Experiences and expectations of nurses in caring for organ donors and their families.

Objective Understand the experiences and expectations of intensive care unit nurses in caring for organ donors and their families. Method Qualitative research, with a social phenomenological approach, conducted in 2013 with 20 nurses. Results The experiences of the nurses with the families of donors were represented by two categories: obstacles encountered and interventions performed in the care of the donors' families.

Humanization of health care in the perception of nurses and physicians of a private hospital.

Objective Exploratory, descriptive, qualitative study aimed at checking the meaning of the term humanization for nurses and physicians at a private hospital in the city of São Paulo and identify factors that hinder and facilitate humanization in care. Method Exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative study conducted with 19 health care professionals. After data collection, the reports were categorized according to the method proposed by Bardin and analyzed within the theoretical framework of humanization.

Experience of nurses in the process of donation of organs and tissues for transplant.

Objective: to investigate the meaning of the action of nurses in the donation process to maintain the viability of organs and tissues for transplantation.

Method: this qualitative study with a social phenomenological approach was conducted through individual interviews with ten nurses of three Organ and Tissue Procurement Services of the city of São Paulo.

Results: the experience of the nurses in the donation process was represented by the categories: obstacles experienced in the donation process, and interventions performed.

Digital fluency and the use of virtual environments: the characterization of nursing students.

The objective of this study was to characterize the profile of nursing undergraduate students, identify their digital fluency, knowledge, ability and interest in using virtual learning environments. This quantitative, exploratory-descriptive study, was performed with 51 nursing undergraduate students. Data collection was performed using a questionnaire.

[Perception of nurses about ethical dilemmas related to terminal patients in intensive care units].

The purpose of this study was to learn about nurses' perception about ethical dilemmas in nursing care for terminal patients in the context of a general hospital ICU in the city of São Paulo, and what they take into account when making decisions. The study was performed through interviews with ten nurses working at the ICU, using a qualitative approach based on content analysis. Ethical dilemmas were found to be linked to: diversity of values; presence of terminal patients at the ICU; uncertainties aboutterminality and the limits of intervention to prolong the patients' lives; disagreements in decision-making; non-acceptance of the process of dying by the patients' families and the lack of clarifications for the patient and the family.

Family refusal to donate organs and tissue for transplantation.

This study aimed to discover how potential eligible donor families perceive the decision-making process to refuse organ and tissue donation for transplantation. A qualitative research was performed in order to understand the families' perception, based on the situated-phenomenon structure. Eight family members were interviewed, with four themes and fourteen subthemes emerging from the analysis of the statements.

[Changes in the care of the elderly after the enactment of the elderly statute according to professionals of a geriatric hospital].

This study was aimed at finding out how an interdisciplinary team deals with the Elderly Statute and how it interfered in the care of institutionalized elderly. The setting was a geriatric hospital in Sio Paulo where 297 elderly people reside. Thirty-five professionals from the facility's interdisciplinary team took part in the study and answered a questionnaire with open and close questions.

[Aesthetic procedures: client's perception regarding the information given for the decision making process].

This research verified client's perception regarding the information given and freedom of choice for the decision making process related to aesthetic procedures. It was carried out with a sample of 44 clients of the clinic where the study was conducted. Data collection was based on 28 propositions classified in three categories: Information, Competence and Freedom, and two scales to measure client's perception concerning the elucidation of the information provided and freedom of choice.

[Organ donation process: perception by relatives of cadaverous donors].

This study aimed to disclose how relatives of cadaverous donors perceive the organ donation process for transplantation. A phenomenological, qualitative research was carried out on the basis of the "situated-phenomenon structure". The statements revealed that, for the relatives of the donors, the process of donation begins with the patients' hospital admission and only ends when they are buried.

[Nurses' attitude towards revealing the prognosis of no treatment possibility: a matter of bioethics].

This study aims to get to know nurses' attitude and participation when they have to inform a patient about a prognosis of no treatment possibility. Twenty-five nurse practitioners from a general public school hospital took part in this study. Data were collected through interviews and were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, showing the following results: 40% of the nurses did not take a stand when informing about a prognosis of no treatment possibility; 56% did not take any part in the decision of informing the patient about the prognosis of no treatment possibility.