Objective: To unveil the content of comments in official posts calling from the Ministry of Helth, calling for health professionals to confront COVID-19.Method: Qualitative study, carried out with 2823 comments, obtained from the virtual access to the Ministry of Health's social networks on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. For textual corpus processing, used or software Interface R analyzes Multidimensional Tex...
Objective: To analyze self-concept adaptation and role function models in patients with oral cavity cancer. Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted with patients at a cancer reference hospital in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. The interview was used as a data collection technique, using a semi-structured instrument, based on Callista Roy’s theoretical framework. Data verifi cation occurred based on thematic cont...
Objective: to unveil the experience of the elderly with social isolation in the pandemic of COVID-19. Methods: qualita-tive study, with 14 elderlies in social isolation. The content was recorded and processed using the software Interface de R pour les Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionnaires. Results: six classes were obtained, the first focused on spirituality and pre-pandemic pleasurable a...
Objective: investigate the scientific evidence on the technologies that are used for health education for deaf people. Method: integrative review carried out in October 2017, with the publications of the last 15 years, in the databases MEDLINE/PubMed, CINAHL, LILACS via Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), Web of Science and Scopus. Results: we found 3367 articles, of which 19 were included in the study. The pred...
Objective: this study aimed to evaluate the hand hygiene routine of companions in inpatient units. Methods: it was an observational study with 50 companions, aged over 18 years and with clear language. A questionnaire and observation of hand hygiene moments were used. For analysis, descriptive statistics was applied. Results: the use of liquid soap (p=0.939), alcohol-based hand gel (p=0.939), collective use tow...
Objective: To construct and validate a safety assessment instrument for chronic renal patients on hemodialysis. Methods: methodological study that comprised the instrument’s construction and content validation by 14 experts, and evaluation of its understanding by nine nurses. Construction was based on the health legislation on hemodialysis and international patient safety standards. For analysis of the experts’...
Aim: to evaluate the knowledge of the nursing team of a university hospital before and after the use of an educational hypermedia about the peripheral venous puncture. Method: a quasi-experimental study with 57 nursing professionals from a university hospital in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. The previous knowledge and acquired knowledge were verified after the use of hypermedia available in the Solar Platform o...
Objective: To assess the effectiveness of an educational hypermedia in the knowledge of Nursing academics on peripheral venipuncture. Method: Quasi-experimental study with pre and post-test design. Results: The mean number of right answers of the 73 individuals who participated in the study, in the pre-test, was 7.7 (DP = 1.05), and 8.3 in the post-test (DP = 0.74). The comparation of pre and post hypermedia me...
Objective: to validate the content of the Brazilian version of the General Comfort Questionnaire. Methods: validation study; the instrument was evaluated by 22 judges for clarity, comprehension, relevance, association with comfort and classification of items in the domains. The agreement among judges was analyzed through a binomial test and the Content Validation Index. Results: of the 48 items, ten were distri...
Objective: To evaluate two teaching strategies on peripheral venipuncture used with university students. Methods: Quasi-experimental study conducted from October to November 2015 with 82 nursing students of a private university in Ceará. In order to check the previous knowledge of students, a pre-test was held and, after implementation of the educational strategy, a post-test on Peripheral Venipuncture was appl...