Revista gaúcha de enfermagem / EENFUFRGS
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To reveal the perceptions, expertise and practices of multi-professional teams providing palliative care to children in a paediatric oncology unit. The research questions were based on everyday care, facilitations and difficulties, essential aspects of professional approaches, and the inter-disciplinary focus of care for children in palliative care and their families. ⋯ The subjects revealed that the team also suffers with the death of a child and, like the family, moves toward the construction of coping mechanisms for the elaboration of mourning. Paradoxically, the team shares knowledge to determine the foundations of a singular therapeutic project and inserts the family in this process so that it can be the protagonist of the child's care.
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To understand the reasons why health institutions from the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil prevent the presence of a companion in vaginal and caesarean delivery, from the perspective of nurses and technical directors. ⋯ The companion impediment is guided by pre-conceived ideas that can negatively interfere in the organization of the birth process.
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This study aimed to measure the Work Ability Index of workers of a hospital housekeeping staff and identify the associated factors. Cross-sectional study conducted in 201 with 157 workers of the housekeeping staff of a university hospital in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A questionnaire containing sociodemographic, labor and health variables and the Brazilian version of the Work Ability Index was used. ⋯ After some adjustments, the workers that did not have time for leisure showed a 2.67 times higher prevalence of having the work ability reduced (CI95%=1.23-5.82). The other variables lost their association with the outcome. Measures aimed at the maintenance of work ability and the practice of physical activity and training for postural care are indicated.
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The objective of this study was to perceive the death-dying process from the perspective of nursing students. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research study. Data were collected between June and July 2013, from three focus groups with six nursing students at a University Center located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. ⋯ Descriptors: Death. Education, nursing. Attitude to death.
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Our objective was to identify factors associated with the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV) postoperative to cardiac surgery and assess the association between duration of endotracheal intubation, length of stay in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospital. Longitudinal, retrospective study of medical records of 116 adults undergoing cardiac surgery from March 2012 to May 2013. ⋯ Associated with longer MV was the age (r = 0.5, p < 0.001), comorbidities (r = 0.344, p < 0.001), cardiopulmonary bypass time (r = 0.244, p = 0.008), duration of continuous sedation (r = 0.607, p < 0.001), sedative doses (r = 0.4, p < 0.001), time of vasoconstrictors and vasodilators (r = 0.711, p < 0.001, r = 0.368, p < 0.001), drainage of the 1st time (r = 0.201, p < 0.031), presence of drains (r = 0.445, p < 0.001), postoperative complications (r=0.524, p< 0.001) and hospital stay. Our data confirms that both preoperative, transoperative and postoperative variables prolong the VM and therefore the hospital stay.