Patient safety in primary care: conceptions of family health strategy nurses. / Segurança do paciente na atenção primária: concepções de enfermeiras da estratégia de saúde da família.

OBJECTIVES: To understand the conceptions of nurses working in the Family Health Strategy about patient safety in primary health care and how they affect the daily actions of these professional. METHODS: A descriptive-exploratory study of a qualitative approach, carried out with nurses working in Family Health Strategies, in a municipality in the central region of RS. Data collection techniques were semi-structured interview and non-participant systematic observation, carried out from April to November 2017. The data were submitted to the Thematic Content Analysis. RESULTS: Data analysis resulted in three thematic categories addressing the meanings, difficulties and strategies related to safe care. CONCLUSIONS: The research shows the need for new studies on the subject. The reflections can contribute to nursing care with a view to patient safety, qualifying both nurses' work and health care in an expanded way.

[The importance of waste from healthcare services for teachers, students and graduates of the healthcare sector]. / A importância dos resíduos de serviços de saúde para docentes, discentes e egressos da área da saúde.

This study aimed to explore the perception healthcare sector teachers, students and graduates from two institutions of higher learning in Rio Grande do Sul, on the generation of waste from healthcare services. It used a qualitative research approach, performed with 13 teachers, 18 students and 12 healthcare professionals, who were collected through a focus group. The main results showed there is a perception toward the importance of proper segregation and disposal of Healthcare Service Waste, also there is a lack of concern for the reduction of these wastes. Therefore, the issue requires a broader understanding of the environment, with a view of planetary sustainability, exposing needs to provide the healthcare professionals with knowledge and awareness of the importance of handling these types of waste.

[Nursing undergraduate education in relation to the death-dying process: perceptions in light of the complex thinking]. / Formação do enfermeiro em relação ao processo de morte-morrer: percepções à luz do pensamento complex.

The objective of this study was to perceive the death-dying process from the perspective of nursing students. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research study. Data were collected between June and July 2013, from three focus groups with six nursing students at a University Center located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The meetings were organized with an approach to increase discussions about the death-dying process from the perspective of the complex thinking. Data were analyzed by means of the Strategic Focal Analysis, and three categories were created: Death: a process of rupture or continuity?; Recognizing weaknesses in the undergraduate educational process; and Outlining strategies to broaden academic discussions. It is possible to conclude that the death/dying process is minimally discussed in undergraduate courses, and when it is discussed, it happens in a fragmented and disjunctive manner, without integrating it into the human living process. Descriptors: Death. Education, nursing. Attitude to death.

Collective prenatal care facilitated by educational technology: perception of pregnant women. / Pré-natal coletivo mediado por tecnologia educativa: percepção de gestantes.

This article aims to explore the perception of pregnant women regarding collective prenatal care facilitated by educational technology, in the light of complexity thinking. Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study conducted between August and November 2022. The participants were 19 pregnant women from a Family Health Strategy in the central region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected through individual interviews following prenatal meetings and analyzed using thematic analysis. The analysis of the data revealed three thematic axes: Prenatal care: the necessary reconnection of knowledge; Collective prenatal care: collaborative (re)construction of experiences and practices; and Educational technology: tool to foster self-reflection and self-knowledge. Collective prenatal care, facilitated by educational technology, can promote better practices in the pregnancy-postpartum journey by creating collaborative and shared environments for knowledge construction and enabling autonomous and informed decision-making.

O objetivo deste artigo é conhecer a percepção de gestantes sobre o pré-natal coletivo mediado por tecnologia educativa, à luz do pensamento da complexidade. Pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva realizada entre os meses de agosto e novembro de 2022. Participaram da pesquisa 19 gestantes de uma Estratégia de Saúde da Família da região central do Rio Grande do Sul. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevista individual, após encontros de pré-natal e analisados pela técnica de análise temática. Dos dados analisados resultaram três eixos temáticos: Assistência pré-natal: a necessária religação de saberes; Pré-natal coletivo: (re)construção colaborativa de vivências e práticas; e Tecnologia educacional: ferramenta indutora de autorreflexão e autoconhecimento. O pré-natal coletivo, mediado por tecnologia educativa, é capaz de induzir melhores práticas no percurso gravídico-puerperal pelo fomento de espaços colaborativos e compartilhados de construção do conhecimento e pela tomada de decisões autônomas e responsáveis.

