Telenursing contributions in Primary Health Care in the COVID-19 pandemic context: an integrative review.

Objective: to identify telenursing contributions in Primary Health Care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: an integrative literature review, conducted between January and August 2022 in the PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS, BDENF, Scopus, WoS, EMBASE and SciELO databases. A total of 493 studies was found, 62 were read in full, and of these, 16 were selected.

Collective prenatal care facilitated by educational technology: perception of pregnant women.

This article aims to explore the perception of pregnant women regarding collective prenatal care facilitated by educational technology, in the light of complexity thinking. Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study conducted between August and November 2022. The participants were 19 pregnant women from a Family Health Strategy in the central region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

Nursing care management in radiation protection in interventional radiology.

Objective: To reflect on the elements of nursing care management in radiological protection in interventional radiology.

Methodology: A reflection paper based on national and international articles and laws addressing the nursing care management issue and radiological protection in interventional radiology.

Results: From the conceptions of nursing care management and professional practice, the following elements were perceived in this management: expertise and applicability of the radiological protection principles, biological effects of ionizing radiation, occupational dose monitoring, personal and collective protective equipment, patient safety, training in radiological protection, quality assurance program.

Nursing care as a systemic and entrepreneurial phenomenon.

The objective is to produce a critical-reflexivity analysis of nursing care, from the perspective of complexity thinking and social entrepreneurship. Theoretical-reflective study, supported by the framework of complexity thinking and social entrepreneurship. The main characteristics that lead and support nursing care are analyzed from a systemic-entrepreneurial perspective.

Complexity of high-risk pregnancy care in the health care network.

Objective: To understand the complexity of high-risk care for pregnant women in the health care network.

Method: Qualitative study with theoretical framework of Edgar Morin's Complex Thought and Grounded Theory methodology, Strauss's version. Data collection by theoretical sampling, including twelve health professionals and seven women users of the care network in a municipality in the south of Brazil from July to October 2018.

Kangaroo Method: potentialities, barriers and difficulties in humanized care for newborns in the Neonatal ICU.

Objective: To identify the potentialities, barriers and difficulties for the implementation of humanized care from the perspective of the Kangaroo Method.

Methods: Integrative literature review with a time cut from 02/01/2015 to 06/01/2019, totaling ten articles in the final sample.

Results: The findings were categorized into two categories: Potentialities for humanized care from the perspective of the Kangaroo Method; Barriers or difficulties to the implementation of the Kangaroo Method.

Products and technologies for treating patients with evidence-based pressure ulcers.

Objective: to identify products/technologies for treating patients with pressure ulcers with an evidence level 1.

Method: this is an integrative literature review. A survey of studies was carried out using the United States National Library of Medicine Portal, Scientific Electronic Library Online, Virtual Health Library, National Library of Medicine(®), The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Latin American and Caribbean in Health Sciences, Nursing Database.

The Learning Incubator: an innovative teaching and learning technology in nursing.

Objective: To understand the meaning of the Learning Incubator as a teaching and learning technology in the nursing area.

Method: Qualitative research, supported by grounded theory. Data was collected from March to November 2019, through interviews with guiding questions and hypotheses directed at two different groups.

Working conditions of Nursing professionals in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Objective: To trigger a reflection on the current working conditions of Nursing professionals in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Method: A theoretical-reflective study supported by studies from the Marxist perspective, national and international scientific articles, and official documents from the World Health Organization and the Federal Nursing Council.

Results: The daily work of Nursing professionals in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic presents unfavorable working conditions in Brazil and worldwide, with emphasis on the deficit of professionals, overload of activities, low pay, and personal protective equipment, often insufficient and inadequate, conditions that can lead to exhaustion, illness and death.

Immunochromatography and laboratory serologies: an evaluation of immunodiagnoses in prenatal care.

Objectives: to describe the use of affinity chromatographies and laboratory serologies in the evaluation of immunodiagnoses during prenatal.

Methods: quantitative study, characterized as a descriptive observational research. Data was collected from the records of 46 pregnant women who were in prenatal follow up in the Primary Health Care in a capital in the South of Brazil.

The entrepreneurial nursing care inducing healthy practices in vulnerable communities.

Objective: To understand the meaning of entrepreneurial nursing care as inducer of healthy practices in vulnerable communities.

Method: Grounded theory, whose data collection took place between March and December 2019, from interviews with 19 participants from the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and comparative data analysis.

Results: The phenomenon was delimited: Experiencing small/big transformations in the invisibility of everyday life in promoting healthy practices in vulnerable communities.

New coronavirus: what does nursing have to learn and teach in times of a pandemic?

Objective: To promote a theoretical reflective analysis of what nursing has to learn and teach to global society in times of OVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Reflective theoretical essay aimed at contributing new knowledge and raising new questions, based on the assumptions of Edgar Morin's complexity thinking, subsidized by readings of texts extracted from electronic databases, as well as speeches by health professionals available in open communication tools.

Results: COVID-19 reiterates that the biological warfare of the current pandemic is not fought with nuclear or fire weapons, but with care in its multiple dimensions: physical, emotional, spiritual, family, social, political and economic.

Nursing entrepreneur care in social inequity contexts.

Objectives: to identify emancipatory strategies to strengthen the social protagonism of recyclable materials collectors in the light of entrepreneurial Nursing care.

Methods: qualitative study carried out in two stages: field approach from healthcare interventions in a Recycling Materials Association, and individual interviews conducted between October and December 2018.

