Beliefs and practices of the nursing team related to pressure injury preventive measures: A analysis of social representations.

Aims And Objectives: To analyse the process of elaborating social representations about pressure injury preventive measures by the nursing team (nurses and nurse technicians) and how this process relates to preventive practices for hospitalized patients.

Design: Qualitative study, with the application of the theory of social representations in its procedural methodological approach.

Methods: The study was carried out in an inpatient clinic of a public hospital in the state of Rondônia, Brazil.

Preventive Measures For pressure injuries: structure of social representations of nursing teams.

Objective: To analyze the structure of social representations on the preventive measures to pressure injury of nursing teams.

Method: Qualitative research, based on the structural approach of Social Representations. It was conducted with 103 nursing professionals from a specialized hospital, using the Word Association Test.

COVID-19: psychosociological phenomenon and implications for nursing.

The objective was to reflect on COVID-19 as a phenomenon of social representations and its implications for nursing and health. A theoretical-reflective study, guided by the precepts of social representations. Reading of scientific articles and books on social representations and official data on COVID-19 were sources for further analytical analysis in the light of theory.