Inseparability between public health, planetary health and the nursing process: premise for sustainable development.

The aim is to conduct theoretical reflection on the inseparability among public health, planetary health and the nursing process in light of complexity thinking, with the aim of contributing to healthy and sustainable development. Study with a theoretical-reflexive approach that accessed bibliographical sources from contemporary authors who defend the inseparability between public health and planetary health and, at the same time, provide theoretical-systemic support to the nursing process, under an inductive critical bias. The nursing process is conceived as a complex phenomenon, which comprises interdependent dynamics, dialogical approaches, critical-reflective perception and prospective leadership. Theoretical reflection on the nursing process and sustainable development raises an expanded, contextualized and interdependent look at the role of nursing professionals in different health contexts, in order not to compromise well-being and environmental health.

Mothers' perception of the care of newborn in the home environment.

OBJECTIVES: to identify mothers' perceptions about caring for newborns in the home environment, from the perspective of complexity thinking. METHODS: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, carried out between November/2022 and February/2023. Data were collected through individual interviews with 21 mothers from southern Brazil who cared for newborns at home and analyzed using the thematic analysis technique. RESULTS: the four thematic axes resulting from the data analysis: Living amidst order and disorder; embracing singularities; dealing with the certain and the uncertain; support network in the (re)organizing process demonstrate that the mother caring for a newborn in their home environment experiences a distinct and plural adaptive process, which must be welcomed and understood by health professionals who work within the family environment. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the care of newborns in a home environment, in the perception of mothers, requires differentiated attention and a formal or informal support network that considers the unique specificities of each woman/mother in the personal, family and social spheres. Therefore, in addition to the social support network, it is important to rethink home intervention approaches.

[Nursing care in the perspective of complexity for nursing professors]. / Cuidado de enfermagem para enfermeiros docentes na perspectiva da complexidade.

The complex nursing care is essential for understanding the human being as unique and multidimensional. This study aimed at knowing what nursing care means to nurse-teachers in the perspective of complexity. It is a qualitative research, carried out with seven nurse-teachers of a nursing school from central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected in November 2011, through focus group,from three meetings, systematized with themes which considered the objective of this study. Discursive text analysis was used for data analysis. Results evinced nursing care as unique construction that goes beyond a technical-prescriptive, punctual and linear care. It is concluded that nursing care cannot be conceived as a reductionist action, but as a unique construction, which involves interactions, reflections and self-knowledge.

Social and health vulnerability of homeless people.

The objective is to conduct a theoretical reflection on the social and health vulnerability of homeless people, from the perspective of complexity thinking. Study with a theoretical and reflective approach that accessed bibliographical sources of contemporary authors who seek to understand the phenomenon of homeless populations and, at the same time, attribute theoretical support from the reference of complexity, under a critical and analytical bias. Health is conceived as a subsystem of the social system that transcends any linear and punctual diagnostic perspective. Theoretical reflection on the social and health vulnerability of homeless people sparks a unique and multidimensional apprehension of the human being - a complex unit par excellence, which demands equally complex interventions.

Interprofessional qualification of prenatal care in the context of primary health care. / Qualificação interprofissional da atenção pré-natal no contexto da atenção primária à saúde.

This study aims to describe and analyze an interprofessional educational intervention for the qualification of prenatal care in the context of primary health care. METHOD: action-research comprising a prenatal care qualification course with 65 primary health care professionals. Collaborative learning activities were conducted in synchronous and asynchronous meetings. RESULTS: the reflexive thematic analysis of participants' experiences, views and perceptions on the meanings of the intervention revealed three categories: quality of prenatal care: conceptions and meanings; collaborative learning: strategy to overcome linear and isolated care; the need to evolve from acting locally to thinking globally. CONCLUSION: the analysis of the interprofessional educational intervention for the qualification of prenatal care in the context of primary health care showed that constructivist, participatory and interprofessional approaches are relevant and pertinent to broaden theoretical perceptions and give new meanings to the work process at different settings of the health network.

