Brazilian nursing specific situation, middle and micro-range theories: a bibliometric study.

Objectives: to map the nursing theories developed in stricto sensu graduate programs in nursing in Brazil.

Methods: a bibliometric study, carried out on the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel Theses and Dissertations Portal in October 2023. The controlled descriptors "Nursing Theory" and "Nursing Models" and the uncontrolled descriptors "Theories" and "Middle-Range Theory" were used.

Benchmarking mobile applications for the health of people with Diabetes Mellitus.

Objective: to map the content and features of mobile applications on the management of Diabetes Mellitus and their usability on the main operating systems.

Method: benchmarking research. The mapping of apps, content, and resources on the Play Store and App Store platforms was based on an adaptation of the Joanna Briggs Institute's scoping review framework.

Clinical validity of the nursing diagnosis risk for unstable blood glucose level in persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A case-control study.

Objective: To assess clinical-causal validity evidence of the nursing diagnosis, risk for unstable blood glucose level (00179), in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Methods: A case-control study was conducted in 5 primary healthcare units, involving 107 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus, 60 in the case group and 47 in the control group. Causality was determined by the association between sociodemographic and clinical factors, risk factors related to the nursing diagnosis, and the occurrence of unstable blood glucose level.

Architectural accessibility and perception of falls of elderly people in the peridomicile: mixed method.

Objective: To describe contents, structure and origin of social representations about falls by elderly people, the peridomiciliary structural conditions that predispose to falls, and to relate the implications of these empirical evidence on the routine of the elderly in the architectural context.

Method: Convergent mixed method by triangulation. Qualitative approaches(structural, n=195 and procedural, n=40of the Theory of Social Representations) and quantitative (descriptive sectional, n=183) were used.

Interdependence in the therapeutic compliance of hypertensive older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to analyze stimuli and behaviors related to interdependence and their implications for compliance with the therapeutic regimen of older adults with hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: a multiple case, qualitative study, carried out with fifteen older adults treated at a Family Health Strategy unit. A characterization instrument and semi-structured interview were used for data collection.

Risk for Imbalanced Blood Glucose Pattern: Construct Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis Proposal.

To identify a clinical judgment of susceptibility referring to the development of glycemic fluctuations in adults with Diabetes Mellitus undergoing treatment. Theoretical study with construct analysis. The exploration of the phenomena of glycemic variations provided clues for the description of the blood glucose pattern construct and the proposal of a new risk Nursing diagnosis as a judgment of susceptibility to the balance of this pattern.

Medium reach theory for nursing in cardiovascular rehabilitation.

Objectives: to describe a medium-range nursing theory for the cardiovascular rehabilitation process.

Methods: theoretical development study, addressing the elaboration of medium-range theory, based on Roy's Adaptation Model, which combined theoretical deduction with induction strategies, based on literature review and concept analysis.

Results: the Medium-Range Theory for Nursing in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation presents eleven concepts and respective definitions, organized in relationships that represent elements, through modeling and image representation.

Guideline for incorporating the Delphi method in the evaluation of nursing theories.

Objective: to describe a guideline for the use of the Delphi method to evaluate nursing theories, from the perspective of internal validation.

Method: a methodological study, targeted at the development of a guideline for the use of the Delphi method in the evaluation of nursing theories.

Results: the Delphi method, principles of collective wisdom and levels of proficiency are used in the production of a guideline for organizing, searching, selecting and coordinating the activities of theoretical evaluators in teams.

Correlation Between Functional Health Literacy and Self-efficacy in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Cross-sectional Study.

To analyze the correlation between functional health literacy (FHL) and self-efficacy (SE) in people with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Cross-sectional study was conducted among September and October 2019, with 196 people with type 2 diabetes. Data were collected using the (B-TOFHLA) and the (DMSES).

Social identity of transgender persons: concept analysis and proposition of nursing diagnoses.

Objective: To analyze the concept of social identity of transgender persons and develop nursing diagnoses related to it.

Methods: A concept analysis according to the Walker and Avant model. A scope review was carried out with a search of eight databases, a portal and two information systems, during June and July 2019.

Risk factors for hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in adults with pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes mellitus: a quantitative systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to identify and synthesize the risk factors for hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia in adults with pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes mellitus in any scenarios and environments for health care.

Introduction: Studies around the world have investigated which factors are associated with episodes of alteration of blood glucose level. It is through the characterization of these factors that nurses can plan and intervene accurately in the control of serum glucose levels in people with diabetes.

Evidence of nursing patterns of knowing communicated by the brazilian press before Florence Nightingale's model.

Objective: to identify evidence of nursing patterns of knowing disseminated by the Brazilian press before the implementation of Florence Nightingale's model in Brazil and categorize topics of journalistic articles according to Carper's and White's patterns of knowing.

Methods: categorical content analysis of materials related to Florence Nightingale, published in Brazil between 1850 and 1919, collected at Hemeroteca Digital. Four analysts identified themes of journalistic article, performing classification in patterns of knowing.

Nursing theories in the conceptual expansion of good practices in nursing.

Objective: To discuss the contribution of nursing theories in the conceptual expansion of good practices in the area for the construction of the unified health system (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS).

Method: Theoretical production of reflection, based on the neomodern framework of philosophy of science.

Results: The knowledge and political, social and epistemological commitments of nursing are discussed, highlighting the relationship of the theories with good practices for the construction and application of knowledge in the area in the context of the Brazilian health care system.

V diagram as a tool for analytical integration of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological knowledge in health care.

Objective: To produce a reflection on the ability of the V diagram to integrate theoretical, conceptual, and methodological knowledge obtained from complex, non-explicitly identifiable systems, models, and theories.

Methods: Reflection study with an analytical characteristic.

Results: The V Diagram is presented as an instrument that can ensure an integrated analysis between theoretical and conceptual knowledge (worldview and philosophy, theories, principles, constructs, and concepts), and the analysis or production of methodological knowledge (data records, transformations, knowledge assertions, and value assertions).