Background/Objectives: The prevalence of people with incurable and progressive diseases in primary health care is high. Family doctors and nurses must be active agents in the early identification of palliative needs and the implementation of palliative approaches in cases of low to intermediate complexity. While there is a need for early referral of more complex palliative care (PC) cases to specialized teams, ...
Background Countries with formal policies for palliative care, and advanced and integrated practices in this field, such as Portugal, face challenges in achieving excellence in care, particularly in home-based assistance. Issues include care coordination among providers, confusion regarding the roles of each health care professional in the network, and a lack of monitoring and evaluation of actions. Our objecti...
Objective: To reflect on the order of non-resuscitation at COVID-19 in Brazil, under bioethical focus and medical and nursing professional ethics.Method: Reflection study based on the principialist bioethics of Beauchamps and Childress and professional ethics, problematizing actions and decisions of non-resuscitation in the pandemic.Results: Consider careful clinical evaluation of the patient, with an appropria...
Objective: to characterize the sociodemographic and clinical-pathological profile of women hospitalized with metastatic or advanced local breast cancer. Method: quantitative descriptive study, carried out in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from March to July 2017. The study included 199 women hospitalized in the clinical ward. Data were collected from the medical records and through interviews, using a fo...
RESUMOObjetivos: Identificar os principais domínios de qualidade de vida afetados em mulheres com câncer de mama localmente avançadoou metastático hospitalizadas; e analisar a associação entre o nível de qualidade de vida e o estadiamento do câncer.Método: Estudo transversal, quantitativo, realizado no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, entre março e julho de 2017. Entrevistaram-se 199mulheres. Aplicou-se o European Organ...
This study aimed at identifying how safety management is applied by nurses to manage the nursing care, and at analyzing their challenges in onco-hematology pediatric wards. Descriptive and qualitative research, conducted at the Instituto Estadual de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2013. Six nurses were interviewed, and the content analysis was used. The key aspects r...
Objetivou-se identificar como a gestão de segurança é aplicada pelo enfermeiro no âmbito do gerenciamento do cuidado de enfermagem, e analisar os seus desafios nas enfermarias de onco-hematologia pediátrica. Pesquisa descritiva, qualitativa, realizada no Instituto Estadual de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, em agosto de 2013. Seis enfermeiros foram entrevistados e utilizou...
This study aimed at identifying how safety management is applied by nurses to manage the nursing care, and at analyzing their challenges in onco-hematology pediatric wards. Descriptive and qualitative research, conducted at the Instituto Estadual de Hematologia Arthur de Siqueira Cavalcanti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2013. Six nurses were interviewed, and the content analysis was used. The key aspects r...
The objective was to identify evidences of comprehensive care in the professional practice of the nursing staff in the context of oncology palliative care. In this descriptive, qualitative study, seven nurses and four nursing technicians were interviewed. Thematic analysis resulted two thematic units: Evidences of comprehensive care in the practice of the nursing professionals and teamwork as the premise of com...
OBJECTIVE: to understand the meaning baccalaureate nurses and nursing technicians attribute to night work in the context of clinical palliative oncology nursing care services, as well as how nursing works to attend to clients and caregivers' needs in this period. METHOD: in this exploratory and qualitative study, grounded theory was used. Seven nurses and four nursing technicians were interviewed, who composed ...