O objetivo deste artigo é descrever e analisar intervenção educativa interprofissional para a qualificação da atenção pré-natal no contexto da atenção primária à saúde. Trata-se de uma pesquisa-ação cujo processo de intervenção teve como cenário a qualificação pré-natal, a partir de um curso sistematizado em atividades síncronas e assíncronas, com a participação de 65 profissionais que atuam em Unidades Básicas de Saúde. Da análise temática do tipo reflexive, que possibilitou o registro de ideias, insights e a significação da intervenção, resultaram três categorias: qualidade da atenção pré-natal - concepções e significados; aprendizagem colaborativa - estratégia para transcender a atenção linear e pontual; necessidade de evoluir do agir local ao pensar global. A análise da intervenção educativa interprofissional para a qualificação da atenção pré-natal no contexto da atenção primária à saúde demonstrou que percursos construtivistas, participativos e interprofissionais são relevantes e pertinentes para ampliar percepções teóricas e ressignificar o processo de trabalho nos diversos pontos da rede de saúde.

[Spirituality workshops: alternative care for the comprehensive treatment of drug addicts]. / Oficinas de espiritualidade: alternativa de cuidado para o tratamento integral de dependentes químicos.

This is an experience report regarding crack users following detoxification treatment, which aimed to achieve a comprehensive treatment of human beings through spirituality workshops. Cultivated and created from the inspirations of the subjects themselves, the workshops are strategies capable of encouraging a revision of attitudes and behaviors, as well as to resume life based on new values and ideals. In abstract, the workshops aim to contribute towards broadening discussions on the theme, thus supporting the revision of nursing practice in regards to detoxification treatment, in addition to highlighting the need to conduct further studies in this field.

How do nurses support chronically ill clients' participation and self-management in primary care? A cross-country qualitative study.

BACKGROUND: In the context of the advancement of person-centered care models, the promotion of the participation of patients with chronic illness and complex care needs in the management of their care (self-management) is increasingly seen as a responsibility of primary care nurses. It is emphasized that nurses should consider the psychosocial dimensions of chronic illness and the client's lifeworld. Little is known about how nurses shape this task in practice. METHODS: The aim of this analysis is to examine how primary care nurses understand and shape the participation of patients with chronic illness and complex care needs regarding the promotion of self-management. Guided interviews were conducted with nurses practicing in primary care and key informants in Germany, Spain, and Brazil with a subsequent cross-case evaluation. Interpretive and practice patterns were identified based on Grounded Theory. RESULTS: Two interpretive and practice patterns were identified: (1) Giving clients orientation in dealing with chronic diseases and (2) supporting the integration of illness in clients' everyday lives. Nurses in the first pattern consider it their most important task to provide guidance toward health-promoting behavior and disease-related decision-making by giving patients comprehensive information. Interview partners emphasize client autonomy, but rarely consider the limitations chronic disease imposes on patients' everyday lives. Alternatively, nurses in the second pattern regard clients as cooperation partners. They seek to familiarize themselves with their clients' social environments and habits to give recommendations for dealing with the disease that are as close to the client's lifeworld as possible. Nurses' recommendations seek to enable patients and their families to lead a largely 'normal life' despite chronic illness. While interview partners in Brazil or Spain point predominantly to clients' socio-economic disadvantages as a challenge to promoting client participation in primary health care, interview partners in Germany maintain that clients' high disease burden represents the chief barrier to self-management. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses in practice should be sensitive to client's lifeworlds, as well as to challenges that arise as they attempt to strengthen clients' participation in care and self-management. Regular communication between clients, nurses, and further professionals should constitute a fundamental feature of person-centered primary care models.

