Multiprofessional round with checklist: association with the improvement in patient safety in intensive care.

Objective: To verify the association between a multiprofessional round with the use of checklists and patient safety practices by health professionals in an intensive care unit.

Method: Mixed-method study, delineated by the sequential explanatory approach, conducted in a hospital in southern Brazil. Quantitative data were analyzed using Poisson regression, and qualitative data, using content analysis.

Judicialization of nursing malpractice in perioperative care, and delivery and birth assistance.

Objectives: to analyze the legal outcomes of malpractices in perioperative care, and delivery and birth assistance related to nursing, from the perspective of legal support for malpractice prevention.

Methods: an exploratory, documentary, qualitative study, based on the cases tried by the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná, available online until April 2018. For the data analysis, we codified the processes and summarized the judicial outcome by the severity of the malpractice.

The hidden experience of nursing professionals sued for error.

Objective: To understand the experience of judicialization due to error from the viewpoint of nursing professionals.

Method: Qualitative study with two nursing professionals sued for error in a state in southern Brazil. The data were collected between January and June 2018 through an online survey and analyzed with the Oral History technique.

Spirituality and practice of the euphemism in the workplace: perceptions of a nursing team.

Objectives: to understand the spirituality and the practice of euphemism experienced by nursing professionals in the hospital scenario.

Methods: a descriptive, exploratory research with a qualitative approach, carried out with 18 nursing professionals from a hospital in southern Brazil. Data collection took place from September to October 2018, through recorded audio interviews.

Coaching Leadership in the context of the Mobile Emergency Care Service.

Objective: To analyze the Coaching Leadership exercised by nursing coordinators in the Mobile Emergency Care Service units, in the coordinators and nursing technicians' perception, in addition to its correlation with three sociodemographic variables.

Method: Descriptive and analytical study carried out on nursing coordinators and nursing technicians from the pre-hospital care units, using the Coaching Leadership questionnaires and the Spearman correlation test to analyze the results.

Results: 11 nursing coordinators and 155 nursing technicians participated in the study.

Interface between accreditation and patient safety: nursing team perspectives.

Objective: To understand the relationship between accreditation and patient safety from the perspective of the nursing team.

Method: A descriptive-exploratory study implementing a qualitative approach. It was developed with nursing workers from two Intensive Care Units in a hospital certified in excellence by Brazilian accreditation.

Essential management competencies of nurses: actions and interactions in the context of the Family Health Strategy.

Objective: to understand the meanings attributed by the Family Health Strategy (FHS) nurses to the management competencies essential to the performance of their actions.

Method: explanatory, qualitative study, whose methodological framework was based on Grounded Theory. A total of 12 Family Health Strategy nurses from a municipality in southern Brazil participated through semi-structured interviews, between December 2018 and February 2019.

Meanings attributed by family and patients to family presence in emergency rooms.

Objective: to understand the process that leads adult and family patients to support family presence in emergency care.

Method: a qualitative study that adopted Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical reference and the Grounded Theory as a methodological framework. The theoretical sample consisted of 15 relatives and 15 patients assisted at two emergency units in the South of Brazil.

Patient safety culture from the perspective of workers and primary health care teams.

Objective: Analyze if the patient safety culture among professionals in the primary health care differs among health care teams.

Methods: Cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted in April and May 2017, in a city in Southern Brazil. A total of 144 professionals who responded to the questionnaire "Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Primary Health Care" participated in the study.

Operation of a hospital palliative care service: a fourth-generation evaluation.

Objective: Qualitatively evaluate the operation of a palliative care service in oncology.

Methodology: Qualitative study conducted in a service in southern Brazil based on a fourth generation evaluation. Between September 2014 and June 2015, 460 hours of operation were observed, and 45 semi-structured interviews and five negotiation meetings were conducted; data were analyzed using the constant comparative method.

Perceptions of nursing professionals about the use of patient safety computerization.

Objective: Getting to know the perceptions of nursing professionals about the use of computerization in promoting patient safety.

Methods: Qualitative research performed at a hospital in the southern region of Brazil. Data collection was performed in November 2016, through a sociodemographic questionnaire and recorded interviews, guided by the question: "Tell me about the relationship between computerization and patient safety in this hospital".

Difficulties to implement patient safety strategies: perspectives of management nurses.

Objective: To understand the difficulties to implement patient safety strategies in the hospital environment from the perspective of nurse managers.

Methods: Descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study, carried out in four public university hospitals, using a semi-structured interview script, from January to March 2015. The sample was of 72 nurses.

Patient safety culture in primary health care: analysis by professional categories.

