[Facilitators of the transition process for the self-care of the person with stoma: subsidies for Nursing]. / Facilitadores do processo de transição para o autocuidado da pessoa com estoma: subsídios para Enfermagem.

OBJECTIVE: To know the facilitating factors of the transition process from dependency to the self-care of people with a stoma. METHOD: This is a descriptive study of qualitative approach, including 27 people with permanent stomas due to cancer. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and submitted to content analysis based on the Transition Theory as theoretical reference. RESULTS: The self-care facilitators related to the person were the positive significance of ostomy; the preparation for this experience already in the preoperative period; emotional stability; faith; religiousness; and a sense of normalcy acquired from a next image similar to the previous one. The facilitators related to the community were the following: receiving equipment for free from the government; support from family and the multidisciplinary team, especially the nurses; and having contact with other people with stomata. CONCLUSION: The results allow that nurses develop strategies to help people with stomata to resume their self-care.

[Meanings attributed by family members in pediatrics regarding their interactions with nursing professionals]. / Significados atribuídos por familiares na pediatria acerca de suas interações com os profissionais da enfermagem .

OBJECTIVE: Understanding the meanings attributed by family caregivers of children in hospital environments about their interactions with nursing professionals. METHODS: This qualitative study used Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical reference and Grounded Theory as the methodological framework. It was carried out in a Pediatrics Center in southern Brazil, in the first half of 2013. Participants were 15 family caregivers of hospitalized children. Data were collected through interviews and submitted to open and axial analysis. RESULTS: Interactions with the nursing team enable family to trust or distrust in the provided child care and to positively evaluate the care received. CONCLUSION: Interactions between family members and the nursing team contribute to the significance attributed by the family to the nursing care received by the child. Nurses should be aware of the attitudes of the nursing team regarding the child and their family, prioritizing humanized care.

[Health facility environment as humanization strategy care in the pediatric unit: systematic review]. / Ambiência como estratégia de humanização da assistência na unidade de pediatria: revisão sistemática.

OBJECTIVE: To identify and analyze the production of knowledge about the strategies that health care institutions have implemented to humanize care of hospitalized children. METHOD: This is a systematic review conducted in the Virtual Health Library - Nursing and SciELO, using the seven steps proposed by the Cochrane Handbook. RESULTS: 15 studies were selected, and strategies that involved relationship exchanges were used between the health professional, the hospitalized child and their families, which may be mediated by leisure activities, music and by reading fairy tales. We also include the use of the architecture itself as a way of providing welfare to the child and his/her family, as well as facilitating the development of the work process of health professionals. CONCLUSION: Investments in research and publications about the topic are necessary, so that, the National Humanization Policy does not disappear and that the identified strategies in this study do not configure as isolated and disjointed actions of health policy.

Strategies used by nurses regarding underreporting of rural work accidents due to pesticide use.

OBJECTIVE: To learn the strategies used regarding underreporting of pesticide use in rural areas. METHODS: A qualitative study was carried out in eight primary healthcare units in rural areas and two emergency care units in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data collection took place in 2023 through interviews. Twenty professional nurses participated. The data was submitted to content analysis. RESULTS: The strategies identified were lifelong and continuing education for the professionals who carry out the notification, active search and training of workers who deal directly with this type of substance, computerizing the notification by filling in the forms online, and carrying out research on the subject. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Nurses play an important role in reporting occupational accidents caused by the use of pesticides, improving occupational safety in rural areas.

[Mothers of visually impaired children: difficult and easy aspects faced in care]. / Mães de crianças com deficiência visual: dificuldades e facilidades enfrentadas no cuidado.

This study aimed to identify the difficult and easy aspects faced by mothers of visually impaired (VI) children in their care. It is a descriptive qualitative study, developed in the second semester of 2011, with ten mothers of children with visual impairment from an Educational Center for the Visually Impaired located in southern Brazil. Data were collected by means of semistructured interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis. The identified difficulties were the lack of knowledge regarding the disease and how to take care of the child, the lack of access to health services, overload generated by the dependence of the child and lack of support and prejudice within their own family. The easy aspects involved the desire for the child's healthy development the chance of being in touch with qualified professionals for their education, and the contact with other VI children. Therefore, it is important to qualify the family for the care of VI children so as to ensure the development of skills and competencies enabling them to live with quality.

[Family experience in the hospital during child hospitalization]. / Vivências da familia no hospital durante a internação da criança.

