Environmental Factors in Nursing Workplaces that Promote Resilience during Pandemics: Scoping Review.

Aim: This scoping review explored the main environmental factors in the workplace that contribute to nursing resilience in respiratory infectious pandemic events.

Background: There is strong evidence in the literature about the influence of individual factors on nurses' resilience and a growing interest on the impact of the workplace environment on these factors. Therefore, a review that synthesizes environmental factors that support nurses' resilience in pandemic events is timely.

The health burden of natural and technological disasters in Brazil from 2013 to 2021.

Disasters deeply impact the health of the affected population and the economy of a country. The health burden of disasters in Brazil is underestimated and more studies are needed to underpin policies and actions for disaster risk reduction. This study analyzes and describes disasters that occurred in Brazil from 2013 to 2021.

[Development of a formative evaluation instrument for the community health worker health agent].

Unlabelled: To validate a formative evaluation instrument of the community health agent.

Design: Methodological study with a quantitative approach.

Location: Carried out in two municipalities in the South of Brazil.

Development and Psychometric Testing of a Tool Measuring Nurses' Competence for Disaster Response.

Introduction: There is a growing awareness among governments, communities, and health care agencies of the need to evaluate roles and competencies in disaster nursing. A validated instrument was developed to evaluate nurses' competencies for disaster response.

Methods: A psychometric evaluation study was developed in 2 stages: 1) content and face validity, and 2) verification of feasibility and reliability with test-retest.

Critical Requirements for Nursing Practice in Rural Disasters Caused by Floods.

Objective: To identify critical requirements for nursing practice when responding to hydrological disasters in the rural area.

Method: A descriptive, exploratory and qualitative study was developed. The Critical Incidents Technique was adopted.

Sexual and reproductive health: team competences in Primary Health Care services.

Sexual and reproductive health rights were developed recently as a result from the movements held for Human Rights and citizenship. Delimitations of this subject have not been explored in Brazil yet, even though the importance of developing skills related to this subject is recognized. This paper aims to construct a Sexual and Reproductive health transversal skills framework based on specialists' point of view.

Indicators and Measurement Tools for Health Systems Integration: A Knowledge Synthesis.

Background: Despite far reaching support for integrated care, conceptualizing and measuring integrated care remains challenging. This knowledge synthesis aimed to identify indicator domains and tools to measure progress towards integrated care.

Methods: We used an established framework and a Delphi survey with integration experts to identify relevant measurement domains.

Tailoring curricula to fit health professionals needs in a disaster: a proposal for Brazilian nurses.

Introduction Education and training are the cornerstones of disaster preparedness and best curricula and training programs are competency-based. Objective This paper presents a proposal to be applied in nursing curricula in Brazil, based on the National Curriculum Guidelines and the recommendations for integrating skills and competencies into undergraduate curricula proposed by the World Health Organization. Results Comparison of competencies sets was conducted to indicate the specific competencies to be included as essential for Brazilian nurses.

Developing Legacy: Health Planning in the Host City of Porto Alegre for the 2014 Football World Cup.

Aim: To describe the process adopted to identify, classify, and evaluate legacy of health care planning in the host city of Porto Alegre for the Football World Cup 2014.

Background: There is an emerging interest in the need to demonstrate a sustainable health legacy from mass gatherings investments. Leaving a public health legacy for future host cities and countries is now an important part of planning for these events.

[Professional competencies in primary health care for attending to older adults].

Objective: To identify and analyze the necessary competencies in primary health care for attending to older adults.

Method: An exploratory, descriptive, and quali-quantitative study was developed. Three rounds of the Delphi Technique were conducted with participants from primary health care services and a multidisciplinary committee.

[A creative and sensitive way to research].

This experience report describes the application of Creative Sensitive Method in a qualitative exploratory-descriptive research. Its theoretical foundation and the way this method was applied objectively presented through the following stages: introduction, production, presentation, discussion and evaluation. Finally, one can argue that the method, among others pathways, is a good alternative methodology for generating data in collective spaces for application in qualitative research related to nursing or others health contexts.

