Pre-hospital assistance by ambulance in the context of coronavirus infections.

Objective: To reflect on the safe care exercised by the pre-hospital care team by emergency ambulance in times of coronavirus infection.

Method: A reflection and description of how to provide safe care to the patient and the professional during pre-hospital care in times of coronavirus infection.

Results: To ensure the health of all those involved in the care, health professionals who work in pre-hospital care by emergency ambulance should use the recommended Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), such as the use of surgical masks and N95, N99, N100, PFF2 or PFF3, the use of an apron or overall, goggles and face shield, gloves and a hat.

Communication between pre-hospital and intra-hospital emergency medical services: literature review.

Objectives: to analyze, according to the scientific literature, communication strategies in the transfer of cases between pre-hospital and in-hospital services and their contributions to patient safety.

Methods: this is a literature review study, that is, one that aims to gather and synthesize research results on the subject in a systematic and orderly manner.

Results: ten articles were published, published between 2010 and 2018, and two points of discussion emerged: use of mnemonics; and barriers to transferring a case.

Nursing team communication in a medical ward.

Objective: To describe the essential elements that make the nursing team communication process effective, and to analyze such elements in the light of two main theorists, Berlo and King.

Method: This is a qualitative study of assistant convergent research approach. The data production technique was the semi-structured interview, with 25 nursing professionals from a public hospital.

[Nursing staff and communication: contributions to nursing care].

The purpose is the communication process in nursing team. The research is qualitative and descriptive, whose aim is identify the elements that make up the communication process of the nursing team, to analyze the communication strategies used by the team and discuss their influence on nursing care. The theoretical model is applied to the communication process proposed by Berlo.