Objective: to understand the existential experience of children undergoing chemotherapy on the importance of playing. Methods: qualitative research performed in the outpatient clinic of a teaching hospital with five children undergoing chemotherapy. Data were collected through the interviews and analyzed in the light of the Humanistic Nursing Theory. Results: the discourses revealed the children’s understanding...
The Family Health Program (FHP), is a proposal that aims to guide and organize the public system, assuring the construction of an assistance model that gives priority to all citizens. The nurse, as a member in this program plays an important role, developing actions that are common to the role team as well as, some other specifics actions such as nurse consultation, request of complementary tests and medicine p...
Geo-helmintíases compõem um grupo de doenças intestinais negligenciadas. O objetivo é caracterizar as publicações relacionadas aos ensaios clínicos com ênfase na terapêutica para o tratamento das geo-helmintíases. Foram adotados os seguintes critérios de inclusão: artigos originais de ensaios clínicos, publicados no período de 2005 a 2015, em língua portuguesa ou inglesa, acerca dos geo-helmintos Ascaris lumbri...
Objetivo: Avaliar o impacto da suplementação da dieta com multimistura sobre o estado nutricional de crianças em fase pré-escolar em risco nutricional. Métodos: Trata-se de estudo tipo duplo cego com duração de dois meses e acompanhamento longitudinal de 135 crianças na faixa etária de um a seis anos. As crianças foram divididas em três grupos: intervenção 1 (GI1 n=48), intervenção 2 (GI2 n=45) e controle (GC n...
OBJECTIVE: to investigate and analyze communication in palliative care contexts from the perspective of nurses, based on Humanistic Nursing Theory. METHOD: this is a field study with a qualitative approach, in which ten nurses working in the pediatric oncology unit of a Brazilian public hospital participated. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The testimonies were qualitatively analyzed using...
The main focuses of bioethics are the respect and the valorization of human-being. In this sense, the objectives of this study were to investigate the discuss of people with HIV/AIDS concerning to their rights and duties and to analyze theses discusses within bioethical criteria. It is an exploratory work with a qualitative approach. The investigation field was the Assistance to the HIV/AIDS carrier from the un...
Estudo de natureza bibliográfica que tem por objetivo estimular a reflexão dos profissionais envolvidos no cuidar da criança hospitalizada, quanto à necessidade de humanizar a assistência a estes pequenos pacientes. São abordados os aspectos referentes ao desenvolvimento psicossocial da criança, suas reações diante da hospitalização, destacando a humanização da assistência como estratégia a ser adotada na minim...
This is a study of bibliographical nature which aims to stimulate the reflexion of professionals who are involved in looking after hospitalized children. It takes into account the necessity of humanizing the assistance to such young patients. The study approaches aspects related to the psychosocial development of the child, their reactions towards hospitalization, highlighting the humanization of assistance as ...
ABSTRACT: The progressive increase of cases of children with cancer in Brazil has stimulated many health professionals to develop researches which contribute to a better quality of health assistance to this clientele and their families. This study consists of a qualitative design of field research which aim to understand the lived dialogue between nurse and mothers of children with cancer grounded in Paterson a...
Nas últimas décadas, a utilização da terapia de reposição hormonal para a mulher climatérica, tem sido questionada pelos estudiosos da área no que concerne as vantagens e desvantagens da referida terapêutica. Daí, a necessidade de uma reflexão ética no tocante às orientações dos profissionais de saúde envolvidos na assistência ao climatério. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza reflexiva respaldado na literatura p...