The objectives were to identify occupational exposure of community health workers to biological material; to characterize the means of exposure, organic secretions and circumstances involved; to describe the behaviors adopted, and verify the participation of these workers in training on biological risk and biosafety. Descriptive cross-sectional study. Participants comprised 80 workers of the 89 members of famil...
Objective: to identify the contributions of the Tutorial Education Program to academic and professional life according to alumni of the undergraduate course in Nursing. Method: exploratory-descriptive qualitative study with 11 alumni of a Nursing TEP group from a public university in the Brazilian Central-West. The data were collected between November 2018 and April 2019, using a semi-structured interview analy...
Objective: To analyze the profile of nursing diagnoses in people with leprosy based on Orem’s theory and the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®). Method: cross-sectional, descriptive study of 24 people with leprosy in outpatient care. Data collection occurred through nursing consultations in the light of Orem’s theory, using interviews and clinical examination. Results: The process of nurs...
Wound care in the hospital environment continues at home after discharge and performed by the informal caregiver. The objective of this study was to characterize the behavior of the informal caregiver during the treatment of wounds in hospitalized patient. This is a prospective study with 39 caregivers of wounded patients in a university hospital in the Brazilian Midwest. We collected the data through direct no...