abstract：:Based on the Theory of Roles, this study aimed to examine health team professionals' views on the role played by their colleagues. We interviewed 39 health professionals: 01 nutritionist, 02 psychologists, 02 nurses, 03 physiotherapists, 04 pharmacists, 10 dentists and 17 physicians. The results showed that the partic...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： da Costa Saar SR,Trevizan MA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to contribute to the discussion on the development of a specific research line on Nursing History. It concludes by addressing the current situation of nursing teaching in undergraduate courses, its persisting difficulties and growing possibilities of this yet so little explored field. ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Oguisso T,de Freitas GF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective sleep quality has been recognized as a valuable indicator of health and quality of life. This exploratory and descriptive study aimed at describing habitual sleep quality of women suffering from gynecological and breast cancer and comparing habitual versus sleep quality during hospitalization. Twenty-five w...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Furlani R,Ceolim MF

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims was to identify the social-demographic characteristics and the lesions of patients with venous ulcer (VU), as well as to estimate the total direct cost of materials and nursing personnel necessary for the procedure with unna boot, by the average total direct cost (ATDC) and the observed cost (OTDC). The theoretic...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Baptista CM,Castilho V

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify the difficulties nurses experience at the start of their professional life in prenatal care activities. Data were collected through interviews with 25 nurses who accompanied prenatal care in the basic health network of Rio Branco-AC, Brazil and were grouped according to the frequency and l...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Dotto LM,Moulin Nde M,Mamede MV

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The teaching-learning process is complex and leaves many question marks, mainly when one thinks about quality. Therefore, this study aims at identifying factors that interfere positively or negatively in the teaching-learning process, through the perspective of students and faculty of the Nursing course at the Univers...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Zani AV,Nogueira MS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buccal odors have always been a factor of concern for society. This study aims to investigate the historical and social base of halitosis, through systematized research in the database BVS (biblioteca virtual em saúde - virtual library in health) and also in books. Lack of knowledge on how to prevent halitosis allows ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Elias MS,Ferriani Md

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality is already a part of daily reality in hospital organizations. Care is assessed through the organizational structures, work processes and obtained results. The goal was to identify the result evaluation criteria applied to the nursing service, used in accreditation programs, and to classify them in administ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Feldman LB,Cunha IC

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an integrative literature review to characterize research produced by Brazilian oncology nursing. The bibliographic survey covered national nursing publications, from 1980 to 2004, from which we identified 84 articles, which composed the study sample. The results indicate the lack of clarifications to d...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Silveira CS,Zago MM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive and exploratory study from a quantitative approach aimed to characterize workers who were victims of work accidents related to human body fluids exposure and to evaluate the accident victim care protocol. The population consisted of 48 workers who were victims of work accidents involving exposure to h...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Balsamo AC,Felli VE

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess whom adolescents shared information and dialogues about sexuality with. Therefore, 383 fifteen to nineteen year-old adolescents enrolled in a family health unit in the city of São Paulo (Brazil) were interviewed in 2002. Adolescents most frequently seemed to talk about sex with peers, althou...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Borges AL,Nichiata LY,Schor N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to describe and analyze the activities in elderly groups at basic health care units. Suffering from chronic-degenerative diseases, the elderly need continuous and more frequent health care. This can be facilitated by group actions, privileging educational activities. We found great diversity in method...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Garcia MA,Yagi GH,Souza CS,Odoni AP,Frigério RM,Merlin SS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eugenics constitutes an important subject of debate, associated with current biogenetics improvements. Considering that the central point in eugenics has always been the preoccupation with future generations' health and constitution, and that the use of scientific means and knowledge for the birth of a physically and ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Mai LD,Angerami EL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This transversal and descriptive study aimed at evaluating the life quality of nursing professionals working at a surgical ward, using the Index of Work Satisfaction. Study participants were 105 workers; most of them women (82.9%), with an average age of 38. In this group, 69.5% were nursing auxiliaries and 11.4% were...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Schmidt DR,Dantas RA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of health professionals in the hospital environment has been loosing its human characteristics in view of the care delivered to the disease rather than to the sick being, and also in view of the increasing technological complexity, associated with increasing costs. Ethics requires the implementation of a ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Backes DS,Lunardi VL,Lunardi WD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the authors discuss the value of international health in advancing the nursing profession through the development of strong leadership in the area of drug demand reduction. Paradigms for nursing leadership are briefly reviewed and linked to the development of the "International Nursing Leadership Inst...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Wright Mda G,Caufield C,Gray G,Olson J,Ludueña Adel C,Musayon Oblitas FY,Huaiquian Silva J,David HM,Piedra Chavez KA,Bernal Roldán MC,Cartana Mdo H,Allonso Castillo MM,Pillon S,Galera SA,Randuz V

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multicenter research was conducted with mothers of preadolescents in Brazil, Argentina and Chile, using focused ethnography. From this research in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, a case study of one mother is presented. The findings show the perceptions of quality of life and health promotion before and after...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Cartana Mdo H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative study aimed at identifying how obstetrical nurses perceive the humanization of delivery care, as well as evidencing, based on their discourse, the actions they develop during the birth process and factors that complicate the implementation of this care. Study participants were 16 nurses from a materni...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Castro JC,Clapis MJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current trends suggest that the dissemination of nursing knowledge and published papers in high quality journals bring further development in the professionalization of nursing. There is limited understanding of the factors that enable nurses' writing for publication, but an educational programme on publications skill...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Rassool GH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this exploratory-descriptive study was to measure and compare nursing staff turnover levels at the University Hospital of São Paulo University. The population consisted of 255 nursing workers - 78 nurses, 20 technicians and 156 auxiliaries - who resigned from the hospital between 1997 and 2000. Turnover le...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Nomura FH,Gaidzinski RR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses often adopt a mechanist view, perceiving the individual from a biological standpoint and giving little attention to psychological, historical and cultural aspects. This evidences the need for a more humane approach, in which the communication between nurses and health service users can be achieved with more com...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Machado MM,Leitão Gda C,de Holanda FU

