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Objetivo: caracterizar e qualificar escalas de avaliação de risco de quedas validadas para emprego entre pacientes adultos hospitalizados. Método: revisão integrativa da literatura que incluiu investigações desenvolvidas entre pacientes hospitalizados com idade igual ou superior a 18 anos, consultadas as bases de dados LILACS, PubMed, CINAHL e Embase. Resultados: localizaram-se 319 artigos, dos quais 9 foram incluídos nesta revisão. A maioria das escalas foi criada entre os anos de 1989 e 1999, para avaliação de riscos entre adultos e idosos. Os domínios mobilidade (88,8%), história de queda (88,8%), estado mental (66,6%), incontinência (77,7%), uso de medicamentos (66,6%) e déficit sensorial (55,5%) foram mais frequentemente empregados. Quatro escalas (44,4%) apresentaram resultados de testes para avaliação de propriedades psicométricas. Conclusão: as escalas encontradas na literatura científica não apresentaram consenso entre os domínios para predição de quedas e a maioria não foi submetida à avaliação das propriedades psicométricas recomendadas.Descritores: Acidentes por Quedas. Avaliação em Enfermagem. Técnicas, Medidas, Equipamentos de Medição. Adulto. Enfermagem.

ABSTRACT Objective: Develop and validate the content of an instrument for patient risk classification in emergency services of Primary Health Care. Method: The study included two stages: item generation and content validity. A literature review and retrospective analysis of medical records were conducted to create the instrument items. The Content Validity Ratio (CVR) was used to assess agreement among judges during content validation. Results: In the first and second rounds, 75 and 71 judges validated the risk classification instrument, respectively. The minimum adherence score for the latent variable item based on the final number of judges was 0.22 and 0.18; thus, 52 items, divided into three classification categories (red, orange, and yellow), were retained. Conclusion: The instrument was considered valid regarding clarity, relevance, pertinence, and agreement regarding the severity indicated in the item.

ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the knowledge of responsible technical nurses in relation to the general and management skills required to perform this function. Method: Qualitative case study with 14 nurses. The semi-structured interviews were recorded and the data analyzed through the thematic content analysis. Results: Two categories stood out: Main Responsibilities for the Position of Technical Manager: Leadership, Interpersonal Relationship and Systemic view; and Developing Skills: Dissociation between Theory and Practice. Final considerations: The fact that only three skills have been recognized as necessary for the exercise of the function of technical leader and the perception of the interviewees about the dissociation between theory and practice during graduation should be explored by the teaching and health institutions, because to exercise this nurses must develop the technical-scientific, socio-educational and ethical-political skills to be able to lead the organization to positive results..

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the evidence available in the literature on non-adherence to immunosuppressive therapy among patients undergoing liver transplantation. Method: integrative literature review, including research whose sample consisted of patients aged over 18 years undergoing liver transplantation. It excluded those containing patients undergoing multiple organ transplants. For the selection of articles, Medline / Pubmed, CINAHL, LILACS, Scopus and Embase were searched. The search period corresponded to the initial date of indexation of different bases, up to the deadline of February 10, 2015, using controlled and uncontrolled descriptors: liver transplantation, hepatic transplantation, liver orthotopic transplantation, medication adherence, medication non-adherence, medication compliance and patient compliance. Results: were located 191 investigations, 10 of which met the objectives of the study and were grouped into four categories, namely: educational process and non-adherence; non-adherence related to the number of daily doses of immunosuppressive medications; detection methods for non-adherence and side effects of therapy. Conclusion: there were risk factors related to the health service, such as control and reduction of the number of doses; related to the individual, such as being male, divorced, alcohol or other substances user, exposed to low social support and being mentally ill.

ABSTRACT Objective To compare the characteristics of the work environment that enable the professional practice of nurses in private and public organizations. Methods A quantitative, exploratory, cross-section study, carried out in four health organizations - one public and three private, with 188 registered nurses. Participants answered the Brazilian version of the Nursing Work Index − Revised, which aims to evaluate the presence of characteristics that favor the development of nursing activities through 15 items distributed into three subscales: autonomy, control over the practice setting and relationships with physicians. The measurement scale used is Likert, and lower scores represent better evaluation of the environment, i.e. , more favorable characteristics are present to assist the development of nursing activities. Results The means of the responses of participants of private hospitals were smaller in all subscales of the instrument, as compared to those from public hospitals. Conclusion The environment of private hospitals showed more favorable characteristics to the professional practice of registered nurses than the public hospital environment.