Oral hygiene has been shown to reduce adverse events and promote the quality of life of patients with stroke. However, a stroke can result in the impairment of physical, sensory, and cognitive abilities, and comprise self-care. Although nurses recognize its benefits, there are areas for improvement in the implementation of the best evidence-based recommendations. The aim is to promote compliance with the best e...
Introduction and objectives: Sexually transmitted infections are a public health problem affecting 45% of adolescents and young adults worldwide. The evidence suggests that primary care settings are uniquely positioned to provide an opportunity for these preventive interventions. The aim of this project is to improve nurses' interventions for preventing risky sexual behaviors in adolescents attending nursing co...
Background: A large number of workers attend work despite being ill. Attending work during sickness can have a number of consequences for the worker (e.g., worsening of physical and mental condition), for co-workers, and for the company, and for service users. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the factors influencing presenteeism and mental health of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: ...
Telehealth is increasingly taking place to support the transition of care and self-management of people living with cancer in outpatient oncology settings. Despite its recognised value, the scientific evidence points to disparities with regard to implementation of telehealth that might compromise the equity of access. Following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) implementation approach, this project aims to prom...
Background: In palliative care, symptoms are multiple and combined, evolving and changing, with a multidimensional character and multifactorial causes, and a high prevalence, negatively influencing the patient’s and family’s quality of life. Nurses who provide palliative care need to recognize and respond effectively to their patients’ symptoms. Methods: A project will be applied to implement the best practice ...
Este artigo tem como objetivo definir o conceito da percepção como o sujeito representa para si o espaço público numa perspectiva crítica. Este estudo parte da hipótese que a modernidade produz cidades em que o sujeito se encontra desapropriado do território, em espaços antagônicos para o exercício da cidadania. A nossa metodologia se encontra no campo da Filosofia da Educação na perspectiva da hermenêutica, na...
Introduction: The birth of a child is an event that causes a series of changes in roles and family dynamics. Studying grandfatherhood is finding the grandfather's prominent role in family health. Objetives: To describe the process of transition to grand parenting as a grandfather and to characterize the performance of the grandparent role in the figure of man as grandfather in family health. Methods: A qualitat...
Introdução: O nascimento de uma criança é um acontecimento que provoca uma série de alterações nos papéis desempenhados e na dinâmica familiar. Estudar a grã-parentalidade no masculino é encontrar o papel de destaque do avô na saúde da família. Objetivos: Descrever o processo de transição para a grã-parentalidade do homem enquanto avô e caracterizar o desempenho do papel grã-parental na figura do homem enquanto...
Este artigo propõe uma reflexão acerca da questão da emancipação do sujeito e dos processos formativos que possam romper com a hegemonia tradicionalismo das pedagogias modernas, que podem ser representadas nas proposições de Johann F. Herbart, que se pauta no conhecimento explicativo perante o saber como forma constituinte do conhecimento. Na modernidade, ocorre uma predominância em querer saber e uma resistênc...
The practice of immersion in burn patient has been abandoned in many parts of the world but in Brazil it is still common. The aim of this study was to ascertain if balneotherapy is a risk factor for Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in thermally injured patients. Eighteen patients from a Burn Center were studied for 14 weeks for Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Samples were collected by swabbing the exudate of wounds,...