Guidebook for renal dialysis patients: care of central venous catheters and arteriovenous fistula.

Objective: To design and validate the content and format of a guidebook for chronic renal failure patients about the care with venous access for hemodialysis at home.

Method: Methodological study, in which the steps for the guidebook design were: project planning, literature search, material content, and qualification selection.

Results: After analysis of the articles, the content to be included in the guidebook was selected.

Instructional therapeutic toy in the culture care of the child with diabetes type 1.

Objective: To analyze the experience of the child with diabetes type 1 in the care related to the techniques of glycemic monitoring and insulin application by use of instructional therapeutic toy, in accordance with the culture care.

Method: Qualitative study with premise of the ethnonursing carried out in secondary public service of reference in the treatment of diabetes, in the city Fortaleza, Ceará State, between January and November of 2014, among 26 school-age children. Based on the Observation, Participation, Reflection Enabler, were developed educational activities using instructional therapeutic toy.

Network and social support in family care of children with diabetes.

Objective:: to understand the influence of network and social support in the care of a child with type 1 diabetes.

Method:: qualitative study, with assumptions of ethnonursing, conducted in a reference service specialized in the treatment of diabetes, in 2014, in the city of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil. Twenty-six members of the family and their respective school children participated in the study.

[The perception of nurses regarding educational practices for children with diabetes in hospital care].

The aim of this study was to describe the perception of nurses regarding educational practices conducted with children with diabetes in a hospital unit. It is a descriptive qualitative study, conducted in an inpatient unit of a public hospital in Fortaleza, state of Ceará, Brazil, between January and February of 2013, with six nurses. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and submitted to content analysis, from which two categories emerged: role of nurses and staff in caring for the child with diabetes: the necessary intersection; and health education directed at the child with diabetes and family members in the hospital context.

[Children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease in an educational-therapeutic environment: support for cultural nursing care].

This qualitative study was performed using an ethnographic approach, with the objective to understand how children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease experience their disease and treatment, and describe the educational-therapeutic care from the perspective of transcultural nursing. Participants were eleven subjects undergoing dialysis treatment. The study phases followed the observation-participation-reflection model, complemented by interviews.

[Permanent care: 24 hours nursing care, our way to take care].

Theoretical-reflexive study motivated by the epistemology of Gaston Bachelard and by the project "Thousand and one ways to take care in Nursing" by Maria José Coelho. We had as objective to trace new ways to take care in dialysis nursing, creating a system of cares offered to chronic kidney patients. Seven nursing cares that involve care of people in dialysis treatment were described: reception; bonding; specialized techniques; support to self-care; assessment of the treatment, facing the unstimulating routine; and citizenship rescue.

[Scientific knowledge production in Nephrology Nursing].

This is a bibliographic research, with quantitative approach, that aimed to know the scientific production of theses and dissertations available in the database of the Center of Studies and Research in Nursing (CEPEn) and its applicability in the nursing area in nephrology. It was found 48 abstracts of theses and dissertations in the period from 1979 to 2007. The results point that these productions are concentrated in the Southeast and Southern regions of Brazil.