This study aimed to reveal how family experiences the hospitalization of the child in hospital. The study was performed at the pediatrics ward at a university hospital, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The methodological approach was based on Grounded Theory. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, during the first semester of 2010 with 12 companion mothers. They were divided into two sample groups. Comparative analysis of the data generated two categories: negative family experiences during child hospitalization and positive family experiences during child hospitalization. It is known that the experiences of families in the hospital lead us to reflect on our actions when facing them, indicating strategies that professionals can adopt in order to provide a more effective care, they help to experience a healthier hospitalization of the child reflecting on this process.

[Educational geronto-technology for ostomized seniors from a complexity perspective]. / Gerontotecnologia educativa voltada ao idoso estomizado à luz da complexidade.

We aimed to present the educational booklet as a geronto-technological product for caring for ostomized seniors from a complexity perspective. This was accomplished in the second semester of 2007 in a hospital in the south of Brazil. The data were collected through interviews and presented in the form of an educational booklet. The booklet was validated by ostomized seniors and by a nurse who had been working with these elderly patients. The booklet was presented as a geronto-technology able to help ostomized seniors and their families understand the rights of ostomized people; concepts and types of stomas; care of ostomy; and the importance of the family and the support group for care. In conclusion, the educational booklet is presented as a health promotion tool which makes the health educative process easier.

[Support group as a strategy of care: the importance for relatives of drug users]. / Grupo de apoio/suporte como estratégia de cuidado: importância para familiares de usuários de drogas.

The objective was to investigate the perception by relatives of drug users about the importance of the support group as a strategy of care. We conducted a descriptive study with qualitative approach, in the second half of 2010, in a psychosocial care center for users of alcohol and other drugs (CAPS AD), in a city in the extreme south of Brazil with ten relatives. Data were collected by semistructured interviews and analyzed by thematic analysis. It was found that the group is an alternative to hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital, can provide access and regular monitoring by health professionals, helps understand what addiction is, provides tools for care and allows for the social rehabilitation of the addict. The support group was concluded to be an important strategy for caring for relatives of drug users, presenting itself as a technology to be incorporated by nurses in their daily practice.

[The child at the neonatal intensive care unit: the impact of the mother's first visit]. / A criança na unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal: impacto da primeira visita da mãe.

This study aimed to establish the impact the first visit to a child hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit have on the moher. This is a qualitative research conducted in a University Hospital from August to November, 2009. Semistructured interviews were conducted with ten mothers. Through thematic analysis we found that: the first visit is striking because the unit is known as a place for the care of critically ill patients; the existing technology causes stress; and that entering at the unit unattended and receiving little information about the child may hinder the mother's presence in the unit and make the visit frightening, leading to mixed feelings. They suggest the need to prepare the mothers to enter the sector through the provision of simple informations that can reduce their anxiety and fear. It is necessary that mothers be supported by the healthcare staff during the visit, strengthening their emotional link with their children.

[Reactions and feelings of nursing professionals facing their patients' death]. / Reações e sentimentos de profissionais da enfermagem frente à morte dos pacientes sob seus cuidados.

This study aims to know the reactions and feelings of nursing professionals facing their patients' death. This qualitative research was developed at the Medical Clinic Unit of a university hospital in Southern Brazil. The population of the study was composed of four nurses and five nursing technicians that work at this unit. Data were collected in the second semester of 2006 through semi-structured interviews and analyzed with the use of thematic analysis. The analysisproduced three categories reactions of nursing professionals facing death in daily work, feelings towards facing death in daily work; and nursing team members facing the care of the body after death. Results indicate that there is a need for discussing this issue in the workplace in order to prepare these healthcare workers to deal with their patients' death.

Family culture versus institutional hospital culture: a relation between two worlds.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the relation between family culture and hospital institutional culture. METHOD: Qualitative study, carried out in 2017, with relatives of children admitted to a Hospital in southern Brazil. The study included non-participant observation, to gain familiarity with the investigated cultural context; participant observation, to know the respondents' experiences; and interviews. The data were coded and theoretical formulations and recommendations were made. RESULTS: Fifteen family members participated. Hospitalization is a time of encounter and interaction between family culture and institutional culture. CONCLUSION: Hospital culture is presented as an instrument of family care and adaptation and flexibility of norms and routines to humanize cultural care.

Meanings assigned by families about children's chronic disease diagnosis.

