Childbirth care by health professionals: conflicting practices in obstetrics.

Objectives: to understand the perceptions of women and health professionals regarding childbirth care at a teaching hospital in the western state of Paraná, Brazil.

Methods: this qualitative study employed Grounded Theory, conducted in an obstetric care service with 38 participants (women and health professionals) through semi-structured interviews.

Results: limitations in physical infrastructure and management of care, along with the women's limited knowledge about the childbirth process and the decision-making and guidance of professionals, show conflicting obstetric practices-a discrepancy between good practices and obstetric violence.

Cross-cultural nursing care for immigrant women during pregnancy and childbirth: experiences and vulnerabilities.

Objective: To understand the experiences and vulnerabilities for cross-cultural nursing care for immigrant women during pregnancy and delivery.

Method: Exploratory, qualitative research, in the light of the Theory of Diversity and Universality of Cultural Care, in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, through interviews with eight postpartum woman and 18 nurses, between February and September 2022. The interpretation of meanings was adopted for analysis.

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validity study of the "Play Nicely Program: The Healthy Discipline Handbook" for use in Brazil.

Objective: to describe the translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validity process of the "Play Nicely Program: The Healthy Discipline Handbook" for use in Brazil.

Methods: a methodological study that followed the translation, back-translation, expert committee assessment, and pre-test steps. The Content Validity Index (CVI) was calculated for both the judge population and the pre-test population.

Continuity of care for children with chronic conditions after discharge: a constructivist grounded theory.

Objectives: to understand the meaning of continuity of care for children with chronic conditions through transitional care from hospital to home.

Methods: this is a qualitative study, conducted from a Constructivist Grounded Theory perspective. Purposive and theoretical sampling were used to recruit 35 participants, including nurses, professionals from the interprofessional hospital team, and actors responsible for healthcare in the home context.

(Dis)continuation of care of the pre-term newborn at the border.

Objectives: to understand how continuation of care for the preterm newborn in the health care network at the border.

Methods: the Grounded Theory was the methodological framework. Data were collected through 17 semi-structured interviews between July 2016 and March 2017.

Referral and counter-referral: repercussions of coronary artery bypass graft in the perspective of Primary Care.

Objective: to understand how repercussions of the referral and counter-referral of patients with indication/submitted to Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in the context of Primary Health Care.

Method: qualitative research with a theoretical-methodological contribution anchored in the Grounded Theory. Theoretical sampling was performed with 41 participants, divided into three sample groups (patients, health professionals and managers) in the Metropolitan Region and Western Region of Santa Catarina State.

Introduction of the School Health Program in the city of Cascavel, Paraná State: report of nurses.

Objective: to understand the introduction of the School Health Program in the city of Cascavel, Paraná State, as opposed to the report of nurses.

Method: a qualitative study with fifteen participants. The data were collected from April to August 2015, through semi-structured interviews, analyzed by content analysis and thematic modality.

[Meaning the process of living the coronary artery bypass graft surgery: changes in lifestyle].

The study aimed to understand how patients mean your experience process of living after surgical revascularization. Will be presented in this article, a category and seven subcategories that represent significant changes from that experience, that is, the "consequences" component of the paradigm model, according to Grounded Theory, method of study. Participated in data collection 23 subjects The interviews were semi-structured and took place from October 2010 to August 2011.

Understanding the process of living as signified by myocardial revascularization surgery patients.

Objective: To understand the meanings for the process of living, for patients undergoing myocardial revascularization surgery, and to construct an explanatory theoretical model.

Method: Grounded Theory was used, with data collection undertaken between October 2010 and May 2012, in a health institution which specializes in cardiac surgery, located in the south of Brazil. Thirty-three subjects were interviewed (patients, health care professionals and family members), distributed in four sample groups.

[Privacy in critical care units: the patient's rights and implications for nursing professionals].

The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of nursing professionals about the patient's privacy hospitalized in the ICU and their implications. This qualitative study based on content analysis revealed the following categories: Exposing the patients' body and intimacy: the professionals' attitudes and actions; intimacy: difficulties experienced by the professionals and the patients' reactions; the lack of intimacy protection of the patient: contradictions that arise from the practice. The results point to the need for professionals to rethink their achievements in relation to the protection of the patient's privacy, by means of acts/attitudes which provide security in care actions.

Multiple relationships of nursing care: the emergence of care "of the us".

The aim of this qualitative study was to comprehend the relationships of the care of the self, of care of the other, and of care "of the us" in the different dimensions of care, through an educational/reflexive/interpretative process with nursing professionals in a University Hospital, using the complexity perspective. The data were collected through workshops and submitted to content analysis. The following categories emerged: reflecting upon the meaning of care of the self, care of the other, and "of the us" for the "I - human being", and for the "I - nursing professional"; and reflecting and (re)constructing the meanings of the relationships of care for the self, care for the other, and care "for the us".

[Peripherally inserted central catheter: description of its use in neonatal and pediatric ICU].

The purpose of this descriptive, retrospective, documental study is to describe the use of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) in a neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit regarding their insertion, maintenance, and removal. This study also characterized the population which received the catheter through descriptive and statistical analysis of 176 instruments filled out by nurses, in a two year period. The population attended consisted of 125 patients, mainly premature (43.

[Caring for the self, for another, and for 'us' within a complexity perspective].

This study is an experience report of a reflective practice developed with nursing professionals in a public hospital in Santa Catarina, Brazil about the problem of relationships in caring for one's self, another, and for 'us', in different dimensions, within the perspective of the Complexity paradigm. Five workshops were organized and carried out, encompassing three meetings each, with previously chosen themes. From the systematic analysis of the participants' speech content, some units of meaning emerged.

[Understanding care dimensions in an emergency hospital unit].

The objective of this qualitative study was to comprehend the meaning of the nursing care relationships in an emergency unit from the perception of the human receiving care and to provide theoretical subsidies in order to think about the care relationships established in day-to-day nursing work. Nineteen (19) subjects were interviewed in an emergency hospital unit in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The data was submitted to content analysis and interpreted according to complex thought.

[Understanding care dimensions in an emergency hospital unit].

The objective of this qualitative study was to comprehend the meaning of the nursing care relationships in an emergency unit from the perception of the human who receives the care and to provide theoretical subsidies in order to think about the care relationships established in daily nursing work. Nineteen subjects were interviewed in an emergency hospital unit in Santa Catarina, Brazil. The data was submitted to content analysis and interpreted according to complex thought.

[Human relationships in the work environment: lack of self-care among nursing professionals].

This is an exploratory descriptive study with a qualitative approach aimed at understanding the meaning of self care (or carelessness) among nursing professionals, as well as the relationship between taking care of others and self-care. The subjects were nursing professionals working in the health sector. Data were collected by structured and semi-structured interviews and analyzed according to the content analysis method.