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I K Utyama

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PubMed1989

[Psychological support: a necessity for nursing students].

Taking into account the psychological difficulties of students in the beginning of their clinical practice, the authors design a course called "Psychology Applied to Nursing" aiming at providing psychological support to students in the fourth term of their Nursing and Obstetrics Course at the Universidade de Londrina. The results, according to the students and teachers evaluation, were satisfactory, leading to an integration between the formative and psychological aspects of nursing.

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[Nursing research on the use of venous catheters for hospitalized patients].

This report shows that intravenous catheterisation has been required for 59.4% of the patients in this sample. The main reason identified for catheterisation was the difficulty in accessing peripheral veins. The wound dressing was applied for 100% of the patients and the procedure itself was carried out each 48 hours in 89.8% of them. The intravenous catheter stood for 10 days in 52% of the cases and it was removed in 34.8% for intravenous drugs interruption and the other reasons were related as to technical problems. The most present microorganism was Staphylococcus aureus in 20.3% of the catheter cultures.

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[Interdisciplinary integration in nursing teaching and learning: our experience].

In 1996, a group of professors of the areas of Immunology, Histology, Nutrition, Pathology and Foundations of Nursing, began the Educational Project with the Support Program to Integrated Projects of Education and Health Services (PAPIENS), in the Nursing graduation course of the State University of Londrina. This Program is inserted in the project UNI subsidized by the Kellogg Foundation, which has propitiated innovations in the teaching-learning process, as well as changes in the curriculum of courses in the health area of the university mentioned before. This project has as its linking content the subject wounds. The main objective is to propitiate to students the construction of knowledge, regarding this theme, through the articulation and integration of the different areas involved, as well as through the observation of patients who carry wounds. It was observed that the project has facilitated student's learning and also prepared teachers for the challenge of the Nursing Integrated Curriculum to be implemented in the year 2000.

Education, Nursing↗