Physical and psychological changes of the COVID-19 infodemic by the older adult population.

Objective: to analyze the physical and psychological changes of the COVID-19 infodemic for the older adult population of Rio de Janeiro.

Method: a cross-sectional, web-based survey to find out about access to news and information about COVID-19 among older adult in Rio de Janeiro, between July and December 2020. Univariate analysis and bivariate analysis were carried out using non-parametric statistical methods.

Telenursing with elderly people in home care service during the COVID-19 pandemic: quasi-experimental study.

Objective: to evaluate telenursing as a support technology in the transition of care for elderly people and their caregivers in the context of home care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method: quasi-experimental before-after, non-randomized study, with 219 elderly people and caregivers from the home care service, divided into 131 in the intervention groups and 88 in the control group. Analytical treatment, descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out.

Concept analysis of "Insufficient health literacy" in older adults and refinement of a diagnosis proposal.

Purpose: This study aims to conduct a thorough analysis of the concept of insufficient health literacy (IHL) in older adults and to refine a nursing diagnosis proposal while considering the specific characteristics of this demographic.

Methods: A comprehensive concept analysis was undertaken using Walker & Avant's method as a framework.

Findings: A systematic search across seventeen databases yielded 29 relevant studies for inclusion.

Compromised end-of-life syndrome in cancer patients: A clinical validation study.

Purpose: To identify the prevalence of the nursing diagnosis of compromised end-of-life syndrome in patients in end-of-life care.

Methods: This is a clinical validation based on a cross-sectional epidemiological clinical study conducted at the National Cancer Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The defining characteristics of a syndrome diagnosis were identified, defined as a "subset of nursing diagnoses," using sensitivity and specificity measures through the application of latent class statistical methods.

Quality improvement in the implementation science paradigm in professional programs: scoping review.

Objective: To map knowledge regarding Quality Improvement in the implementation science paradigm in graduate nursing education in professional programs.

Method: This is a scoping review, conducted from October to December 2021, following the assumptions established by the Joanna Briggs Institute and the PRISMA-ScR protocol.

Results: 18 studies were selected.

Systematization of Nursing Care: how did the concept mature?

Objectives: to analyze the Systematization of Nursing Care conceptual maturation from the perspective of pragmatic utility.

Methods: a concept analysis study. The stages were: select the concept; elaborate analytical questions; comprehensively review the literature; and determine concept structural components.

COVID-19 Infodemic and Impacts on the Mental Health of Older People: Cross-sectional Multicenter Survey Study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic received widespread media coverage due to its novelty, an early lack of data, and the rapid rise in deaths and cases. This excessive coverage created a secondary "infodemic" that was considered to be a serious public and mental health problem by the World Health Organization and the international scientific community. The infodemic particularly affected older individuals, specifically those who are vulnerable to misinformation due to political positions, low interpretive and critical analysis capacity, and limited technical-scientific knowledge.

The Multidimensionality of Low Health Literacy in Older Adults: A Scoping Review of International Studies.

This scoping review aims to map the dimensions encompassing the low health literacy (HL) of older adults, describing their respective causes and consequences. A three-step search strategy was conducted using 16 databases from nine portals and reference lists. Of the 4,259 identified studies, 2,845 were screened and 29 (1%) were included.

Toward a theorizing strategy with components of terminologies, classifications, and nursing theories.

Purpose: This article describes a theorizing strategy that integrates the components of classifications or terminologies with elements of grand or middle-range theories.

Methods: The source of metatheoretical data to support the strategy was the levels of theories by Dickoff et al. (1968).

Management technology for implementing the Systematization of Nursing Care.

Objective: To describe the construction of a management technology aimed at implementing the Systematization of Nursing Care in nursing services.

Method: This is a methodological, qualitative and explanatory study, based on the normative and legal framework of COFEN Resolution 358/2009. It comprised the theoretical construction of instruments for practice anchored in the literature and expertise of a group of 40 nurses, between April 2020 and June 2021.

Advanced nursing practice training: the reality of the United States and the first steps of Brazil.

This is a reflective theoretical essay, with the objective of reporting the experience of the United States and the first steps of Brazil in the training process of advanced practice nurses. The historical trajectory of two traditional graduate programs in the professional modality is described, one from Brazil and one from the United States. Both curriculum models highlight specific training disciplines of nursing practice, the thesis and DNP project, consisting of implementation studies.

