Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to D M Gualda.
This article has the objective to show the use of life oral history as methodological framework for qualitative data collection and analysis, aimed to understand the meaning of hemodialysis and the impact of this therapeutic modality of treatment in the patient's life in the Hemodialysis Unity at the University Hospital at the University of São Paulo.
The aim of this study was to check if the evaluators and evaluated follow the operational criterion that direct the nursing staffs evaluation of HU; to the identify the graduation conferred to obrigatory and optional forecasters by evaluators and evaluated; to identify the optional forecaster chosen by evaluators and evaluated and prepare the researches to a change at the process of nursing staff's evaluation of HU. The results showed that different functional categories had similar points of view; there were high level of agreement between them; both values attribution as optional forecaster selection. It's demonstrated that there's coherence at the process of nursing staff's performance evaluation, the evaluators shaves with evaluated the same pre-supposition about the purpose and importance of the forecasters insert in the instrument of performance evaluation.
This article makes an deals with ethnographic research in nursing. It discusses the goal and the relevance of this kind of research the professional context. It includes also issues related to rigor and ethics. It points out basic aspects of participant-observation and ethnographic interview methods, and makes an overview of data collection, analysis and utilization of this data for culture description.
This paper focus on some characteristics of the qualitative methodology. Some of these methods are explored such as: participatory research, phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnography critical theory Perspectives of their utilization in nursing research are examined.
The authors make a short review of the development of Transcultural Nursing, present several major concepts and definitions as well as some major assumptions of this theory. Some considerations are made on the "Sunrise" Theoretical Conceptual Model of Transcultural Care Diversity and Universality, developed and used by Leininger since 1965 to the present.
The authors use the Precede Health Education Model for making social, epidemiology, educational and behavioral diagnosis for breast cancer. It helps self-exam made monthly by women from Vargem Grande Paulista--Basic Health Unit--São Paulo.