Uncovering care for patients in the death/dying process and their families. / Desvelando os cuidados aos pacientes em processo de morte/morrer e às suas famílias.

OBJECTIVE: To understand, in terms of complexity, the conditions that influence the interactions of health professionals in the face of death and dying of hospitalized adult patients and their families. METHOD: Theoretical and methodological references have been adopted, respectively, were the Complex Thought and Grounded Theory. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews between May 2015 and January 2016, with three sample groups: nurses, nursing technicians and members of the multidisciplinary team. The data analysis followed the steps of open, axial and selective coding. RESULTS: The category "Uncovering the care of patients in the process of death/dying and their families" and their respective subcategories present the complex interrelation of health professionals in the face of death and dying of patients. CONCLUSION: Causal conditions highlight the multiple connections established for care in the dialogic process of death/dying and reveal the complexity of lifeless care.

Data analysis: comparison between the different methodological perspectives of the Grounded Theory. / Análise de dados: comparação entre as diferentes perspectivas metodológicas da Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados.

Grounded Theory (GT) has undergone many transformations since its proposition as a research method in the 1960s. As a result of these changes, three different GT approaches have been outlined: classic, straussian and constructivist ground theory, each with its peculiarities, but mainly concerning data analysis. Thus, this study aimed to describe and compare the data analysis process adopted by the different methodological perspectives of GT. The text is organized into two topics. Firstly, we present the common and differentiating characteristics of the three methodological perspectives of GT. In sequence, the data analysis system adopted in each of the GT methodological perspectives is described and exemplified, varying between two and three stages, and may or may not include the use of the paradigmatic model. Thus, this study provides support for understanding the different data analysis systems adopted in GT, which may contribute to the rigor and scientific quality of nursing research adopting this method.

[Nurses' perceptions of the vulnerabilities to STD/AIDS in light of the process of adolescence]. / Percepções de enfermeiros acerca das vulnerabilidades para DST/Aids diante das conexões do processo de adolescer.

OBJECTIVE: to understand the perception of nurses on the vulnerabilities to STD/AIDS in light of the process of adolescence. METHOD: qualitative research conducted with 15 nurses in a centre for the studies of adolescent healthcare of a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. The adopted theoretical and methodological frameworks were the Complexity Theory and the Grounded Theory, respectively. The semi-structured interview was used to collect data from January to August 2012. RESULTS: this research presents the category: Nurses' perceptions of the vulnerabilities to STD/AIDS in light of the process of adolescence, and the subcategories: Risks and uncertainties of the process of adolescence: paths to STD/AIDS; Age-adolescence complex: expanding knowledge from the perception of nurses. CONCLUSION: once the nurses understand the complexity of adolescence, they create strategies to reduce the vulnerability of adolescents to STD/AIDS. This signals the need to invest in education, assistance and the management of nursing care for adolescents.

[Thoughts regarding researchers utilizing Grounded Theory]. / Reflexões sobre o pesquisador nas trilhas da Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados.

This descriptive-reflexive study was performed with the objective to present the characteristics of researchers who use the Grounded Theory method, and outline the development of aptitudes for the researcher to become a Grounded Theoretician. The theoretical discussion was based on the frameworks of this methodology and supported by the literature. The article presents the main demands of qualitative studies using Grounded Theory, and important behaviors, attitudes and characteristics developed by the researchers. It is concluded that learning about Grounded Theory involves more than operationalizing a group of procedures and techniques. It also involves facing challenges to change one's attitude as a researcher and develop new ways of thinking and researching, gathering knowledge based on data to form a theory.

[Communication conceptions in hospital nursing management between head nurses in a university hospital]. / Concepções de comunicação na gerência de Enfermagem Hospitalar entre enfermeiros gerentes de um hospital universitário.

