PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

D L Gomes

Publications and source records attributed to D L Gomes.

6 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2000

[Permanence of nurses in their profession].

The main cause for nursing shortage in the world is that nurses are withdrawing the profession. However few research has been carried out to prove this. This study investigates nurses' permanence in job and their motives for withdrawing it. Researchers tried to contact 1112 nurses who enrolled the profession after finishing the undergraduate nursing course at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil, in the period from 1957 to 1990. They were not able to contact 95 nurses (8.54%) from the total. Therefore, 1017 (91.46%) were contacted by mail, telephone or interview to answer a questionnaire, 808 (72.66%) answered, 194 (17.45%) did not reply, 4 (0.36%) refused to answer and 11 (0.99%) died, generating the following data: 19 (2.35%) never worked, 661 (81.81%) are working in the profession, 102 (12.62%) worked and withdrew nursing, 26 (3.22%) retired. Considering this group, the analysis showed that the percentage who left the profession is small, nevertheless other studies are suggested in order to enable the comparison of these results. The motives for their permanence are their attachment to the profession, even though they say that their work is not recognized and they are badly paid. The reasons for withdrawing the profession are family and personal problems as well as constant changes in the schedule and general frustration. In sum, nurses love their profession and would like to continue working. Some of them are returning and asking for better conditions.

Brazil↗
PubMed2000

[Average working life of nurses graduating form the University of Sao Paulo at Ribeirao Preto, USP - Brazil].

This study aimed at measuring the average working time in health care of nurses graduating from the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Brazil. This research includes 1,112 nurses who graduated from 1957 to 1990. It is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Data were obtained from March, 1992 to February, 1993. Statistical methods for survival data analysis were used. The average time was 18.12 years.

Brazil↗
PubMed1998

Post-discharge surveillance and infection rates in obstetric patients.

OBJECTIVE: To study the impact of post-discharge surveillance on the detection of nosocomial surgical site infection (SSI) after cesarean section and vaginal delivery. METHODS: During a 21-month period, all patients attending the obstetrics service in labor were recruited for a observational study on the incidence of SSI. Examinations to detect SSI were performed daily during the hospitalization period and up to 30 days after hospital discharge in an outpatient clinic supervised by the Infection Control Committee. The stratification of risk-factors and the criteria for the diagnosis of SSI were done in accordance with the methods described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rates of surgical site infection detected during the hospitalization period were compared with those reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National (United States) Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System (CDCNNIS) 'benchmarks'. The incidence of SSI detected by post-discharge outpatient surveillance was compared with that from in-hospital surveillance, for both cesarean section and vaginal delivery. RESULTS: A total of 4463 deliveries were performed during the study period, 2431 (54.5%) by the vaginal route and 2032 (45.5%) by cesarean section. In-hospital surveillance was done on all patients. Post-discharge examinations were done on 951 (46.8%) of the 2032 cesarean section patients. The incidence of SSI in cesarean section detected by in-hospital surveillance was 1.6% (32 cases) and lower than the 3.6% mean rate reported by the CDCNNIS. When SSIs detected by post-discharge surveillance were included, the total number of SSI was 196 cases (9.6%), a value much higher than that for the SSI detected by in-hospital surveillance alone. Only 5 cases (0.21%) of SSI were detected among the 2431 vaginal deliveries. CONCLUSIONS: The results of our study demonstrate that most of SSI following cesarean section were detected only after patient's discharge from the hospital and seems to indicate that failing to do follow-up evaluation of these patients could result in a substantial mis-calculation of the authentic SSIs rates. Therefore data on post-discharge surveillance should be included to realistically estimate the true rates of SSI in obstetric patients and to allow the implementation of measures to reduce post-partum infection.

Brazil↗
PubMed1995

[Investigation of the school life of students entering an undergraduate nursing course at a Brazilian school from 1984-1988].

An investigation of professional nursing training was carried out by examining the time spent in nursing school of the 336 students registered at the Nursing College of Ribeirão Preto at University of São Paulo from 1984 to 1988. The data showed that during this time 197 (58.6%) students graduated, two students were still enrolled, 26 (7.7%) transferred to other schools, 15 (4.4%) officially interrupted their course of study, and 96 (28.5%) abandoned the school.

Brazil↗
PubMed1994

[Epidemiology for nurses].

The subject of this paper emphasizes the uses of Epidemiology to nurses like an essential tool to afford health service assistance and his application in practice. Equally it evidences that the epidemiology offers important support to the planning, administration, execution and evaluation of the health service and in addition an extremely useful and essential investigation instrument to his professional formation.

Education, Nursing↗