Development of the Patient Advocacy Scale for Intensive Care Nurses.

Background and Purpose: To describe the process of developing and validating the content of the Patient Advocacy Scale for Nurses in Intensive Care (EAPEnf-UTI). Methods: Methodological research. To achieve the elaboration objective, five stages were developed: (a) definition of the theme, (b) generation of the number of items, (c) determination of the measurement format, (d) validation of face and content, and (e) content adjustment. Results: The instrument elaborated from a survey and integrative literature review, and the measurement format chosen was the 5-point Likert scale. The validation of face and content was performed by expert judges and by pretest. The final instrument had 57 items. Conclusion: EAPEnf-UTI is a pioneering instrument built in the Brazilian context, whose future validation will allow the capturing of situations specific to intensive care units and the professional practice of intensive care nurses.

Cross Mapping Between the Priority Nursing Care for Stroke Patients Treated With Thrombolytic Therapy and the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC).

OBJECTIVE: To verify the correspondence between the priority nursing care for stroke patients treated with thrombolytic therapy and the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). METHODS: A cross-mapping study with a semi-structured interview was conducted with 11 expert nurses who described priority nursing care in clinical practice, and mapped it to the NIC. RESULTS: Eleven nursing care priorities cited by the nurses were mapped to eight NICs, including Thrombolytic Therapy Management (4270). CONCLUSIONS: There was correspondence between all priority nursing care interventions for stroke patients treated with thrombolytic therapy and the NIC. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: The nursing care cited by the nurses was corroborated by the NIC, providing evidence for the clinical practice. OBJETIVO: Verificar a correspondência entre os cuidados de enfermagem prioritários a pacientes com acidente vascular encefálico tratados com terapia trombolítica e a Classificação das Intervenções de Enfermagem (NIC). MÉTODOS: Estudo de mapeamento cruzado com uma entrevista semi-estruturada aplicada a 11 enfermeiros especialistas que descreveram os cuidados de enfermagem prioritários na prática clínica, e mapeados para a NIC. RESULTADOS: Onze cuidados de enfermagem prioritários foram citados pelos enfermeiros e mapeados em oito intervenções de enfermagem NIC, incluindo a Thrombolytic Therapy Management (4270). CONCLUSÕES: Houve correspondência entre todos os cuidados de enfermagem prioritários para pacientes com acidente vascular encefálico tratados com a terapia trombolítica e as intervençães de enfermagem NIC. IMPLICAÇÕES PARA A PRÁTICA DE ENFERMAGEM: Os cuidados de enfermagem citados pelos enfermeiros foram corroborados pela NIC, produzindo evidências para a prática clínica.

Iatrogenesis in intensive care units: dramatization of contemporary bio/ethical problems.

This qualitative investigation, based in Foucauldian analysis with approximations to the post-structuralism theoretical framework, explores iatrogenesis as one of the tensions in the nursing to do/to know which can be discursively articulated to bioethics and to technobiomedicine. The documentary sources and intensive interviews with nurses, permitted the activation of a reflection on the act of the nurse in a context permeated by the ever-present possibility of failure in both the procedure and in the conduct and, from this possibility, they should meet their obligation to correct this failure not so much or not only in knowledge, not so much or not only in law but in practice itself.