The objective of the following study was to analyze the conceptions that head nurses of a university hospital have about nursing communication management. It is a descriptive-exploratory study with an interpretative qualitative approach. The set of data was produced between September and October 2007 through interviews with 19 head nurses in a university hospital in Southern Brazil and submitted to thematic analysis. The nurses recognize the relevance of communication in nursing management, but have different perceptions: part of the research group understands communication from its interactive and dialogical perspective; others understand formal communication, based on the transmission and maintenance of standards and hospital routines, with emphasis on written communication. Further discussion about the triad communication, management and dialogue is required in order to build more interactive forms of hospital nursing care management.

[Driving and hindering forces for team work in a Material and Sterilization Center of a teaching hospital]. / Forças impulsoras e restritivas para trabalho em equipe em um Centro de Material e Esterilização de hospital escola.

The objective of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to analyze the driving and hindering forces for team work at a Material and Sterilization Center (MSC) of a teaching hospital, through an approximation of Kurt Lewin's Field Theory,in Goiânia, Goiás. Participants were 35 professionals, who answered a self-administered questionnaire based on the referred theory, which establishes that group situations are permeated by forces that have a positive or negative influence on the individuals' movements, and concern the subjects' involvement (I), the groups interaction (Other) and the working environment (Evnironment). The data were submitted to content analysis, and distributed in the predefined dimensions. Results consolidated 1990 registers, with most (59.3%) being categorized as driving forces, mostly in the I dimension. It was observed there was balance between forces in the Other and Environment dimensions. Outlining the force field permitted an objective, concrete view of the strengths and weaknesses of the studied team, and the possibilities to promote changes.

[Investigation in central of material and sterilization using grounded theory]. / Investigação em Central de Material e Esterelização utilizando a Teoria Fundamentada em Dados.

Research developed in three Central of Material and Sterilization for investigation of the nurse's managerial practice, in view of the human resources. It is part of the master dissertation which objectives were identify the meaning of the managerial practice in CME, describe its process, and construct a theoretical model about human resources management. Study of qualitative nature, whose participants were nurses of three public hospitals of the Rio de Janeiro. We utilized as referential the Symbolic Interaction and the Grounded Theory. Based on the collected data and realities of each CME are found five categories, beyond the central phenomenon. Process of nurses basic actuation is attached to the experience in the personal knowledge, work process knowledge and science of its realities.

[Legal issues of Brazilian hyperbaric nursing: why regulate?]. / Aspectos legais da enfermagem hiperbárica brasileira: por que regulamentar?

This study aimed to show the needs to standardize nursing care related to hyperbaric oxygenation and regulate working conditions for nursing staff that works on this area. They approach the legislation at the Brazilian Society of Hyperbaric Medicine, on Brazilian Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, on Regulating Rules of the Ministry of Labor and on the Code of Ethics of Nursing Professionals, as instruments still insufficient to legalize the Hyperbaric Nurse, its procedures in hyperbaric conditions and pressurized environments. It allowed pondering on the disclosure of the state of art of hyperbaric nursing, as well as the incorporation of this activity in relation to the specialties on the COFEN Resolution 290/2004 and postgraduate courses in Nursing.

Grounded theory--conceptual and operational aspects: a method possible to be applied in nursing research.

This is a descriptive-reflective study based on literature and qualitative design. It aimed to discuss conceptual aspects of Grounded Theory (GT) and to present the applicability of this methodology within the nursing field. GT consists of an interpretative and systematic framework that extracts significant aspects from experiences of social actors and which enables researchers to construct theoretical frameworks and intensify expansion of knowledge. It has been shown to be an important and consistent framework for objects of study that involve human interactions and which include phenomena concerning professional practice and which have not yet been properly examined and understood according to the rigor required for the construction of knowledge in qualitative designs.

