Wet packs: Is extending drying time increasing water (scarce natural resource) consumption?
Conclusion: This study shows that increasing drying time to solve wet packs will increase water consumption, a scarce natural resource, and should be the last option to achieve dry loads at the end of the cycle. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Most prevalent type of elder abuse and its correlation with elder depression
Conclusion: Invisible types of elder abuse such as emotional, verbal, and neglect abuse were more prevalent than visible types such as financial and physical abuse. These abuse types were also significantly correlated with elder depression. This study warrants future interventional studies to improve elders ’ perception of elder abuse and thus prevent the development of elder depression. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Physical, emotional and social burden of elderly patients’ informal caregivers
Conclusion: The burden was higher for the partners, caregivers with comorbidities, pain related to the activity performed and caregivers who considered their health as regular. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Validation of the attitude scale for information and communications technologies
Conclusion: The scale presented values of suitability above the average for this type of instrument. Thus, it is effective to assess the proposed object and it provides an innovative means of research within this field. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Ocular manifestations in port workers: prevalence and associated factors
Conclusion: The findings of the current study may contribute to the clinical assessment of nurses in approaching port workers, as well as to guide the planning and implementation of social and environmental care in line with the health needs of these or other workers. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Clinical aspects and the origin of sepsis patients treated at a university hospital
Conclusion: More than half of the patients hospitalized with sepsis come from other health services. they presented a greater degree of severity and required more therapeutic interventions. However, there was no difference in mortality rates. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Safety evaluation in vaccine care: elaborating and validating a protocol
Conclusion: the protocol for safety in nursing care with vaccines proved a high credibility and its adoption in health institutions can contribute to the quality of vaccine care and the conduct of professionals. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Being an entrepreneur in nursing: challenges to nurses in a strategic leadership position
Conclusion: In the context of the study, the position occupied by nurses represents an unparalleled opportunity for the dissemination of an entrepreneurial culture in diverse professional settings, both in terms of strategic potential for management of people and processes, as well as in stimulating the development of entrepreneurial actions in care management, and management of health and nursing services. The study awakens the need to search for means and possibilities to allow for management of the paradoxes that permeate the reality of being a female nurse in a strategic position of leadership in healthcare and teachin...
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Terminological subset of the International Classification for Nursing practice (ICNP®) for breastfeeding support: content validation study
Conclusion: 50 diagnoses/results and 350 nursing interventions were validated. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Tobacco use among women receiving treatment in a psychosocial care center
Conclusion: The prevalence of tobacco-based product use among women with mental and behavioral disorders was high, compared to the general female population, and was associated with the presence of clinical comorbidities. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Nursing diagnoses associated with human needs in coping with HIV
Conclusion: The identification of the categories, nursing diagnoses, and human needs provides nurses with subsidies to carry out their practice grounded in a standardized language, helping improve nursing care. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Good practices in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Conclusion: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia can cause serious repercussions for patients. Thus, the application of measures with scientific basis is fundamental to prevent the occurrence of this event, which is one of the most frequent infections related to health care within Brazilian Intensive Care Units. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Common mental disorders among nursing workers in a psychiatric hospital
Conclusion: The findings of these associations allow us to infer that there is a relationship between workers ’ life habits, their work activity, and the outcome evidenced by the higher percentage of common mental disorders. This study contributes with subsidies for proposing interventions and actions to prevent workers from becoming ill. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Impact of social media on health science journals
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Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - April 4, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Nominata
Conclusion The results of this integrative review showed that advanced practices in nursing have a positive relation to patient safety. (Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem)
Source: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem - March 12, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