Results: the analysis resulted in three thematic categories: Social contribution of recyclable materials collectors; From the assistentialist perception to entrepreneurial Nursing care; Emancipatory strategies of recycling work.

Applying best practices to pregnant women in the obstetric center.

Objective: To identify the meaning attributed by nursing technicians to good care practices based on scientific evidence used with the pregnant women during the dilation stage of labor.

Method: A qualitative study, based on Grounded Theory principles. Twelve interviews with nursing technicians attending labor in the obstetric center of two public hospitals, in Florianópolis/SC, were performed, from August of 2016 to March of 2017.

Perceptions of pregnant women about prenatal care in primary health care.

Objective: To understand the perceptions of pregnant women about the care received during prenatal care, in the field of primary health care.

Method: Qualitative study, based on Grounded Theory. Data collection was performed from August to December 2016, through a semi-structured interview with 12 pregnant women who received prenatal care in the city of Florianópolis/SC/Brazil.

Management of prenatal nursing care at a Health Center in Angola.

Objective: To understand how care management in prenatal care in a Care Center in Angola happens.

Method: A qualitative study, which used the Constructivist Grounded Theory (GT) as a methodological framework. The theoretical sample consisted of 22 participants, including nursing professionals, pregnant women and nursing students from Huambo, Angola.

Nursing students in the community: entrepreneurial strategy and proponent of changes.

Objective: To report the insertion of the nursing students of the Franciscan University Center in the community through the project Adopting a Family, contributing to critical thinking within the Nursing academic production and its articulation to collective health.

Results: In the professors' evaluation, the activity represented an effective articulation and insertion of the university in the community; for the students, it allowed for spaces of construction, deconstruction and negotiation with the unknown and the uncertain; for the families, it enabled the feeling of being remembered and valued as human beings and citizens. Through the experiences had, the transformation of health practices goes through the emergence and valuation of new knowledge.

Good practices of labor and birth care from the perspective of health professionals.

Objective: Determine the understanding of health professionals of an obstetric hospital regarding the good practices of labor and birth care recommended by the World Health Organization.

Method: Research-initiative, with data collection between April and July 2016 using the focal group technique, with 27 health professionals of an obstetric hospital of Rio Grande do Sul with 21 hospitalization beds.

Results: Three thematic categories were achieved: good obstetric practices and their meanings; from the biological character to singular and multidimensional care; from the punctual and fragmented conception to the labor and birth care network.

Data analysis: comparison between the different methodological perspectives of the Grounded Theory.

Grounded Theory (GT) has undergone many transformations since its proposition as a research method in the 1960s. As a result of these changes, three different GT approaches have been outlined: classic, straussian and constructivist ground theory, each with its peculiarities, but mainly concerning data analysis. Thus, this study aimed to describe and compare the data analysis process adopted by the different methodological perspectives of GT.

Portable bathtub: technology for bed bath in bedridden patients.

Objective: determine the benefits of the Portable Bathtub as technology for bed bath in bedridden patients.

Method: qualitative research of exploratory-descriptive character, whose data were collected by means of 30 interviews with patients, family members and professionals directly involved in bed bath, carried out with Portable Bathtub, in bedridden patients of a medical clinic, from July to December 2015.

Results: from the data encoded by thematic content analysis resulted two categories: Portable Bathtub: from morphine to the patient's rekindled eyes; From mechanized practice to unique, transforming care.

Learning Incubator: an instrument to foster entrepreneurship in Nursing.

Objective: this study aimed to know the contributions of the Learning Incubator to the process of lifelong education in health.

Method: this is a qualitative field research whose data was collected from August to December 2014 by the focus group technique. The research had 34 employees of a Teaching Hospital in the central region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul that participated previously in the incubation process.

The Living, Dynamic and Complex Environment Care in Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: to understand the meaning of the Adult Intensive Care Unit environment of care, experienced by professionals working in this unit, managers, patients, families and professional support services, as well as build a theoretical model about the Adult Intensive Care Unit environment of care.

Method: Grounded Theory, both for the collection and for data analysis. Based on theoretical sampling, we carried out 39 in-depth interviews semi-structured from three different Adult Intensive Care Units.

[Nursing undergraduate education in relation to the death-dying process: perceptions in light of the complex thinking].

The objective of this study was to perceive the death-dying process from the perspective of nursing students. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research study. Data were collected between June and July 2013, from three focus groups with six nursing students at a University Center located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

The Idealized Brazilian Health System versus the real one: contributions from the nursing field.

Objective: to identify the perceptions of professionals working in a facility connected with the Brazilian Unified Health System - SUS in regard to what they know, think and talk about public health policy.

Method: this exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative nature was conducted with 28 professionals working in a facility connected with the SUS. Data were collected through interviews with guiding questions and analyzed through the thematic content analysis technique.

[From nursing nightingalean pattern to Luhmann's social system: theoretical study].

The purpose of this study, of a theoretical nature, was to analyze and discuss a possible binary code for the Nursing system, in the sense of identifying its own knowledge from the perspective of Niklas Luhmann's theoretical presuppositions. To bet on functionally differentiated and socially relevant communication for the nursing system implies transcending the traditional health-disease code, predominant in the health system, whose socially relevant communication is the disease. Furthermore, it implies in investing proactively in the promotion and protection of healthy living of individuals, families and communities, so that health will be the central point of discussions and interventions.