Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem最新文献

Objective: to evaluate the construct validity and reliability of the Brazilian version of the Instrument for the Evaluation of Advanced Practice Nurse Competencies in Primary Health Care.

Method: methodological study carried out in 78 primary health care centers in the southeast of Brazil, with 215 nurses. Data was collected using three instruments: the sample characterization form, the Brazilian version of the Advanced Practice Nurse Competency Assessment Instrument and the Therapeutic Interventions category of the Nurse Competency Scale. Construct validity was verified using confirmatory factor analysis and Spearman's correlation coefficient. Reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability.

Results: in the factor analysis, the model converged on a satisfactory result, with six items excluded, resulting in an instrument with 38 items distributed over eight dimensions. In convergent construct validity, positive, significant correlations were observed (p<0.0001) and ranged from weak to moderate in magnitude (r=0.2701 and r=0.397). Satisfactory evidence was found through the Composite Reliability analysis (0.78-0.89).

Conclusion: the instrument showed evidence of construct validity and internal consistency. It could be used to help implement strategies for developing advanced practice in nursing.

Background: (1) Encourage discussion on Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) in Brazil. (2) To provide an instrument for evaluating APN in Primary Health Care. (3) To help implement APN in Brazil in Primary Health Care. (4) The Brazilian version of the instrument can be applied in different contexts. (5) A strategy for strengthening the nursing workforce.

Objective: to understand the perception of teachers and health professionals regarding the use of the Play Nicely Program for parents/caregivers in the prevention of violence against children.

Method: a descriptive and exploratory qualitative study was conducted through three focus groups with twenty primary school teachers and primary health care professionals who implemented the Program for parents/caregivers in 2022. The data analysis was guided by French discourse analysis, interpreted through the lens of Urie Bronfenbrenner's theory.

Results: three categories emerged from the participants' perceptions: innovation and utility; theory applicability in practice; reinterpreting attitudes of austerity and impatience towards children; disciplining rather than punishing children: dilemmas and challenges. The testimonies highlighted that the Program is innovative, easily accessible, clear in language, and easy to apply in practice for parents/caregivers.

Conclusion: the use of the Program added knowledge and fostered positive attitudes toward the development of the bioecological system in addressing and preventing violence against children.

Objective: to map the available evidence on the characteristics of care coordination between Primary Health Care and Specialized Outpatient Care for users with diabetes and hypertension.

Method: this is a scoping review with 40 articles as the final sample, evaluated by means of Content Analysis, of the thematic-categorical type, with the aid of a technological tool.

Results: care coordination was defined by means of eight categories: information and communication, integration of care, improvement and quality, care management, care sharing, fundamental attribute, health professionals and health service users, with the results of the articles concentrating mainly on four categories, with information and communication standing out, followed by the category of care management and the category of care sharing, in parallel with improvement and quality.

Conclusion: technological tools are a first step in ensuring the coordination of care, proving to be a significant feature, with emphasis on studies on the sharing of information between health services through electronic medical records. However, although this technology has proved to be advantageous for the health system, with good results, it is not the only means of ensuring the coordination of care.

Objective: to demonstrate the sizing of intensive care nursing staff estimated by two calculations, using the Nursing Activities Score as one of its central components.

Method: descriptive, retrospective study that compiled the Nursing Activities Score scores of patients in five Intensive Care Units of a hospital in southern Brazil. Two calculations were used to size the nursing staff. In addition to other components, calculation I converted the Nursing Activities Score into minutes and hours; and calculation II used this score on a denominator corresponding to one nursing professional/day, considering two types of work shifts. In both equations, the proportion of 52% of nurses was respected.

Results: in the 9,610 evaluations, the mean of Nursing Activities Score was 85.9% (80.8% to 96.4%). While calculation I estimated 164 professionals, calculation II projected 176 and 140 workers for five and four shifts, respectively. The difference in nurses between the methods was 18 professionals.

Conclusion: the choice of the calculation and the number of work shifts substantially interfere in the estimation of intensive care nursing staff. This may support a methodological review in the standardization of nursing sizing in this area.

Objective: to explore the nurses' perceptions among the quality of care to stroke patients in a public hospital in Northern Honduras.

Method: a descriptive phenomenological study was carried out. The data collection was conducted by means of depth- interviews to 20 general nurses from the emergency and clinical medicine departments from the Atlántida General Hospital. Data analysis was by thematic technique.

Results: the research found three key themes, and 10 subthemes, which illustrated the quality of stroke patients care in a general hospital from Honduras. The finding points up the theme "negative outcomes regarding the structure dimension of the patient care units", which means the failure to improve or maintain the quality of healthcare. Likewise, "positive outcomes regarding the nursing process", defined as pleasant and helpful among the care of stroke patients, such as ethical and humanized caring, and activities on promoting patient self-care with involvement of the relatives.

