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Objective: To assess the perceptions of mothers and health professionals about the dog-assisted therapy for children with congenital Zika Virus syndrome.

Method: Qualitative, descriptive-exploratory research, with six mothers of children with congenital Zika Virus syndrome and six health professionals. Data were obtained at a Brazilian Specialized rehabilitation center in Paraíba, through semi-structured interviews, between February and October 2019. The empirical material was subjected to Inductive Thematic Analysis and interpreted using the Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory.

Results: Dog-Assisted Therapy allowed the enhancement of skills that were previously not performed by children, such as: spontaneous hand opening, head control, improved social interaction, reduction of seizure episodes and disruption of spasticity patterns.

Final considerations: Dog-Assisted Therapy was perceived as qualified, humanized and satisfactory support for the evolution of the neuropsychomotor development of children with congenital Zika Virus syndrome.

Objective: To understand the socio-emotional competencies mobilized by nurse leaders during and after facing the Covid-19 pandemic in a university hospital.

Method: Case study, conducted with sixteen nurses working in the leadership of units and services at a university hospital in northeastern Brazil. Data collected in two moments through semi-structured interviews. The interviews took place between August to December 2022 and January to August 2023. An inductive and coded thematic analysis was performed, according to the bucket theme technique, assisted by the NVivo12 software and supported by the grouping of twenty-five items included in the Socio-emotional competence scale.

Results: During the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, nurses expressed a mix of emotions due to their lack of knowledge about the disease. Faced with the climate of fear and the feeling of helplessness, they developed strategies that minimized the risks of illness and death. Two categories emerged: Emotional climate experienced by nurses and Coping strategies developed by nurses in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Final considerations: The competencies of social awareness, regulation, self-control, creativity, and emotional awareness were identified in the nurses' reports. These skills contributed to coping with the pandemic period, through the participation, involvement, and integration of professionals.

Objective: To analyze the relational and functional aspects of patient safety through the experiences reported by the patients themselves and/or their caregivers in intensive care units.

Method: Scoping review developed with searches, in September 2021 and updated in November 2022, in the following databases: Virtual Health Library, considering only the LILACS, BDENF, IBECS, ColecionaSUS databases; SCIELO, PsycINFO, EMBASE, COCHRANE, CINAHL, SCOPUS and Web of Science.

Results: The final selection included 14 articles highlighting communication as an essential relational factor for care safety. The most predominant functional aspects were physical care environment, structured protocols, and the performance of professionals in the care process.

Conclusion: Communication processes were predominant in relational aspects and were decisive for functional aspects, with emphasis on the performance of professionals in the care process. Instruments developed for quality process analysis were used in most of the studies.

Objective: To assess the implementation of the bedside medication preparation process in an Intensive Care Unit, following a quality improvement cycle.

Method: A quasi-experimental study with non-paired samples, pre- and post-implementation, conducted in an Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in southern Brazil, from September 2022 to April 2023, following the guidelines of the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence 2.0. Adherence to bedside medication preparation, interruptions during preparation, adequate storage, identification and validity of multidose medications, and recording of storage refrigerator temperature were evaluated. Shapiro-Wilk and Mann-Whitney U tests were used for data analysis, and Carter's Positivity Index was used to determine compliance with observed practices.

Results: Forty-five audits were conducted pre-intervention and 122 audits three months after the implementation of the improvement cycle. All variables showed significant improvements. Overall compliance increased from 46% to 80% in the pre- and post-implementation periods, respectively, indicating a transition from "undesirable" to "safe" care stratum.

Conclusion: The study revealed a positive relationship between the implementation of a quality improvement cycle focused on medication preparation and improvements in patient safety.

Objective: to describe the introduction, potential, and challenges experienced by nurses in the provision of Integrative and Complementary Health Practices in the northeast f Brazil.

Method: A qualitative study conducted from June to December 2022 with 15 northeastern nurses qualified in Integrative and Complementary Practices. The data were produced through individual online interviews and submitted to content analysis.