Nurse researchers and nursing assistants: construction and projection of polymorphous identities.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the meanings that nurse researchers and nursing assistants attribute to one another, and to the development of research produced by Nursing. METHOD: Qualitative research. The Grounded Theory and the Complexity Theory were used as theoretical and methodological frameworks, respectively. Ten nursing assistants and six research nurses participated in the research. The semi-structured interview was used as a data collection technique. The results were categorized by comparative analysis and validated by ten judges. RESULTS: The valuation of nursing care research as well as interactions between research development and nursing care may be related to the way nursing assistants and nurse researchers perceive themselves. These perceptions are multifaceted. CONCLUSION: The meanings nurse researchers and nursing assistants attribute to each other reveal mechanisms of closeness and distance between these actors, as well as between research and nursing care.

Care management for the hospitalized child with chronic cancer pain: intervening conditions.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the intervening conditions of care management for the hospitalized child with chronic cancer pain. METHOD: Qualitative research, anchored in the methodological and theoretical frameworks, respectively, Grounded Theory and Complex Thinking. The semi-structured interview and non-participant observation were used to collect the data. Twenty-one health professionals, organized in three sample groups: nurses; nursing technicians; and professionals of the multiprofessional health staff. RESULTS: They emerged as intervening conditions of care management: human resources and materials, teamwork, absenteeism, professional relocation, professional qualification, family, playful, dialogue, empathy and caring relationship. CONCLUSION: It was understood as limiting conditions for care management: deficits of human resources and materials, absenteeism, ineffective teamwork, professional relocation, and insufficient professional qualification. On the other hand, they were presented as facilitating conditions: adequate professional knowledge, effective teamwork, dialogue, empathy, playful and affective relationship with the child.

The aesthetics of smells: the sense of smell and nursing.

This study aims to present reflections on the meaning of olfactory sensations and perceptions, as well as their relevance as a phenomenon present in Nursing practice. It stresses the importance of the smells' chemical language in the hospital environment, emphasizing some deductions about the aesthetics of smells from the Nursing perspective. The authors conclude that a deeper aesthetic/philosophical and technical/scientific comprehension of smell emanations will contribute to human care, especially in Nursing diagnoses and prescriptions, environmental quality regulation and therapeutics.

[Concepts associated to systematization of nursing care in Brazilian journals]. / Correntes de pensamento nacionais sobre sistematização da assistência de enfermagem.

This study is a research that has as objective analyze the bibliographical production about the Systematization of Nursing Care in order to discuss concepts associated to the subject. Were analyzed books and national articles published in the database of the Virtual Library in Health, Medline, Lilacs and Scielo, in the period of January of 2000 to January of 2008. Were analyzed 11 articles, having been identified three distinct kind of thought to define concepts associated to Systematization of Nursing Care. Such fact aims for the difficulty of theoretical and pratical articulation, evidenced by the conflicts existing in the literature.

[Nursing as social practice: an exercise of reflection]. / Enfermagem como prática social: um exercício de reflexão.

In this work we aimed at reflecting about the nursing as a social practice. To build these ideas, we reconsidered this concept in its philosophical and social roots. With the purpose to contribute for this reflection, we looked for the characteristics that define the nursing as an historical and socially build practice, through the nursing development, since its beginning. At last we also propose a concept of social practice and, into this perspective, we built,along the text, an other concept for the nursing.

[Quality of pre-natal care in Family Health Strategy in Sobral, CE, Brazil]. / Qualidade da atenção ao pré-natal na Estratégia Saúde da Família em Sobral, Ceará

Face to public policies involving the quality of care for prenatal, the study aims to: assess the quality of prenatal care to the territories in the Family Health Strategy of the city of Sobral in the light of theoretical reference of Avedis Donabedian. This is a descriptive- exploratory study, developed by Family Health Units of Sobral, CE, Brazil. Of the fourteen Centers Health investigated, four were with appropriate indicators for prenatal care. But that although there are inadequacies in the physical structure, there are no impediments in order to provide a quality of care there is a view that the process and results also interfere with the quality of care.

The process of dying/death: intervening conditions to the nursing care management.

