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Objective: To identify changes in nursing practice to improve the quality of care and patient safety., Method: A case study conducted at an inpatient unit with professionals from the patient safety centre and a nursing team, totalling 31 participants. Data were collected from May to December 2015 through interviews, observations recorded in a field journal, and documentary analysis, followed by content analysis., Results: The changes observed in the nursing practice included the identification of care and physical risks, especially the risk of falls and pressure injury, with the use of personal forms and the Braden scale; notification of adverse events; adoption of protocols; effective communication with permanent education and multiprofessional meetings., Conclusions: Changes were observed in the nursing practice, chiefly focused on risk management.

Objective: to identify the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, trait and state anxiety, and intimate partner violence during pregnancy., Method: observational, cross-sectional study developed with 358 pregnant women. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist - Civilian Version was used, as well as the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and an adapted version of the instrument used in the World Health Organization Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence., Results: after adjusting to the multiple logistic regression model, intimate partner violence, occurred during pregnancy, was associated with the indication of posttraumatic stress disorder. The adjusted multiple linear regression models showed that the victims of violence, in the current pregnancy, had higher symptom scores of trait and state anxiety than non-victims., Conclusion: recognizing the intimate partner violence as a clinically relevant and identifiable risk factor for the occurrence of anxiety disorders during pregnancy can be a first step in the prevention thereof.

The present work presents a mixed study that evaluates the factors related to the basic formation in sexuality for Portuguese nurses of primary health care. 1735 nurses working in the 18 Health Sub-Regions of the Continent and the 2 Health Regional Secretaries of the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and Azores, corresponding to 226 Health Centers, were studied between March 2004 and July 2005. The profile of the Portuguese primary health care nurse with basic training on sexuality is between 22/30 years of age, 1/7 years of professional exercise, single, resident in Madeira or Azores, with bachelor degree and from a private nursing school. The nurses with special training in sexuality are essentially nurses with more than 38 years of age, with more than 13 years of professional exercise, seaside or Azores resident, specialists in one nursing branch, a masters degree and from public nursing schools. It was found that the 31-37 age group shows a deficit either in basic or specific training about sexuality.

Hansen's Disease is a contagious, milenar disease caused by the Mycobacterium leprae that manifests itself in the cutaneal cells and the peripheral nerves. In the decade of 1990, the control for the disease was descentralized from the state to the municipality level. A northeastern state in Brazil implemented a series of training programs for health professionals in primary attention. The objective of this study was to evaluate these training programs, based on the opinions of the physicians and nurses in the family health teams. The results indicate that the professionals evaluated the training program positively as to its implementation and the achievement of its objective. It is concluded that the training programs need to continue with changes that can contribute to future programs.

The present study identified and analyzed the opinions of nurses and nursing professionals about the more common risk factors regarding errors in medicine administration as well as the consequences, interventions and measures to minimize this problem. Therefore, the authors applied an instrument of data collection with questions on the opinions of the nursing professionals who work at the Basic Health Units from a city of the state of São Paulo. Results showed that the risk factors associated to the professional were lack of attention and difficulty to understand medical prescriptions. The interventions were related to punishment and education and the proposals to minimize the occurrences were orientation and up-date of the involved professionals.

This study aims to identify the generic competence required of doctors and nurses working in a primary health care. It was based on a series of 3 round of the Delphi technique which identified 8 generic competencies: ability to communicate, ability to be community oriented, ability in teamwork, management skills, educational skills, ability to problem solving, professional skills, ability to make-decision. Only the competence management skills there was not consensus by doctors. They disagree that this competence is required by them working in primary health care.

The present study aims to be a contribution to the Nursing student and the nurse's daily use of the Nursing process; the investigation method used was qualitative, applying semi-structured research tools; the data obtained were confronted with theoretical references and were put together in themes. The results show that the Nursing students and the nurses recognize the true value of the Nursing process, although they are not so sure about its practical use, and for them the Nursing schools should have the responsibility of promoting discussions in order to establish the theoretical references that would support the Nursing process. In other words, the schools should define one or more Nursing Theories and/or Conceptual References and its following methodologic definitions to be used on teaching the Nursing process.

The paper describes the author's experience on guiding "health workshops" as a way to sensitize nurses that take care of HIV-positive and AIDS patients through the development of humanized attention to their customers, according to Jean Watson's Trans-personal Care Theory. To do so, as a starting point we used the professionals reasoning throughout their career to highlight the importance of this approach.

With this study the authors want to furnish the nurses with one more reference source to guide their actions in caring for the patient that use psychopharmaco. It is described the pharmacological groups and considerations are made about the care with patients that are using them.

The aim of this research was to identify the theoretical methodological model that are basing the development of the management function in planning, according the nursing practices, in the School Hospital of the University of São Paulo. Based on the results the nurses emphasized the importance of introducing the reference of planning strategies in the practice in order to make changes.

Professional evasion of nurses is a concern because there was an investment from State, family and from the individual himself and there is a lack of nurses at work field. We have collected, in an intentional sample, the opinion of nurses about the reasons that made them quit nursing, the nursing knowledge they use in their actual activity and their suggestions to avoid evasion. We have checked out according to the answers that nurse's evasion is based on a set of circumstances from strictly personal ones to formal education as well as others resulting from the social and political structure.

This paper discusses some of the ergonomics conditions that contribute to the development of musculoskeletal disorders of the vertebral column and relates these conditions to the occupational activities of the nursing staff.

This study aims to verify the use of the touch by nurses according to LE MAY'S proposal (1986), as well as to verify when and why he uses it, according to his own perception. Thirty-seven nurses (20 teachers, 16 assistants and 01 who was attending a specialization course) were interviewed in September 1995 in the capital and other cities of the State of São Paulo, showing that the majority of the collected samples mentioned touch in an expressive manner, referring to using it mainly to demonstrate empathies and security on moments where patient's emotion were perceived.

Alcohol which, at first, is part of great ceremonies, parties, get-togethers, is now becoming an important issue, for the number of women who consume alcoholic beverages has increased, and consequently the number of pregnant women, considering that not only the mother's body but also the one of the child that is being formed, are under metabolic changes, and inevitably will be a target for acquired alcohol alterations (intake). During the human development, it is important to take into consideration the pregnancy stage and depending on it, the individual becomes susceptible to teratogenic agents. This paper aims at providing some contribution related to this social issue bringing knowledge on the action of alcohol on the fetus alterations, from the slightest (irritability, lack of attention, mobility deficiency) until Fetal Alcoholic Syndrome (F.A.S.) and also tries to analyse the extent of people knowledge on the consequences of alcohol effects over pregnant women bodies and the possible changes that may occur with the fetus. In order to make this study possible, interviews have been made by the use of forms with a population sample of about 100 people living in the northern, western, southern and interior low land regions. We have also visited some public and private institutions (23) on those regions, interviewing nurses in paediatric wards, aiming at identifying the difficulties found related to the diagnosis and management towards F.A.S.

The objective of this study was to identify the nurse's knowledge of the strategies of therapeutic and non-therapeutic communication and to evaluate their application on the professional and social practice. The strategies considered in this study were the ones proposed by Stefanelli (1985). The results have shown that nurses do not know the strategies although 42.1% said that at some time point during their academic life they were exposed to their content.