Entrepreneurial Nursing interventions for the social emancipation of women in recycling.

OBJECTIVE: To implement and signify entrepreneurial interventions in Nursing, with a view to the social emancipation of women working in an Association of Recyclable Materials. METHOD: Action-research with an intervention process based on an action alluding to Mother's Day, carried out in a pandemic period, with the participation of 28 women from a Recycling Association. RESULTS: The reflexive thematic analysis, which enabled the systematic recording of ideas, insights and the meanings of the intervention, gave rise to two categories: From apparent isolation to professional reinvention and from invisibility to dignity and the feeling of social equality. CONCLUSION: The interventions carried out in an Association of Recyclable Materials in a pandemic period provided, for its female workers, a sense of life, survival, dignity and empowerment, when they expected little or nothing. Enabling a social identity for the women of a Recycling Association implies, in short, overcoming linear interventions focused on assistance.

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education in the context of postgraduate nursing.

OBJECTIVE: To understand entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education in the context of postgraduate nursing. METHOD: Qualitative study based on Grounded Theory. The theoretical sample consisted of 15 master's and doctoral students and seven professors from a postgraduate nursing program at a university in southern Brazil. Individual interviews were conducted between August/2018 and February/2019 in a location defined by the participants, in general the University. The data were collected and analyzed simultaneously by initial and focused coding. RESULTS: Three categories and 11 subcategories emerged that, interrelated, represented the phenomenon "Glimpsing entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education in postgraduate nursing". CONCLUSION: Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education, in the context of postgraduate nursing, were understood as incipient and promising processes. In this sense, it is necessary to intensify studies to demonstrate the entrepreneurial possibilities of the area.

Nursing care as a systemic and entrepreneurial phenomenon.

The objective is to produce a critical-reflexivity analysis of nursing care, from the perspective of complexity thinking and social entrepreneurship. Theoretical-reflective study, supported by the framework of complexity thinking and social entrepreneurship. The main characteristics that lead and support nursing care are analyzed from a systemic-entrepreneurial perspective. A parallel is conceived between vertical care, design from a hierarchical structure and nursing care in the systemic-entrepreneurial perspective, which leads to singularity, originality, circularity, complementarity and interactivity. The centrality of nursing care is reaffirmed as a tangible social good or not. Theoretical reflection on nursing care as a systemic and entrepreneurial phenomenon raises a unique and multidimensional perception of the human being/user, health, the nursing work process, in order to achieve an increasingly agile, dynamic, circular, complementary and interdependent care.

Meaning of the spiritual aspects of health care in pregnancy and childbirth.

OBJECTIVE: to know the importance of the spiritual aspects of health care during pregnancy and childbirth, in the light of complexity thinking. METHOD: qualitative research, based on complexity thinking. Twenty-seven postpartum women with children between one month and six months old participated in the study. The data were collected between August and November 2021, based on individual interviews with guiding questions. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. RESULTS: three themes were obtained: The inseparability of spiritual care and emotional care; Connection between spirituality and the uterus - sacred temple; Alternative techniques for spiritual health care. CONCLUSION: the spiritual aspect of health care during pregnancy and childbirth can be considered an essential resource in the support of autonomy, security, and comfort. In addition, it can enable favorable outcomes in childbirth by strengthening the maternal-fetal attachment.

Social entrepreneurship in the professional training in Nursing.

OBJECTIVES: to assess the knowledge and practices that stimulate social entrepreneurship in the professional training of Nursing students. METHODS: qualitative exploratory-descriptive study carried out with 44 Nursing students from a University in the South Region of Brazil. Data were collected between May and August 2021, through individual online interviews. The participants were students of nursing course in the 6th semester or above, who had previously participated in teaching, research, or university outreach activities on entrepreneurship. RESULTS: the data was organized and analyzed according to the thematic analysis technique and resulted in three thematic categories: Meanings of social entrepreneurship, Factors that sparked social entrepreneurship, and Recognizing oneself as an entrepreneurial nurse. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the knowledge and practices that stimulate social entrepreneurship in the professional training of Nursing students are associated with teaching, research and university outreach activities that allow concrete experiences in the living and dynamic world of communities.

