Objectives: To develop and validate, for appearance and content, an instrument to assess the knowledge of nursing professionals and students on measures to prevent peripheral venous catheter-related bloodstream infection. Method: Methodological study carried out in two stages: instrument development, based on national and international guides, and appearance and content validation by ten expert judges, consider...
Objective: to develop and validate an educational technology for individuals living with the human immunodeficiency virus. Method: a methodological study, for the elaboration of educational material. The educational needs, content selection, and illustrations were defined from interviews with the target population. Afterward, we carried the writing, the material layout elaboration, and assembly and, subsequentl...
Hepatitis C is an illness that affects about 30% of the people with HIV/aids in the whole world. This work had the objectives of characterize the levels of knowledge, of perception, of related questions, and of security of the nursing professionals about the co-infection aids/hepatitis C, in a southeastern Brazilian hospital specialized in infection disease, during October 2005 a November 2006. This is an explo...
The infusion therapy is indispensable in daily practical of nursing and the peripheral catheters are the most. This prospective, quantitative study, aiming to identify the frequency, characterizes the knowledge and practices of use of the intermittent peripheral catheter (CPI) by the nursing staff. The data were collected through a questionnaire and systematic observation of the procedures of infusion and maint...
The objective was to identify the conception of a dentistry team from the Primary Health Care (PHC) about standard precautions (SPs), obstacles to use SPs and, safety at the workplace. A descriptive-exploratory study with a quantitative approach conducted with 70.27% of the PHC dentistry team from a city in São Paulo state. We used Scales of Psychosocial and Organizational Factors that Influence Adherence to St...