Teleconsultation as an advanced practice nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic based on Roy and Chick-Meleis.

Teleconsultation can be classified as an advanced practice nursing that requires nurses' clinical reasoning based on a consistent theoretical framework to use in the nursing process. Our study conducted a theoretical-reflective analysis, based on Callista Roy's Adaptation Model of Nursing and Chick-Meleis' Transition Theory, about the contribution of teleconsultation as an advanced practice nursing in the care of older adults with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. We reflect on this in two moments: "nursing theories and dealing with COVID-19" and "ways of adapting to new care models and advanced practice nursing," based on communication and information technologies.

Nursing Process in the Brazilian context: reflection on its concept and legislation.

Objectives: to reflect on the global understanding of the Nursing Process concept, with emphasis on the Brazilian context.

Methods: a reflection article, aligned with the vision and expertise of researchers who are members of the Nursing Process Research Network.

Results: the reflection is presented in two main topics: The evolution of Systematization of Nursing Care X Nursing Process concepts and its consonance with national and international practices, and Brazilian legislation; The Nursing Process concept realignment in Brazilian legislation in line with current care, teaching and research practices.

"Readiness for enhanced healthy aging" nursing diagnosis: Content validation by experts.

Purpose: To validate the content nursing diagnosis "Readiness for enhanced healthy aging."

Methods: Descriptive, methodological study of diagnostic content validation, using the Fehring model. The sample consisted of 74 nurses experts in gerontology, with knowledge in NANDA-I nursing diagnoses.

Compromised end-of-life syndrome: Concept development from the condition of adults and older adults in palliative care.

Purpose: This study aimed to develop the nursing diagnosis concept "compromised end-of-life syndrome" in palliative care.

Methods: The authors used the integrative strategy by Meleis to develop the concept in this study and identifying clinical indicators from a literature review. For data organization, we applied the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Metanalysis (PRISMA).

Clinical and Microbiological Outcomes Associated With Use of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Chronic Venous Leg Uclers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: To evaluate the susceptibility profiles of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains identified in chronic venous ulcers treated with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and petrolatum gauze or petrolatum gauze alone and to quantitatively evaluate the bacterial load and biofilm-forming capacities of the detected S. aureus and P. aeruginosa strains.

Physical restraint in elderly in home care: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of mechanical restraint and factors associated with its practice in elderly in Home Care.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with 162 elderly randomly assigned to a home care program in Rio de Janeiro, from March 2018 to July 2018. Used as a technique for data collection and direct observation and structured interview of elderly clinical data.

Nursing diagnosis "Terminality Syndrome": a content analysis.

Objectives: to validate the nursing diagnosis "Terminality Syndrome" with experts.

Methods: a quantitative research of content validation type based on collective wisdom approach. An online semi-structured questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection, and Content Validity Index and Wilcoxon test were used for comparing possible differences.

(Lack of) oral hygiene care for hospitalized elderly patients.

Objective: to analyze the oral hygiene care for hospitalized elderly patients provided by the nursing staff.

Method: this is a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive study carried out in a university hospital, with the participation of 35 professionals from the nursing staff. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews, explored through thematic content analysis.

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.

Brazilian Nursing Process Research Network contributions for assistance in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to describe the theoretical construction process of nursing process support documents in COVID-19 care scenarios.

Methods: an experience report of the joint activity of the Brazilian Nursing Process Research Network (Rede de Pesquisa em Processo de Enfermagem) composed of Higher Education and Health Institution researchers in Brazil.

Results: five instruments were organized collectively, involving the elements of nursing practice (nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions) in assistance for community; for patients (with suspected or mild, moderate, and critical COVID-19 and residents in Nursing Homes); for nursing workers' health support, also subsidizing registration and documentation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nursing recommendations for facing dissemination of COVID-19 in Brazilian Nursing Homes.

Objective: to develop a protocol of recommendations for facing dissemination of COVID-19 in Brazilian Nursing Homes.

Method: a study of experts' recommendations using a structured form applied through the Delphi Technique, obtaining 100% agreement among professionals after four rounds of analysis. The population comprised six nurses members of the Scientific Department of Gerontological Nursing of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem).