The study aimed to characterize the socio-demographic and reproductive profi le of pregnant teenagers accompanied by a basic health care unit in the municipal district of Canindé, state of Ceará, in order to verify their social networks of support. The research relies upon a quantitative study made from December 2006 to January 2007 with interviews with 23 adolescents in prenatal care. Of those, 15(65.2%) were ...
The aim of this study was to characterize the treatments applied to newborns with congenital malformation hospitalized in a neonatal unit and to identify whether there is an association among the treatments used and the type of malformation. A descriptive, prospective and quantitative study was developed in a public institution in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Data were collected using the medical records of 30 neo...
The assistance to newborns with impaired skin integrity should be a priority for the nursing staff. Thus, we aimed to analyze the use of the interventions proposed by the Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) indicated for the nursing diagnosis Impaired skin integrity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This is an exploratory descriptive study using cross-mapping in three public neonatal units, in Fortalez...
Objective: to identify the conducts performed by nursing technicians before the newborn with pain in a neonatal intensive care unit. Method: it is an exploratory and descriptive study conducted in a public maternity in Fortaleza/CE, Brazilian Northeast, with 25 nursing technicians. Semi-structured interview was the used instrument, and the data were processed, analyzed and discussed according to the literature....
Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) often get skin lesions on account of the many stressful procedures they are exposed to. This prospective, quantitative and descriptive study was carried out at a public health facility in Fortaleza (Northeastern Brazil) from March to May 2007, in order to investigate skin lesion patterns in infants in the NICU setting. The study population consisted of 137 hosp...
The study intended to identify the criteria used for picking out experts in researches on validation of nursing diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes. This is a descriptive study, developed from searching in databases/libraries, in June 2010, through the descriptors: Validation Studies, Content Validation, and experts, in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Initially, the title and abstracts of the productions w...
The aim of this research was to understand the experience of being a father of preterm infant admitted in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This is a descriptive qualitative study carried out at a public hospital in Fortaleza-Ceará-Brazil, in 2008. Sixteen fathers were interviewed, based on a semi-structured instrument. The results were analyzed and organized in two themes, with their respective categories: pater...
O estudo teve como objetivo identificar os critérios utilizados para seleção de experts nas pesquisas sobre validação de diagnósticos, intervenções ou resultados de enfermagem. Estudo descritivo, realizado a partir de busca em bases de dados/bibliotecas, em junho de 2010, por meio dos descritores Estudos de Validação, Validação de Conteúdo e experts, em português, inglês e espanhol. Inicialmente, realizou-se le...
The study intended to identify the criteria used for picking out experts in researches on validation of nursing diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes. This is a descriptive study, developed from searching in databases/libraries, in June 2010, through the descriptors: Validation Studies, Content Validation, and experts, in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Initially, the title and abstracts of the productions...
Objetivou-se compreender a experiência de ser pai de recém-nascido prematuro internado em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal. Estudo descritivo qualitativo, realizado em um hospital público de Fortaleza-Ceará-Brasil, em 2008. Dezesseis pais participaram da entrevista, a partir de um instrumento semiestruturado. Os resultados foram analisados e organizados em duas temáticas, com as respectivas categorias: exp...