OBJECTIVES: to understand the meanings assigned by family caregivers about children's chronic disease diagnosis. METHODS: qualitative study, which used as theoretical framework the Symbolic Interactionism, and methodological, the Grounded Theory. It was held in a pediatric unit in Southern Brazil, in 2016, through interviews submitted to open and axial analysis, with the participation of 20 family caregivers of hospitalized children. RESULTS: relatives, interacting with the nursing/health staff, perceive children's disease at birth. They are diagnosed with chronic disease by the physician and deny it. Subsequently, they accept and seek information on care. CONCLUSIONS: the results pointed out the stages that relatives experience by assigning meanings to about children's chronic disease diagnosis. These meanings provide subsidies for nurses' actions, which need to be aware of children's and family's needs in order to offer comprehensive and humanized care.

Obstetric violence in the perception of multiparous women.

OBJECTIVE: To know the perception of multiparous women about their experiences with obstetric violence. METHODS: Qualitative descriptive study carried out from January to May 2019 in basic health units in the city of Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul. Twenty multiparous women from the community participated in the study. Data were collected through interviews and submitted to content analysis. RESULTS: Two subcategories were constructed: Obstetric Violence in primiparous women, where women suffered verbal violence to collaborate during fetal expulsion in labor; Obstetric violence in multiparous women, where there was verbal and physical violence related to the fact that the women had many children. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Obstetric violence in health institutions is experienced by many women. The trauma suffered will follow them through their lives. The naturalization of violent practices during labor and birth should be avoided, in order to ensure respectful and non-discriminatory care.

Exercise of rights of tuberculosis patients undergoing pharmacological treatment.

OBJECTIVES: to know how people with tuberculosis undergoing treatment exercise their rights throughout daily life while experiencing illness. METHODS: this qualitative study was developed from April to May 2015, with people with tuberculosis undergoing treatment in an outpatient clinic of the Municipal Tuberculosis Control Program in the city of Pelotas. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and verified by content analysis, under the thematic modality. RESULTS: people announced aspects that involved human rights pertaining to their experiences, and they had difficulties to achieve full rights to dignity, health, social security, and social services. Such rights were neither guaranteed by the State nor by their families. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: it is necessary for health professionals and services to inform and equip people with tuberculosis, directly or indirectly, for the full exercise of their rights.

Beliefs, values and practices of families in the care of hospitalized children: subsidies for nursing.

OBJECTIVE: To know the beliefs, values and practices of families in the care of hospitalized children. METHOD: Qualitative study developed at the Pediatrics Unit of a University Hospital in southern Brazil through non-participant observation, participant observation and interview with children's family members. The methodological framework of Ethnonursing was adopted. Data were coded, classified and scrutinized to identify saturation of similar or different ideas and patterns, and recoded by making theoretical formulations and recommendations. RESULTS: Beliefs, values and practices of families depend on cultural references and are manifested in the care with feeding, clothing and hygiene, maintenance of sleep and rest, presence, care with medication and exercise of religious belief. CONCLUSION: Family members care for the hospitalized child based on their cultural reference and it is important that nurses take this aspect into consideration during care practice. Cultural care aggregates knowledge and can be considered a new paradigm for nursing care that allows an affective, reflective, human, empathic relationship between nurse/child/family.

Internet influence on the biopsychosocial health of adolescents: an integratitive review.

OBJECTIVES: To identify scientific evidence on the influence of internet use on adolescents' biopsychosocial health. METHODS: Integrative review, with database search, using the descriptors "internet", "adolescent health" and "adolescent behavior". After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 16 articles were selected. RESULTS: Knowledge convergence produced for three main themes was demonstrated: "Internet exposure time and possible damages to adolescent health"; "Internet, adolescent and cyberbullying"; and "Internet as a source of information for adolescent health". FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The network involves an intricate network of interactions, providing varied behaviors and attitudes that reflect on adolescent health. Therefore, it is important to articulate nursing actions with the school community and the family, in order to carry out health education.

Productivity of subjectivity and autonomy of nursing professionals in Pediatrics.

OBJECTIVE: To know the aspects involved in the production of subjectivity and autonomy of nursing professionals working in Pediatric Units. METHOD: An exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, performed with users, professionals and nursing managers, totaling 44 participants. Data collection took place in the pediatric hospitalization units of two University Hospitals through semi-structured interviews, organized and treated by Nvivo 10 software and then submitted to content analysis. RESULTS: The production of subjectivity and autonomy in nursing workers involves both the conditions of the work environment as the relation of the nursing team, the relation of hierarchy and the profile of the professional that works in the Pediatric Unit. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The valorization path of the nursing profession emerges, whose knowledge and competence in the area of work contribute to the construction of autonomous subjectivities.

