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Practical strategies for nursing care for the elderly residing in long-stay ins...

Objective: Propose recommendations for prevention measures to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in long-term institutions and strategies to ensure the connectivity of elderly residents with family and friends in the context of Covid-19. Method: Reflective study, produced based on readings correlated with the subject area. Results: Recommendations were made based on current scientific evidence for preventive ...

Functional capacity: association with risk for falls, fear of falling and pain ...

Objective: to associate functional capacity with the risk of falls, fear of falling, and pain in hospitalized elderly. Methods: cross-sectional study with 130 elderlies. The following scales were applied: Activities of Daily Living, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, Morse Falls, Fear of Falling and Pain. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to associate the categorical variables to the Daily Living Activitie...

Personal satisfaction and leisure activities in elderly outpatients

Objectives: to evaluate the association of life satisfaction with attitude towards leisure among the elderly. Method: This is a cross-sectional and analytical study conducted with 100 elderly outpatients. Spearman’s correlation coefficient was used to relate the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Leisure Attitude Measurement Scale. Results: The higher the score in the physical health and mental health domains...

Translation and Transcultural adaptation of the King’s Parkinson´s Disease Pain...

The objective of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the King´s Parkinson´s Disease Pain Questionnaire into the Brazilian- Portuguese language carried out in five phases: (1) The original instrument was translated into Brazilian Portuguese; (2) to assess cultural, semantic and conceptual equivalence in relation to the original instrument; (3) it was back-translated from Brazilian Portuguese into En...

Identification of warning signs for prevention of in-hospital cardiorespiratory...

Objective: to identify the occurrence of warning signs and changes in vital signs in individuals who experienced in-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest and correlate them with the occurrence of this event. Method: this is a retrospective, analytical and quantitative study that included 218 medical records of patients who suffered in-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest and identified warning signs and alterations in...

Pain in emergency units: correlation with risk classification categories

Objetivos: correlacionar as categorias da classificação de risco com grau de dor dos pacientes em um serviço de emergência. Método: estudo transversal, realizado no Acolhimento com Classificação de Risco com 611 pacientes. As variáveis estudadas foram: idade, sexo, comorbidades, duração da queixa, especialidade médica, sinais e sintomas, desfecho, cor atribuída na classificação de risco e grau da dor. Utilizou-...

Orientação de alta e acompanhamento telefônico na adesão terapêutica da insufic...

Objective to evaluate the effectiveness of the behavioral intervention of discharge guidance and telephone follow-up in the therapeutic adherence, re-hospitalization and mortality of patients with heart failure. Method randomized clinical trial without blinding, including 201 patients diagnosed with heart failure admitted to the emergency room, who were randomized in Control Group and Intervention Group. Interv...

Nursing team knowledge on cardiopulmonary resuscitation

The objective of this study was to identify the theoretical knowledge of the nursing team on the cardiopulmonary resuscitation manoeuvres in basic life support, associating such knowledge to sociodemographic, economic and professional training variables. This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study, in which the data were obtained from questionnaires applied to 351 employees of a nursing team o...

Pain in emergency units: correlation with risk classification categories

Associação da capacidade funcional com o risco de queda em idosos em serviço de...

Objective: to associate the functional capacity with the risk of falling of the older adults in emergency service. Methods: this is a cross-sectional and analytical study, in which 101 individuals, aged 60 years old and older, of both genders, admitted to the Emergency Department. The Katz and Lawton/Brody scales were used to evaluate functional capacity and, the Downton scale was used for the risk of fallings....