Pressure injury prevention in older people: construction and validation of an instrument for caregivers.

Objectives: to construct and validate an instrument to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to pressure injury prevention among caregivers of institutionalized older people.

Methods: this is a three-stage methodological study that consisted of instrument construction, analysis by experts, and semantic and appearance analysis, with 78 participants, observing the validation process steps for psychometric instruments in the criteria of clarity and relevance.

Results: in the Delphi I round, the validity index of the general content in the clarity criterion was 0.

Construction of an Ophthalmological Calendar for the Therapeutic Follow-Up of Glaucoma in the Elderly.

Health teams in primary care play a key role in the eye health of users as they understand that early identification of any visual change can result in satisfactory outcomes and better prognoses, preventing damage that is often irreversible to health Building an ophthalmological calendar for the therapeutic follow-up of glaucoma in the elderly, this is a methodological study, as the process of constructing the calendar's content followed the Raymundo theoretical framework. The calendar was built in the following steps: bibliographic survey, content development, transformation of the language of scientific information into easy-to-understand expressions, creation and production of illustrations of the first draft, evaluation of the first draft made by the examining board, diagramming and presentation of the product. The construction of the calendar covers a specific theme for the elderly with glaucoma, which emphasizes the need to invest more in the inclusion of new technologies that will provide greater effectiveness and adherence of the user and the health team for the management of comprehensive care.

Medicines Delivery Proximity Programme (PEMProxi) survey results.

Objectives: To evaluate patients' and community pharmacies' satisfaction towards the Medicines Delivery Proximity Programme (PEMProxi), including patients' level of satisfaction with pharmaceutical services, medication dispensing and delivery, cost, and time saved, community pharmacies' satisfaction with PEMProxi-related information and procedures, contact with the patients, and timings. Additionally, to evaluate patients' and community pharmacies' perception of PEMProxi's advantages and disadvantages.

Methods: Patients and the community pharmacies included in PEMProxi were contacted by telephone to answer a survey.

Burnout among nurses: a multicentric comparative study.

Objetivo: to identify and compare burnout levels between Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian nurses.

Method: quantitative, descriptive, correlational, comparative and cross-sectional study conducted using a sample of 1,052 nurses working in hospitals and primary care centers. A sociodemographic questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory were applied to nurses in Porto, Portugal (n=306), Oviedo, Spain (n=269) and S.

Presenteeism in nurses: comparative study of Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian nurses.

Aim: To compare presenteeism levels among three samples of nurses and to identify the relationship between presenteeism and sociodemographic and professional characteristics.

Background: Presenteeism (going to work ill) is a phenomenon studied from different perspectives, and it has become especially important during the current COVID-19 outbreak; its connection to high healthcare costs, patient safety breaches and negative nurse well-being has been proved.

Introduction: The nursing profession is particularly associated with caring for the culture of teamwork, loyalty to colleagues and professional identity.

[Emphysema and lung volume reduction surgery--a case report].

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has been proposed as a palliative therapy in severe emphysema, with good results in lung function improvement, exercise capacity and quality of life. The authors present a case report of a 34 years old man with severe, heterogeneous lung emphysema submit to bilateral LVRS in 2000 January. Pre-surgical conditions, clinical and radiological evolution after surgery and for a 30 months follow up were analysed.

[Bronchoalveolar lavage in HIV patients].

Lung is the preferential target organ of diseases associated with immunodeficiency virus infection. Taking into consideration that fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FB) with collection of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) is a procedure of the highest utility for the etiological clarification of the pulmonary complications in AIDS patients, the authors carried out a review of the most frequent pathologies in this context and present the most frequent indications for FB with BAL. They also compare the results obtained in an American hospital and in two Portuguese ones.

[Wegener's granulomatosis - a case report].

The Wegener granulomatosis (WG) is a rare vasculite which involves preferentially the upper airways, lungs and kidneys, although it can presents in a multissistemic form. The authors present a clinical case of WG, its diagnostic methodology and respective follow-up from de last two years and half. There are discussed the most often presentation forms of the disease, the importance of histologic results and the contribution of ANCA's determination for disease diagnosis and follow-up.