Effects of plasma rich in growth factors on wound healing in patients with venous ulcers.

Introduction: Significant evidence suggests that plasma-rich in growth factors (PRGF) favor the repair of chronic wounds, enabling a rapid return to functionality. However, components of PRGF and their effects on persistent ulcers and epithelial tissues are not well characterized. The goals of this research were to analyze the biological properties of platelet-derived factors, to examine their effectiveness on healing of venous ulcers, and to establish a correlation with clinical and sociodemographic data.

Medication Non-adherence in Depression: A Systematic Review and Metanalysis.

Objective: Medication non-adherence is frequently reported in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). The objective of this review is to consolidate data on the prevalence of non-adherence to antidepressant in MDD.

Methods: A systematic review with meta-analysis was performed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline and the protocol was registered in PROSPERO under the number CRD42021199987.

Death Anxiety: Concept Analysis and Clarification of Nursing Diagnosis.

Purpose: To analyze the concept of "Death anxiety" (00147) and to propose modifications in the components of this diagnosis in Taxonomy II of NANDA-I.

Methods: A conceptual analysis was developed based on the eight steps proposed by Walker and Avant.

Findings: Twenty-six articles were included from a search in four databases.

Creation and validation of a checklist for blood transfusion in children.

Objective: To describe the process for creating and validating a checklist for blood transfusion in children.

Method: Methodological study, conducted from November 2016 to May 2017, developed in two stages. The content of the items that compose the instrument was based on scientific evidence and submitted to specialized nurses for content validation.

Project HOPE: American nurses in Brazil (1973).

Objective: to describe the reality of nurses of Project HOPE and discuss the repercussion of their performance in relation to the reconfiguration of nursing in Alagoas State.

Method: social-historical study, whose primary sources were documents filed in the Laboratory of Documentation and Research in History of Nursing, granted by this project; oral testimonies resulting from the transcription of interviews of US nurses and the VeNeta Masson's'logbook, coordinator nurse of the ship. The discussion of the data was based on Pierre Bourdieu's theory.

Death education: sensibility for caregiving.

Objective: to report the application of a participatory teaching-learning method on the themes death, dying, and associate care to highlight its applicability to the students.

Method: report of application of participatory method in 22 students from the 6th period of the undergraduate program in Nursing and Obstetrics of a public university. The first stage focused on personal experiences of the students and the second on professional prospects.

National Licensure Exam for Brazilian Nurses: why and for whom?

Objective: To analyze critically the reasons for regulating a National Licensure Exam for Brazilian Nurses (NLEXB-N).

Method: Qualitative study with secondary source applying the critical discourse analysis to situate context and intertextuality in the establishment of a new social practice. We analyzed data from legal documents regulating the National Licensure Exam of other professions in Brazil, the Educational Census, the Survey of Brazilian Nursing Profile and global nursing literature.

Social representations of older adults regarding quality of life.

Objective: to identify the social representations of older adults regarding quality of life, and to analyze the care practices adopted to promote it.

Method: qualitative, exploratory, descriptive research, applying the Theory of Social Representations. Thirty older people from a Health Academy of Rio de Janeiro participated in the study.