[Systemic social practice of nurses in luhmann's perspective]. / A prática social sistêmica do enfermeiro na perspectiva luhmanniana.

The objective was to understand the meaning of the social practice of nurses in Luhmann's perspective and allow for a discussion about the construction of a specific code for nursing; one that would go beyond the traditional health-disease code prevalent in the health system, whose relevant social communication is the disease. The Grounded Theory was the methodological framework. Data collection was performed by interviewing the 35 participants between May and December 2007. Data coding and analysis resulted revealed that assuming that nursing is as a functionally differentiated system implies on developing a binary code to enhance health as socially relevant communication and human beings as social beings who are part of a complex and multidimensional reality.

[From anthropocentrism to ecocentrism: educating for ecological care in health]. / Do antropocentrismo ao ecologicentrismo: formação para o cuidado ecológico na saúde.

The focus of the paper is the meaning of ecological care as understood by students and educators and how this issue is addressed in programs in the fields of health sciences and health care in a federal public institution in southern Brazil. Our goal is to discuss the central category. The methodology adopted was Grounded Theory. Ten interviews were carried out among two sample groups between September, 2008, and April, 2009. The results led to the design of the theory: considering ecological care as broad and complex phenomenon, and the core category: the ecological care that results from relations, interactions and associations within the global environment. We concluded that rejecting anthropocentrism is not enough for the survival of all forms of life in the planet. This survival demands educating for ecocentrism and for systemic-functional interactivity and adaptability. We must go beyond speeches and world conferences and redo the web of interdependence of all beings and elements of nature.

Nursing Now and Nursing in the future: the experience of the unexpected irruptions.

OBJECTIVE: to carry out a theoretical reflection on the Nursing Now Campaign and the experience of the unexpected irruptions facing the pandemic period. METHOD: a theoretical-reflective study, supported by the theoretical framework of complexity thinking. It aims at understanding the dialogic between the notions of order, disorder and organization, which translate the transition from simplification to complexity of the pandemic phenomenon and its relation to the theme of Nursing Now and Nursing in the future. RESULTS: the universe of phenomena is simultaneously composed of order, disorder and organization. Reasserting the central role of Nursing in the health team, facing the irruptions and uncertainties caused by the current pandemic, implies the ability to dialog with disorder and raise a new and more complex global (re)organization of the being and doing Nursing. CONCLUSION: in addition to answers, theoretical reflection raises new questions and irruptions. The inseparability between the notions of order and disorder in the evolutionary dynamics of the Nursing system is conceived and the promotion of even more complex levels of organization, management and Nursing assistance to achieve universal access to health is advocated.

The Learning Incubator: an innovative teaching and learning technology in nursing.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the meaning of the Learning Incubator as a teaching and learning technology in the nursing area. METHOD: Qualitative research, supported by grounded theory. Data was collected from March to November 2019, through interviews with guiding questions and hypotheses directed at two different groups. The analysis was done by comparative data analysis and included open, axial and integrated coding, as proposed by the method. The theoretical sample included 23 participants, which were nurses, technicians, and nursing students. RESULTS: The delimitation of the categories converged in the phenomenon (Re)signifying knowledge and practices in the Learning Incubator. Guided by the paradigmatic model, the categories were named according to the three following components: Condition: Recognizing that the being and the professional practice are inextricable; Action/interaction: Revisiting professional practices that are repetitive and mechanic; Consequence: Referring to the reflections and knowledge constructed in the Learning Incubator. CONCLUSION: The Learning Incubator, as seen by the study participants, is not limited to the Incubator meetings or the themes addressed in it. Beyond a welcoming physical space, the Incubator expands itself and becomes a tool that promotes self-reflection and self-assessment of professional behaviors and attitudes.