Conclusion: the results indicate that Honduran nurses do not have qualified graduate training in critical care, which is a limitation that compromises the quality of care. Therefore, it is recommended to have clear organization structures and better resources managing, consequently, it may increase user satisfaction, as well as reducing hospital stays.

to evaluate community health workers' and quality of home visits associated factors.

a cross-sectional study of 38,865 teams and 140,444 Primary Care Access and Quality Improvement Program users. We established the "quality of home visits" and its association with the characteristics of the municipalities, teams and individuals, estimated by the prevalence ratio and 95% confidence intervals.

139,362 (99.2%) users said the health team had community workers. The prevalence of quality was 51.9%. After adjustments, the prevalence was higher in the Northeast (Prevalence Ratio: 1.19 [1.18-1.21]), smaller municipalities (PR: 1.06 [1.03-1.09]), among teams with area definition (PR: 1.15 [1.06-1.25]), evaluation of indicators (PR: 1.14 [1.12-1.17]) and user satisfaction (PR: 1.11 [1.08-1.13]), that considered risk and vulnerability criteria for defining the number of people under responsibility (PR: 1.05 [1.04-1.07]) and without an uncovered population of workers (PR: 1.03 [1.01-1.04]); among users with chronic diseases (PR: 1.02 [1.01-1.05]) and with someone at home with walking difficulties (PR: 1.05 [1.02-1.07]).

the importance of organizing the teams' work process for the quality of the worker's home visits and their role in health equity is highlighted.

to construct, validate and evaluate an app for mobile devices on humanized care practices for newborns at habitual risk in maternity wards, aimed at health professionals and family members.

a methodological study in seven stages: Literature review; Content organization; App construction; Validation by experts; Suitability after validation; Evaluation by the target audience; and Suitability after evaluation. A total of 22 experts took part in the validation and 21 individuals from the target audience in the evaluation. The instruments addressed content, face and/or motivation, with the System Usability Scale for usability. The following was calculated: Concordance Index and Usability Score.

in the validation process, the app achieved a Concordance Index of 0.97; ranging from 0.82 to 1.0 across the items analyzed. In the evaluation, the index was 0.99, varying from 0.95 to 1.0. In usability of the first version, the Concordance Index was 0.92 and the Usability Score was 93. In the second version, the index was 0.93 and the score was 94, indicating better usability achieved since the first version.

the " Nasci Bem " app proved to be comprehensible, relevant, pertinent, efficient, easy to use, with low inconsistency, and with excellent potential to use it as educational technology for professionals and family members.

to unveil the experiences of transsexual men during childbirth and postpartum in the light of the Theory of Diversity and Universality of Cultural Care.

a qualitative and descriptive study using the multiple case study method. Data was collected using an intentional sample of five transsexual men, selected on the basis of convenience and availability. The interviews were transcribed in full and the results were organized and adapted to the Sunrise Model.

the majority of the participants were «primiparous» and had given birth by cesarean section. In adapting the Sunrise Model, we observed the encouragement of medicalization and mechanistic management of childbirth; fear of natural childbirth; violence perpetrated against transsexual men resulting from the difficulty of access to information by the pregnant man, and obstetric care not qualified to meet the needs of the public, resulting in fragile care, with dissatisfaction with the health service.

the experiences of transsexual men during childbirth and the postpartum period are a mixture of experiences that generate damage, especially when linked to situations of transphobic violence and violation of rights.

to map the characteristics and purposes of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies for the elderly in the community.

scoping review, according to JBI recommendations and described according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews. Ten databases and four platforms referring to gray literature were included. Studies were selected after duplicates were removed and individual and peer reviews were carried out. Similarity analysis was used to identify competition between words and their results.

20 studies on VR for the elderly were mapped, the majority of which used non-immersive devices. The main purpose of using VR with the elderly is to improve and/or rehabilitate functions that decline with aging, either physiologically or as a result of illness or injury. VR devices are a potential tool for the prevention of falls and cognitive decline and favor the performance of instrumental activities of daily living. Similarity analysis resulted in the generation of a maximum tree, which identified the interrelationship between the terms "virtual reality" and "elderly" as the central and intermediate elements, respectively.

it is recommended that further studies be carried out in other environments, which could allow for a wider use of VR by health professionals, especially nurses, in the care provided to the elderly.

to develop and validate two clinical simulation guides to support and disseminate a culture of safety in the surgical environment.

methodological study supported by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning theoretical framework. The snowball technique was used to validate the clinical guidelines with experts on the subject. Two scales validated for Brazil were used for the pilot test.

89 operating room professionals took part, including 41 doctors, 40 nursing technicians, four nurses, two radiology technicians, and two nursing trainees. Two guides were created, one on conflict management and teamwork in patient safety during the transfer of the patient from the operating room to the post-anesthetic recovery room, and the other dealing with the assistance of the healthcare team in the transfer of care in the post-anesthetic recovery room. The evaluation of Satisfaction with Simulated Clinical Experiences had an average score of 8.3 and Satisfaction and Self-confidence in learning 4.1.

the guides have been validated and are suitable for replication in any surgical environment. We believe that this technology could contribute to improving the safety culture in the operating room by providing an opportunity for reflection and critical thinking.