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This study presents the process of validation of a tool that classifies patients in four levels of dependence to the nursing care delivered at a University Hospital. The research gave to participants an opportunity to analyse patients' needs, showing the instrument as an efficient tool for nursing practice.
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Activities of Daily Living , Nursing Assessment/methods , Nursing Care/classification , Patients/classification , Humans , Needs Assessment , Nursing Assessment/standards , Nursing Evaluation ResearchABSTRACT
This is an experimental research based on microbiological analysis. Our aim was to evaluate the influence of sugar on the healing process of infected surgical wounds in 25 patients. On the dehiscences, there have been identified gram positive and gram negative bacteria, and fungi as well. Every patient was administered systemic antibiotics and had the wounds treated locally with crystal sugar three times a day. Statistics showed, by Person's correlation, that sugar did not influence on the healing process of infected surgical wounds in undernourished, overweight and elderly individuals.
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Carbohydrates/therapeutic use , Surgical Wound Infection/drug therapy , Wound Healing/drug effects , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Obesity/complications , Protein-Energy Malnutrition/complicationsABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the psychodynamic of the nursing work developed in the hospital, and to suggest the implementation of an interdisciplinary programme for support the nursing workers to help them to understand and to solve social and managerial problems faced during the work.
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Interprofessional Relations , Nursing Staff, Hospital/organization & administration , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Workload , Humans , Nursing Assistants/organization & administration , Nursing Assistants/psychology , Nursing Staff, Hospital/psychology , Problem SolvingABSTRACT
The authors describe their experience as a multiprofessional team working at two Basic Health Units (BHU) in Londrina city in 1995. The work involved medical, nursing students and residents. The goals were: a) to train BHU teams in the assistance of diabetic patients; b) expose students to teaching experiences at the BHUs, emphasizing multiprofessionality; c) to establish an hierarchy and provide suitable treatment for the BHUs diabetic clientele. A total of 106 diabetic patients were assisted. The project involved 22 students and 37 professionals. A questionnaire assessment indicated that the goals were achieved. The experience is considered valid as a teaching and inservice training.
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Diabetes Mellitus/nursing , Inservice Training/organization & administration , Patient Care Team , Personnel, Hospital/education , Clinical Competence , Curriculum , Hospital Units , Hospitals, University , Humans , Program Evaluation , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Using an instrument of evaluation of theoretical knowledge, the authors have assessed the capacity of understanding and memorizing often groups of diabetes' carriers, that were being followed by a multiprofessional team from the ambulatory of the HURNP. The evaluation included the discussion of a variety of subjects which were part of the activities of an Educational Program. Only one group of patients showed a satisfactory performance. Individual analysis showed that young diabetes' carriers, that were motivated and had good level of understanding, had a better performance. It was concluded that the evaluation allows the selection of patients that need specific reinforcement and that a plan of activities can be elaborated according to the tested subjects.
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Ambulatory Care/organization & administration , Diabetes Mellitus/prevention & control , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Patient Education as Topic/organization & administration , Educational Measurement , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Program EvaluationABSTRACT
The authors through individual interviews have analyzed the way cancer patients got to know about their illness and how these information influenced their lives, family and their feelings. Suggestions have been made after evaluating the results reached in this research.
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Attitude to Health , Emotions , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Neoplasms/psychology , Patient Care Team , Perception , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Child , Female , Humans , Interview, Psychological , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplasms/nursing , Nurse-Patient RelationsABSTRACT
This issue is about a teaching methodology developed by the Medical-Surgical subject of Nursing on Graduate Course at Universidade Estadual de Londrina. The teachers used the student-centered teaching process based on interpersonal relationship and problem solving method. The aim was to evaluate the last period of nursing students perception about developing of cognitive, affective and psychomotor abilities when compared with others subjects of nursing course since 1985 until 1990. This method of teaching supplied more integration among theory and practice, more ability in developing library search and oral exposition, besides more active student participation on his apprenticeship process.