Competencies for preceptorship in the Brazilian health care system.

Background: Preceptorship is an emerging component of the Brazilian health care system for human resources education. This study attempted to identify competencies for preceptorship in this system.

Methods: An exploratory descriptive study was conducted with the Delphi technique.

[The performance of family health nurses in home care].

This study aimed at identifying the performance of Family Health Strategy (FHS) nurses in home care. It consists of an exploratory descriptive study using a qualitative approach. Six FHS nurses from a health district of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were interviewed.

[Nurse's competencies for clinic screening of blood donors].

This investigation aimed at identifying nurse's competencies necessary to screen blood donors, from those recommended by the International Council of Nurses. A qualitative, descriptive case study was developed at the Hemotherapy Service blood bank of a teaching hospital in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Twenty Five interviews performed by five nurses hired by the service were observed.

[Essential public health functions in the nursing curriculum at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul].

The Pan American Health Organization referential of Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) was developed to improve public health performance, which depends on professional education. A case study with the objective of identifying the insertion of EPHF in the curriculum of the nursing undergraduate course at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul was developed. Keywords were defined from the definitions of the eleven EPHF.

[The use of the Delphi technique for competencies investigation: an experience report].

The Delphi technique has been used in nursing research, with electronic means as an option. This article has the objective of reporting researchers' experience on the application of this technique in a study about nurses' competencies for the performance of Essential Public Health Functions. Experts were searched on the Lattes Platform of the National Council of Scientific and Technologic Development (CNPq) in Brazil.

Telenursing in primary health care: report of experience in southern Brazil.

The Rio Grande do Sul Telematics and Telehealth kernel in Brazil, aims to enhance the quality of the Unified Health System (UHS) in support of primary health care (PHC) services, most of them engaged in the Family Health Program (FHP). Among the initiatives of the TeleHealth Rio Grande do Sul, there is consulting via e-mail and videoconference. They are requested and answered using specific forms available on TeleHealth's intranet.

[Lesion severity and characteristics of motorcycle riders cared at an emergency hospital].

In Brazil, the motorcycle fleet has greatly increased, and consequently, also the risk of exposure to accidents by the riders. This cross-sectional study of the subtype "groups under treatment" aimed at studying the relation between the most frequent lesions suffered by victims of motorcycle accidents cared at the Emergency Hospital of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and the victims' characteristics. The sample included 90 motorcycle riders.

Identification of nurses' competencies in primary health care through a Delphi study in southern Brazil.

Objective: This investigation aimed to identify and analyze the general and specific competencies of nurses in the primary health care practice of Brazil.

Design: The Delphi Technique was used as the method of study.

Sample: 2 groups of participants were selected: One contained primary health care nurses (n=52) and the other specialists (n=57), including public health nurses and public or community health faculty.

[Nursing teaching as a space for the development of health education technologies].

This article consists of a report on the experience of creating a new health educational technology against smoking invented by an academic of the Nursing School Graduation Course. The construction involved a problem solving methodology, with the participation of teachers, students, smokers and the community, in a constant process of teaching and learning, based on numberless interactions with the creative and critic responses obtained. It became clear that this technology is a powerful tool in the combat of smoking and that it can be adapted to different issues.

[Health professional competencies in relation to essential public health functions: contribution to the design of pedagogical projects in nursing].

The development of competencies among health professionals in relation to the Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) is part of a number of initiatives that are meant to face the need for services that can lead to the resolution of health problems, considering the transformations occurred in the health sector and in the workplace. This article's objective is to make a theoretical reflection on the theme of professional competencies, so that we can contribute to the development of political-pedagogical projects for health training and primarily for nursing training. For that matter, we introduce the competency-based model.

[The CIPESC-Brazil Project: characterization of nursing in Porto Alegre].

This paper was written using data collected to characterize the labor force of nursing and its developed practices on a major project called "Project of Classification of Nursing Practices in Collective Health in Brazil". The study took place at the Sanitary Districts V and VI of Porto Alegre. The data was collected in 1998, through the application of two forms.