Results: 15 nurses participated, and 23 integrative practices were cited, with a predominance of auriculotherapy, greater introduction in primary care and private nursing offices, highlighting labor and personal benefits. Their potential includes technical qualification for the practice and interest in continuing education. The hospital-centric view of professionals, the low diffusion on the theme in teaching, as well as the difficulty in pricing procedures and in developing clinical reasoning in other medical rationalities were cited as the main challenges.

Conclusion: Despite the challenges still faced, northeastern nurses are offering integrative practices to complement user care.

Objective: To analyze the knowledge about fibromyalgia of people with this diagnosis and its repercussions in coping with the disease.

Method: Qualitative research, based on the Social Representation Theory framework. Thirty people over 18 years old and from the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, participated. Snowball sampling was applied to recruit participants and a semi-structured interview was used to produce data, between April 2020 and January 2021. Statistical and lexicographic analysis was performed using Alceste.

Results: Most participants were women (93%); aged 41 to 60 years old (67%); of whom 63% were married; had been diagnosed 10 years ago or more (40%); and 40% participated in support groups. They did not know the name of the disease and its causes, but they mentioned its symptoms, mainly pain. Objectification of fibromyalgia occurs in painful symptoms and the lack of signs in the body generates misunderstanding among the people they live with. They share experiences in support groups to cope with the disease.

Conclusion: The subjective phenomenon of pain generates distrust about the disease. Diagnosis difficulties delay treatment and insufficient information generates judgments and stereotypes for patients. Prejudices and rejections have repercussions on coping with the disease.

Objective: Build and validate a realistic interprofessional simulation scenario for the identification and management of sepsis by doctors and nurses.

Method: Methodological study developed in 2021, in two stages: construction of the guide and content validation by expert judges; and development of the simulation and validation of the scenario by doctors and nurses. 15 specialists participated in the research in the first stage and eight care professionals in the second stage. 0.8 was adopted as a parameter for the Content Validation Index (CVI).

Results: The scenario guide addressed nosocomial sepsis with an abdominal focus in an adult patient and its validation obtained a total CVI of 0.97. All areas evaluated in the simulation scenario obtained agreement indices greater than 0.8.

Conclusion: The construction and validation of the guide allowed the elaboration of guiding material for the development of an interprofessional simulated scenario, whose execution and validation process demonstrated its suitability in approaching the identification and management of sepsis by doctors and nurses. It is recommended to carry out future research evaluating its applicability to other situational contexts.

Objectives: Identify the frequency of recurrent violence in cases reported in Espírito Santo and the associated factors.

Methods: Cross-sectional study. Which included data on violence in Espírito Santo from 2011 to 2018, from the Notifiable Diseases Information System, and, Statistical analyzes were performed using the chi-square test and Poisson regression.

Results: 54.2% (N:14.966) of reported cases of violence are repeated, and higher prevalences were associated with female sex (PR:1.54), child (PR: 1.29) or elderly victims (PR: 1.25), the presence of disabilities/disorders (PR:1.42) and occurrence in urban/peri-urban areas (PR: 1.10). Furthermore, there is a greater frequency of injuries caused by a single aggressor (PR: 1.20), man (PR: 1.28), aged 25 or over (PR: 1.09), known to the victim (PR: 2.81) and at home (PR: 1.69).

Conclusion: The reported cases of violence showed a high frequency of recurrence, and were associated with the studied characteristics of the victim, the aggressor and the event.

Objective: To identify in the literature the factors associated with the inconsistent use of conservation by the young population.

Method: Systematic review that searched for studies in six data sources in June 2023, with no publication date or language restrictions. Materials were selected by two independent reviewers who individually screened observational studies by reading the title and abstract of the articles. The studies were assessed for methodological quality and narrative synthesis.

Results: Of the 15,783 publications retrieved, nine were included. It was found that anal sex, not carrying a condom, low education, shame about buying condoms, drug use, early sexual debut and difficulties in negotiating condom use were factors associated with inconsistent condom use among the young population.

Conclusion: Multidimensional factors are associated with inconsistent condom use, permeated by sociodemographic, cultural and behavioral elements that challenge practices and policies aimed at promoting sexual and reproductive health, including the control of sexually transmitted infections.