Nowadays, health care humanization is a growing demand in the Brazilian context. However, in practice, it has not occurred, mainly in urgency and emergency care services. This study aimed to examine how companions perceive emergency care humanization at a public referral institution in Fortaleza-Ce/Brazil, in the second semester of 2006. Ten companions participated in data collection, at the end of each care se...
This study aimed to investigate how much families know about precipitating factors for asthmatic crisis in children; to identify their actions when a crisis occurs and the resources used to control it. It is a Cross-sectional and descriptive research, involving 50 relatives of children with asthma, using structured interviews. The results of the study show higher prevalence of asthma in children from 1 to 7 yea...
This is a descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, which has the purpose of investigating users demands to ombudsman regarding nursing assistance and to discuss their contribution for continuous education. This research work was carried out in the public Federal hospital, which is a national reference in diagnostics and therapy of high complexity in Orthopedics. Data collection was based on t...
This is a descriptive study that aimed to identify the self-care deficits of institutionalized elderly women. It was carried out during the second semester 2009, in a nursing home in Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. For data collection we used a semi-structured interview schedule, focusing on conditioning factors and self-care requirements, applied to 24 elderly women. The results show that the main reasons that led to th...
The aim of this research is to learn about the intervenient factors that contribute with the diffi culties felt by the care taker in the activities developed by the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease. The sceneries chosen for this study were support groups of care takers and relatives of elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease or similar dementia. Eight care takers who attended support groups participated in this...
This is a descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, which has the purpose of investigating users demands to ombudsman regarding nursing assistance and to discuss their contribution for continuous education. This research work was carried out in the public Federal hospital, which is a national reference in diagnostics and therapy of high complexity in Orthopedics. Data collection was based on t...
This study had as objective to investigate the reactions felt and noticed by a patient submitted to an emergency heart surgery, whose time space between the diagnosis and the surgery accomplishment was insufficient for the preoperative routine preparation. The data were collected through an interview accomplished with the patient 30 days after his/her hospital leaving, at home. The analysis let us to contemplat...
This is a descriptive study that involved 63 blind people who live in the urban zone of the city of Sobral/CE that aimed at knowing their profile and the way they face adversities in their family life and society. The study was carried out from May 2002 to November 2003. Data were collected through home visits and free interviews. The outcomes show that most of the people studied are female (36); are older than...
This study had as objective to investigate the reactions felt and noticed by a patient submitted to an emergency heart surgery, whose time space between the diagnosis and the surgery accomplishment was insufficient for the preoperative routine preparation. The data were collected through an interview accomplished with the patient 30 days after his/her hospital leaving, at home. The analysis let us to contemplat...
Estudo descritivo, cujo objetivo foi identificar os déficits de autocuidado de idosas institucionalizadas. Foi desenvolvido durante o segundo semestre de 2009, numa instituição asilar de Fortaleza-CE. Para coleta de dados, utilizou-se um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada, com enfoque nos fatores condicionantes e nos requisitos para o autocuidado, aplicado em 24 idosas. Os resultados denotaram que os princip...