Strategies used by nurses regarding underreporting of rural work accidents due to pesticide use / Estrategias utilizadas por los enfermeros en relación con el subregistro de accidentes laborales rurales causados por el uso de plaguicidas / Estratégias utilizadas por enfermeiros sobre subnotificações de acidentes de trabalho rural por uso de agrotóxicos

ABSTRACT Objective: To learn the strategies used regarding underreporting of pesticide use in rural areas. Methods: A qualitative study was carried out in eight primary healthcare units in rural areas and two emergency care units in a municipality in southern Brazil. Data collection took place in 2023 through interviews. Twenty professional nurses participated. The data was submitted to content analysis. Results: The strategies identified were lifelong and continuing education for the professionals who carry out the notification, active search and training of workers who deal directly with this type of substance, computerizing the notification by filling in the forms online, and carrying out research on the subject. Final considerations: Nurses play an important role in reporting occupational accidents caused by the use of pesticides, improving occupational safety in rural areas.

RESUMEN Objetivo: Conocer las estrategias utilizadas para el subregistro del uso de plaguicidas en áreas rurales. Métodos: Estudio cualitativo realizado en ocho unidades de atención primaria en áreas rurales y dos unidades de atención de emergencia en un municipio del sur de Brasil. La recopilación de datos se realizó en 2023 mediante entrevistas. Participaron 20 profesionales de enfermería. Los datos fueron sometidos a análisis de contenido. Resultados: Las estrategias identificadas fueron la educación continua y permanente de los profesionales que realizan la notificación, la búsqueda activa y la capacitación de los trabajadores que tratan directamente con este tipo de sustancia, la informatización de la notificación mediante el llenado de los formularios en línea y la realización de investigaciones sobre el tema. Consideraciones finales: Los enfermeros desempeñan un papel importante en la notificación de accidentes laborales causados por el uso de plaguicidas, mejorando la seguridad laboral en las zonas rurales.

RESUMO Objetivo: Conhecer as estratégias utilizadas acerca das subnotificações por uso de agrotóxicos no meio rural. Método: Estudo qualitativo realizado em oito unidades básicas de regiões rurais e duas unidades de pronto atendimento de um município do sul do Brasil. A coleta de dados deu-se em 2023, por entrevistas. Participaram 20 profissionais enfermeiros. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo. Resultados: Apontaram como estratégias a realização da educação permanente e continuada dos profissionais que realizam a notificação, a busca ativa e a capacitação dos trabalhadores que lidam diretamente com esse tipo de substância, a informatização da notificação por meio do preenchimento das fichas online e a realização de pesquisas acerca da temática. Considerações Finais: Os enfermeiros desempenham um papel importante na notificação de acidentes de trabalho pelo uso de agrotóxicos, melhorando a segurança ocupacional no meio rural.

[Perceptions of nursing team as to the father as a caretaker in pediatric wards]. / Percepções da equipe de enfermagem em relação ao pai como cuidador na unidade de pediatria.

Fathers have increasingly participated in child care. The objective of this study was to identify the perceptions of the nursing staff as the presence of the father as a caregiver in pediatric units. A qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study was conducted during the first semester of 2005 in a pediatric unit of a university hospital in Brazil. Four nurses and fifteen orderlies were interviewed using semi-structured interviews, and data were submitted to thematic analysis. The results showed that the team believed that children need both the mother and the father, but the lack of space does not allow the presence of both. The nursing team also believes that mothers take better care of the children than fathers. Fathers are only accepted as caregivers in the hospital under special situations. It was concluded that the nursing team needs to think in how to help fathers to experience and to practice participatory fatherhood in pediatric wards.

Lifeworld: socio-environmental influence on crack cocaine use by teenagers.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the influence of the lifeworld on crack cocaine use by teenagers undergoing treatment at the Psychosocial Care Center for users of alcohol and other drugs. METHOD: Qualitative research carried out with thirteen teenagers attended at the Psychosocial Care Center for users of alcohol and other drugs, from a municipality in the South of Brazil. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and the Comprehensive Analysis was carried out from the Phenomenology of the Social World of Alfred Schütz. RESULTS: In the lifeworld, there is influence of the community to which the teenager belongs; of the family, by the excess of permissibility and being in an environment of drug use and violence; and the school, where it is influenced by individuals to consume them. CONCLUSION: Elements from the lifeworld influence the teenager for the consumption of crack cocaine, being necessary actions contextualized with their world of life.