OBJECTIVE: To exhibit the factors that influence the Nursing care management in the face of death and the process of dying/death of hospitalized adults in the medical-surgical units for hospitalization. METHOD: The Grounded Theory was applied with the theorical support of the Complex Thinking Theory. Data have been collected through semi-structured interviews from May, 2015 to January, 2016 with three sample groups totaling 41 participants: nurses, assistant nurses and members of multidisciplinary group. Data analysis followed the steps of open coding, axial coding and selective coding. RESULTS: The category "Pointing out the interfaces of care management to patients in process of death/dying and their families" and its respective subcategories show the complex interactions established by the nurse due to the Nursing care management. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Subjective, educational, sociocultural and institutional conditions influence the nurse interactions, causing order/disorder on care management.

Management challenges for best practices of the Kangaroo Method in the Neonatal ICU.

OBJECTIVE: To understand the conditions that influence the adherence and application of best practices by nurses in the context of the Nursing care management in the Kangaroo Mother Care in the Neonatal ICU. METHOD: Study of qualitative approach, whose theoretical and methodological frameworks were Symbolic Interactionism and Grounded Theory, respectively. We used the in-depth interview with 8 nurses from the Neonatal ICU of a public maternity hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro. RESULTS: The conditions involved in adhering to the best practices of humanization in the Neonatal ICU are related mainly to human resources, interaction among professionals, work processes and leadership strategies; and care management. CONCLUSION: Professional and institutional challenges have been identified that need to be addressed to improve adherence and implementation of the Kangaroo Mother Care best practices.

[Conflict as a reality and a cultural challenge in the practice of nurses' management]. / O conflito como realidade e desafio cultural no exercício da gerência do enfermeiro.

The practice of nurses' management is permeated by conflicts that can be interpreted through culture references. The objective of this study is to denote cultural specificities, analyzed according to Geertz's Cultural Interpretative Theory, that are expressed as conflicts in the scope of nurses' management at a University Hospital. The results denoted the incorporation of ideological elements and mechanisms of control and power, whose origin can be seen in the way in which the work is organized. The application of policies based on the profession's very values was observed. Practices highlight a cultural construction that elucidates some understandings regarding cognitive, social and behavioral processes, because they organize the interpretations and the answers to the events of nurses' practices in management. The results of this study point out the importance of organizational culture in the practice of Nursing management in the face of labor uncertainties in the complexity of a hospital environment.

[Center of Studies and Research in Nursing (CEPEn): a trajectory of 36 years]. / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa em Enfermagem (CEPEn): uma trajetória de 36 anos.

The study presents some trajectory highlights of the Center of Studies and Research in Nursing of the Brazilian Nursing Association, considering the period from 1971 to 2007. This is a historical study based on the Information Catalog of Research and Researchers in Nursing and the reports of the National Seminars of Nursing Research. The objectives were to rescue the contribution of CEPEn and to present one of the most important events for Brazilian Nursing. The concern with the future and the need for empowerment and enrichment, of professors as well as for assistance professionals, is one of the marks in nowadays and it is a challenge to be faced in present time.

Cultural adaptation of The End-Stage Renal Disease Adherence Questionnaire for hemodialysis patients.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the stages in the cultural adaptation of "The End-Stage Renal Disease Adherence Questionnaire" for use in Brazil. METHOD: A descriptive, transversal study with a quantitative approach. The cultural adaptation followed the steps of translation, professional committee, back translation, panel of patients and pretest. RESULTS: the translation stage created a version in Portuguese that was analyzed by specialists, who suggested alterations in the title, seven sentences in the questions and three sets of answers. In the panel of patients phase, two questions were altered. The back translation considered the original characteristics of the instrument were maintained, likewise there were no modifications in the pretest phase. The third version written in Portuguese was considered to be the final version of the questionnaire. CONCLUSION: this instrument should facilitate nursing care management in hemodialysis, enabling the monitoring of adherence among these patients and also contribute to improving the indicators of morbidity and mortality.