health agents.
Method: A mixed study, which adopted the Developing Competencies and Professional Standards for Health Promotion Capacity Building in Europe (CompHP) as a theoretical framework, conducted in Crato, Ceará, with 16 community health agents, based on semi-structured interviews and data organization through the ALCESTE software.
Results: The following domains of competencies in health promotion were evidenced: partnership, possibility of changes, and diagnosis.
Objectives: to understand the health promotion skills found in the speeches of health practitioners in care for TB patients.
Methods: qualitative study, developed with seven practitioners involved in care for TB patients, identified from a sociocentric approach, whose speeches were submitted to analysis based on the health promotion skills model in the Galway Consensus.
Results: there were four domains: Catalyzing change; Leadership; Planning; and Partnerships.
Objective: to analyze the temporal trend and epidemiological patterns of leprosy indicators in Sobral, a municipality countryside of the state of Ceará, from 2001 to 2016.
Method: a time series study based on data from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System. The time trend analysis was performed using the join point regression model.
Objective: to discuss, taking for reference the crisis in Brazil and its impact on public health policies, the insertion of Brazilian nursing in that context and its ways of practicing the profession, based on the study about the politicality of care.
Method: the reflection is divided into two topics, the first is about public policies, the Brazilian Unified Health System and the deconstruction of the right to health with neoliberal offensive; and the second is about the nursing political action in the fight for the right to health and for democracy.
Final Considerations: we emphasize that nursing must assume its sociopolitical role to contribute to the construction of a better and fairer Brazil, saying no to neoliberal reforms, as well as fighting for rights already acquired and for the resumption of the democratic stability in the country.
Objective: To analyze, in the speeches of nurses, the habitus that conforms their professional identity in the primary health care area.
Method: Qualitative study, carried out from March to October 2015, with nurses of primary healthcare units in the cities of Cajazeiras, in the state of Paraíba, and Maracanaú, in the state of Ceará. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews, and analyzed through discourse analysis.
Cien Saude Colet
January 2018
The National Health Promotion Policy (PNPS) is based on the broadened concept of health and presents the promotion of health as a set of strategies and ways of promoting health, both individually and collectively with responsibilities for the three federated entities. The scope of this study was to develop an evaluability assessment of the PNPS. It is a qualitative-based evaluability assessment conducted in a health region in the Brazilian Northeast in the year 2013.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze the concept of disruptive behavior in healthcare work.
Method: An integrative review carried out in the theoretical phase of a qualitative research substantiated by the theoretical framework of the Hybrid Model of Concept Development. The search for articles was conducted in the CINAHL, LILACS, PsycINFO, PubMed and SciVerse Scopus databases in 2013.
Objective: To evaluate intervening factors in patient safety, focusing on hospital nursing staff.
Method: The study is descriptive, with qualitative approach, excerpt from a larger study with analytical nature. It was undertaken in a public hospital in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, between January and June 2013, with semi-structured interviews to 70 nurses, using Thematic Content Analysis.
The objective was to identify the features and the management of chronic pain associated to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) from the perspective of nurses and doctors. Qualitative study conducted at a reference hospital in Fortaleza- CE, Brazil, with 20 professionals. It was applied semi-structured interview and the speeches were analyzed using content analysis of Bardin, emerging three categories: Characterization of pain, Clinical evaluation of pain and Clinical care of pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study was to analyze the structure for the management of pain in patients with AIDS in a reference hospital in Fortaleza, Brazil. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, developed in 2010. Twenty interviews were performed with health care professionals (physicians and nurses), and analyzed according to the methodology of content analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntegrative Community Therapy (ICT) is an instrument of care that allows us to make social networks and prevent mental suffering. This paper aimed to report an experience of implementation of ICT by nurse in the Family Health Strategy, carried out from September 2008 to April 2009, at the Alto Jerusalem community, in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, as part of a training course of Integrative Therapist Community. The report was divided into phases: awareness of managers and health professionals and training strategies of the groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article aims to make a critical-reflexive analysis about the nursing auditory, observing its limits and possibilities as well as its theoretical and practical aspects. The nursing auditory, nowadays, is practiced and advertised in public and private institutions, aiming to minimize material, medication, equipment and human resources loss. It is important to mention the presence of the nursing group which was fundamental to the auditory process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose was to analyse the managerial work of the nurse, to know nurses' actions, to verify the importance towards the planning and to identify some factors that interfere in the management. A descriptive research was accomplished in 10 basic health units in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, with 10 nurses. Data collection was carried aout in january 2008, by means of a structured interview.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis reflection intended to analyze the counselling starting from the vision of the Freire's pedagogy visualizing it in a wider way, as an education activity, an intervention act for the subject's autonomy. The counselling is an activity developed by a Health professional, properly, and it is destined to who has indication of accomplishing the anti-HIV. In the ambit of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, the counselling contains three components: the emotional support to the customer; educational support; and evaluation of risks, that propitiates the reflection on values, attitudes and conducts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt was aimed to analyze the research tendency developed by nursing in international scope. Obtained data of two nursing journals were analyzed from the total of 104 articles, being 58 of the Nursing and Health Sciences and 48 of the Journal of Research in Nursing published in the period of 2005 the 2006. The most investigated thematic areas are: professional formation (19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed at verifying the expectations of patients with HIV serum-positive patients, regarding to nursing care. This is a study with qualitative approach developed in the inpatient unit of a state public hospital in the municipal district of Fortaleza, CE. Data were collected in the period of September to October of 2003 through semi-structured interview, applied to 12 patients, randomly selected among the patients with diagnosis of HIV/AIDS.
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