Applicability of Orem: training of caregiver of infant with Robin Sequence.

Objective: to report the nurses' experience in relation to the training of caregivers of infants with Isolated Robin Sequence (IRS) for maintaining care after hospital discharge from the perspective of Self-Care Theoretical Framework.

Method: the following categories were considered in this experience report: self-care action, self-care capacity, therapeutic self-care demand, self-care deficit, and nursing system. The nursing system was wholly compensatory and supportive-educative.

Psychosocial and organizational factors relating to adherence to standard precautions.

Objective: To analyze the influence of psychosocial and organizational factors relating to adherence to standard precautions for preventing exposure to biological material in hospitals.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 medical and nursing professionals at a university hospital in the municipality of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, in 2002. After selection by means of simple random sampling, the participants answered a questionnaire on psychosocial variables in the form of a Likert scale.

[Home glycemic profiles as an strategy for insulin therapy adjustments in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus].

The goal of this paper is to characterize the glycemic profiles of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus like a strategy in insulin adjustments. A total of 3259 tests were realized being 781 before breakfast, 752 before lunch, 765 before dinner and 740 before bed and 221 in the dawn. The average of the blood glucose tests in these periods overstepped the superior limits in 6.

[Evaluation of 2 home monitoring schemes in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus].

The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two monitoring schemes(blood and urine) in the metabolic control of type 1 diabetic patients, in biweekly therapeutic adjustments, along 6 months of participation in the educational groups. A sample of 34 patients was divided in two groups. The interventions proposed to group A were daily blood glucose monitoring, during three consecutive days for each period (before breakfast, before lunch, before dinner and before bed) and biweekly in the dawn.

[Reutilization of paraformaldehyde tablets: assessment of their sterilizing effect].

The sterilizing activity of reused Paraformaldehyde tablets was assessed by microbiologic monitoring according to the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) technic required in Brazil to register this class of sanitizing substances into the Health Ministry. Previous to the microbiologic tests, physical-chemscs assays were done through iodine titration according to the Society of Japanese Pharmacopoeia. It was possible, than, to draw a graphic showing a curve of the gaseous formaldehyde concentration discharged, at each sterilization cycle in relation to the number of reuse of the paraformaldehyde tablets.