Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to F M Schneider.
Nurses' attitudes toward three types of oral liquid unit dose packages--glass, plastic and aluminum--were determined. Thirty nurses who previously had not used unit dose packaging on their units were asked to evaluate the three types of packaging. The nurses preferred both aluminum and plastic over the glass containers; there was no significant difference in attitude toward the plastic and aluminum packages.
This preliminary study aims at inquiring the patients' perceptions about their own illness process. Therefore, 19 clinical inpatients from the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre interviewed. After a qualitative data analysis, it was observed that in a medical consultation there are, at least, two perspectives concerning the illness process. First, the physician's perspective, taking into account systems and organs structural and/or functional abnormalities (disease), and second, the patient's perspective, based on her or his perception of events that occur when getting sick (illness). In addition, the patient's perspective generally presents a preoccupation with the etiology of the disease. Keeping in mind these different viewpoints, it is crucial to establish the medical-patient dialog, aiming at reaching a better relationship between the patient and her/his physician.