Objective: To compare the patient safety culture among the professional categories working in Primary Health Care.

Method: A cross-sectional study carried out between April and May 2017 in a municipality in south Brazil, with 144 workers who answered the instrument "Research on Patient Safety Culture for Primary Care". In addition to the descriptive analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare the patient safety culture among the professional categories followed by the post hoc Dunn multiple comparisons test.

Nurses' perspective on health education in Diabetes Mellitus Care.

Objective: to grasp the perspective of nurses on health education in the process of caring for people with Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Care.

Method: a descriptive study of a qualitative nature carried out with 13 nurses from the Family Health Strategy in Southern Brazil. The data were collected in November and December of 2017, through recorded interviews, which were submitted to content analysis, thematic modality.

Advanced practices for care management: reflections on the Brazilian Nursing.

Objective: to explain about the Advanced Nursing Practice and to discuss the possibilities of the Advanced Practice for the management of nursing care in Brazil.

Method: this is a theoretical-reflexive trial, based on the international literature on advanced practices in nursing and analysis relevant to the profession and to the Brazilian context.

Results: the object of the study was described in the following driving axes: Advanced Practice Nurse: international examples and Brazilian reality; Reflections on the care management by the Advanced Practice Nurse in Brazil.

Patient safety: knowledge between multiprofessional residents.

Objective: To assess the knowledge of multiprofesional residents in health about the security of the patient theme.

Methods: Cross-sectional study, quantitative, developed with graduate courses/residence specialties of health in a public university of Paraná, Brazil. Participants (n=78) answered a questionnaire containing nine objective questions related to patient safety.

Management changes resulting from hospital accreditation.

Objective: to analyze managers and professionals' perceptions on the changes in hospital management deriving from accreditation.

Method: descriptive study with qualitative approach. The participants were five hospital quality managers and 91 other professionals from a wide range of professional categories, hierarchical levels and activity areas at four hospitals in the South of Brazil certified at different levels in the Brazilian accreditation system.

Cost of dressings for prevention of sacral pressure ulcers.

Objective: to identify costs of dressings to prevent sacral pressure ulcers in an adult intensive care unit in Paraná, Brazil.

Methods: secondary analysis study with 25 patients admitted between October 2013 and March 2014, using transparent polyurethane film (n=15) or hydrocolloid dressing (n=10) on the sacral region. The cost of each intervention was based on the unit amount used in each type of dressing, and its purchase price (transparent film = R$15.

Accreditation in a public hospital: perceptions of a multidisciplinary team.

Objective: to analyze the perceptions of the multidisciplinary team on Accreditation in a public hospital.

Method: descriptive, exploratory, qualitative research, performed in May 2014, using recorded individual interviews. In total, 28 employees of a public hospital, Accredited with Excellence, answered the guiding question: "Tell me about the Accreditation system used in this hospital".

Prevalence of non-adherence to antihypertensive pharmacotherapy and associated factors.

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of non-adherence to antihypertensive drug treatment and its association with factors bio-socio-economic and welfare.

Method: It was a descriptive, cross-sectional study, performed with 422 hypertensive individuals. Data were collected through home interviews, conducted between December 2011 and March 2012.

[Perception of nurses on the use of computer at the work].

The objective of this study was to apprehend the perception nurses have on the use of computer in the hospital environment. Took part in the study 14 nurses of a public hospital. Collection of data took place through recorded interview and Field Diary.

[Assessment of user embracement with risk rating in emergency hospital services].

Cross-sectional and quantitative study, conducted in 2013, aiming to evaluate the implementation of User Embracement with Risk Rating (ACCR) in four Emergency Hospital Services. One hundred fifty six nurses participated and answered the questionnaire"User Embracement with Risk Rating". The data were treated through descriptive and inferential statistics, from the Kruskal-Wallis test.

Stress level among intensive care nurses in the municipality of Paraná (Brazil).

Objective: To identify stress levels among intensive care nurses who work in the municipality of Western Paraná, Brazil.

Methodology: This is a cross-sectional cohort study, carried out from May to July 2010, included 60 nurses from intensive care units (adult, pediatric, or neonatal) of five hospitals. All participants completed the Bianchi Stress Scale.

[Occupational stress in intensive care nurses who provide direct care to critical patients].

In order to identify the stress level of nurses that provide direct care to critically ill patients, it was carried out a descriptive and exploratory study in five hospitals of the western region of the state of Paraná, Brazil, from May 2010 to July 2010. Fifty-eight intensive nurses participated in the study, whose stress level was evaluated according to the Domain D of Bianchi's Stress Scale. Most (65.