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at analyzing the level of personal satisfaction of adolescents addicted to drugs in family environment during the treatment stage at a mental health institute. Authors used the Family Satisfaction Scale with Adjectives adapted, validated and applied to a sample of 34 patients selected according to est...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Velásquez Carranza DV,Pedrão LJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to describe the learning results of the implementation of teaching strategies involving patients who will be submitted to liver transplantation. One of these strategies is to give the patients a manual with orientations and the subsequent application of a questionnaire related to the content of the man...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Sasso KD,Galvão CM,Castro e Silva Od Jr,França AV

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study estimated the mean total direct cost of some production factors (material resources), including consumption materials, diets, medication and solutions used by two patient groups during hospitalization in the Interdisciplinary Home Hospitalization Program (PROIID) of Marília-SP, Brazil. The sample consisted ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Mesquita SR,Anselmi ML,Santos CB,Hayashida M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study involved the teachers of sixteen Nursing Courses at Higher Education Institutions in the State of Rio Grande do Sul and aimed to identify the care, education and management technologies that are used and/or produced in their professional praxis in professionalizing subjects. This text presents a research ex...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Nietsche EA,Backes VM,Colomé CL,Ceratti Rdo N,Ferraz F

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories are propositions created to evaluate nursing care, allowing nurses to consider and incorporate them in their professional practice. This Masters study was aimed at thinking critically about the practical usefulness of the concepts of Humanistic Nursing Theory. This descriptive-reflexive study was carried out ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Rolim KM,Pagliuca LM,Leitão Cardoso MV

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to understand the teaching-learning process from the point-of-view of teachers and students who experienced the nursing practice in mental and psychiatric health. Data were collected through interviews with students and teachers who had experienced the phenomenon and analyzed according to a social phe...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Campoy MA,Merighi MA,Stefanelli MC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to identify and understand adult patients' representations on tube feeding. Data were collected through interviews with sixteen patients who were using feeding tubes, which were analyzed through discourse analysis and Social Representation Theory. We identified a sequence in which representations are ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Barbosa JA,Freitas MI

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the effect of respiration and relaxation techniques on pain and anxiety during labor. Seventeen parturients (Control Group--CG) received routine care and nineteen (Experimental Group--EG) were orientated and stimulated to perform respiration and relaxation techniques. Pain was evaluated by...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Almeida NA,de Sousa JT,Bachion MM,Silveira Nde A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the patient in group psychotherapy, describing factors that provide changes during the process and the particularities of this therapeutic mode. Based on the available literature and the authors' systematic experience throughout thirty years of group therapeutic work, the variables that determine t...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Bechelli LP,dos Santos MA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper was to describe the organization of the Advanced Home Care Program provided in a region of Sweden and to discuss some benefits and implications of this model adoption in Brazilian settings. Data triangulation as interview, observation and questionnaire was used. Thirty two professionals parti...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Perroca MG,Ek AC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to understand the experience of parents living with a hospitalized adolescent. Fifteen parents of hospitalized adolescents were interviewed from August to October of 2002. Data were analyzed through Martin Heidegger's phenomenological approach. Four themes were identified: the impact of the illness on...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Armond LC,Boemer MR

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home care is defined as a group of hospital procedures that can be developed at home, encompassing health actions developed by a multiprofessional team. This study aims at disseminating the experience of a home care service offered by São Francisco Hospital, located in the city of Ribeirão Preto, presenting the result...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Fabrício SC,Wehbe G,Nassur FB,Andrade JI

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out with 3 to 6 year-old boys undergoing circumcision, with a view to understanding the meaning of the interactions they experienced them during the post-operative period as well as identifying their strategies while experiencing the surgery. Symbolic Interactionism was used as a theoretical ref...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Castro AS,Silva CV,Ribeiro CA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This qualitative research used observation as a data collection technique, guided by an instrument elaborated on the basis of Nightingale and Semmelweis' postulates: vital power/life and prevention/contagion. A brief history of infection control is offered from the focus of prevention/contagion. The postulate vital po...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Carraro TE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to describe health condition changes as experienced by elderly with Chronic Kidney Failure (CKF), under Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) treatment at the Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation Unit of a public hospital in Ribeirão Preto -- SP, Brazil. Participants were six elderly under C...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Kusumota L,Rodrigues RA,Marques S

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This study aims to identify risk factors associated with licit and illicit drug abuse among adolescent students in various public institutions. METHODS:A descriptive study was carried out in Naguanagua, Carabobo, Venezuela and applied the Test Drug Use Screening Inventory questionnaire to an age-stratified ...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Rebolledo EA,Medina NM,Pillon SC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identified the demographic profile, obstetric and clinical diagnoses, nursing diagnosis and most common collaboration problem among pregnant women subject to high-risk at a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Data were collected by means of a form based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns. Nursing diagnoses w...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Gouveia HG,Lopes MH

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, nursing is sustained by different paradigms, among which we highlight those related to totality and simultaneity, since these embody the main conceptual models and specific theories for nursing practice. This study aims to provide elements that will lead to reflections about the possibility of founding healt...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： do Nascimento ER,Trentini M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at investigating the occurrence of stress among workers at five family health centers of the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine. The author used Lipp's Inventory of Stress Symptoms in Adults. The instrument aims to identify the symptoms presented by the individuals, evaluatin...

journal_title：Revista latino-americana de enfermagem

authors： Camelo SH,Angerami EL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00