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I A Mendes

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PubMed1996

Personal and territorial space of the patients: a nursing ethics question.

Using the technique of the critical incidents, situations and behaviors mentioned by hospitalized patients were identified as far as the invasion of their personal and territorial space was concerned. The analysis of 80 reports of critical incidents revealed: a) 80 situations which were grouped in 11 categories; b) 95 health personnel behaviors related to personal and territorial invasion. These reports were distributed in nine behavior categories related to invasion of personal space and seven categories related to invasion of territorial space. Considering the reported behaviors, the authors emphasize: lack of respect for the patients, making noises and turning the lights on. The data showed that the health personnel do not respect the personal and territorial space of the hospitalized patients. This fact has several negative consequences to the patients such as: negative feelings, decreased quality of assistance, alteration in the pattern of sleep, among others.

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PubMed1995

Perspectives of participative management in nursing.

Nursing administration takes on a bureaucratic orientation in Brazil. In this article, the authors report a strategy of participative management as a useful resource for transforming bureaucratic organizations. Principles of participative management, in the context of a social model of management, are presented and applied to nursing.

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PubMed1994

[Attitudes of professional nurses towards burn patients: elaboration and reliability tests of a measurement instrument].

In this study it was developed an Instrument for Measuring the Attitudes of Nursing Professionals toward Patients with Burns. 194 items, divided into subscales, expressing favorable and unfavorable attitudes toward patients with burns, were analyzed, concerning their apparent and context validity. Following this psychometric analysis 170 items were selected to compose the definitive scale. The confiability coefficient estimated by the split-half method for the different subscales ranged from 0.61 to 0.82. The confiability coefficient of the total scale was equal to 0.92.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1993

[The trend in the locus of control in diabetic patients].

The tendency of locus of control in diabetic patients is a theme approached by the nurse as an educator. The objectives of this study was to test reliability of the "Instrumento de Medida de Locus de Controle à Saúde (IMLCS)" (Instrument of Measurement of Locus of Control for Health); to confront the distribution of responses to different items of the "IMLCS" by a group of diabetic patients; and to verify the predominance of locus of control for health in the subjects studied. To reach these objectives the "IMLCS" was applied. The data showed that there was a prevalence of subjects with a locus of external control, that the different items were answered in a favorable manner by the subjects and that the scale was valid for the population of diabetic patients. We believe that these results show the need for rethinking the role of the nurse in the education of diabetic patients.

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PubMed1993

[The Ribeirao Preto Nursing School of the University of Sao Paulo: center for collaboration with the World Health Organization].

The objectives of this article were to divulge the Nursing School of Ribeirão Preto University of São Paulo as a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Nursing Research Development and to contribute to is history, by registering the facts concerning this designation. Based on the theoretical framework about the influence of external environment in organizations of excellence, some factors that guide such designation by World Health Organization are identified. Since the concept of Collaborating Center was expressed, this Center is characterized by its Reference Terms and compromises accomplished from 1988 through 1992, considering the tendencies and perspectives.

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PubMed1992

The importance of nonverbal communication during the preanesthesia period.

This article discusses the phenomenon of nonverbal communication as evidenced between preoperative patients and the nurses attending them. Ten such patients and the nursing group assigned to them were directly observed for frequency of nonverbal interaction during the period immediately preceding surgery. Patients' nonverbal expressions of tension, fear, anxiety, and so on were noted, videotaped, and then analyzed according to three categories of interaction: positive, neutral, and negative. Of 2,173 registered nonverbal interactions, 65.1% (1,416) were rated as negative, a finding that should alert nurses to the need to identify patients' manifestations of anxiety so as to provide assurance and a sense of courage preceding surgery. Positive means of communicating nonverbally are discussed.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1991

[Scientific indoctrination: a modality for incentives in nursing research].

The scientific commencement is pointed out as one of the strategies to be used to involve the future nurse with research activities and results. They also offer late displaying experiences in this model of teaching in two projects coordinated by them and granted by CNPq. This result includes synopsis of eleven works which were carried out by the students. They conclude by saying that these future nurses will be able to stimulate the research in their work context as a consequence of this way of extra-curricular teaching.

Brazil↗
PubMed1989

[Focusing the administrative exercise within the whole of nursing functions].

Within the hospital context, the nurse cannot avoid the administrative function, even though this is a controversial issue in Brazilian nursing. To focus on the problem, in the present study we set out to identify the set of functions of nurses working on the admission floors and to determine the distribution of administrative functions according to their bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic characteristics. The data were collected at four admission units by intermittent observation of work performed by nurses in 1985. The following set of functions were identified: administration (62.5%), patient assistance (19.2%), teaching and research (3.8%), functions that could be delegated to others (6.8%) and personal (7.6%). The administrative functions were classified into bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic with a respective distribution of 77% and 23%. The study indicates that the administrative function is one of the elements defining the nurse's profile, even though the authors believe that this function should be better oriented.

Brazil↗
PubMed1989

[Knowledge, health and research in nursing].

The authors describe the consolidation of nursing as a profession and the development of this type of knowledge, reporting some health problems in Latin America. They characterize the scientific production in Brazilian nursing through the analysis of evaluation studies on research. They finally determine how far this knowledge has developed in this century.

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PubMed1989

[The importance of the administration of care to the patient].

The administrative role of the nurse has been a polemic matter for the theory of nursing. The practice of nursing administration has been limited to meeting the employers and other professionals expectations. In this context the authors attempt to characterize their position towards the importance of the administration of the assistance scheme as one of the roles of the nurse.

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