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M M Leite

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PubMed1999

[Living with cleft lip and palate patients: experience of a nurse].

The purpose of this study was to understand the life of nurses in assisting the porter of cleft lip and palate In order to so we decided for a qualitative approach in the methodology of phenomenology. We interviewed nine subjects who took part of this study and their interviews were guided by this question: "How is it like to watch over/take care of patients with cleft lip and or palate?", The themes that emerged revealed the essence of the phenomenon in the nurse's perspective searching with the careful meanings to contribute to the improvement of assistance quality, thus offering subsidies to the development of a continuous educational program to the nursing team (staff).

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1999

[Analysis of the method used in the nursing staff performance evaluation at the USP University Hospital].

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.

Brazil↗
PubMed1998

[Teaching of nursing administration: the nurses' experience].

The purpose of this study was to disclose the nurses comprehension about the Nursing Administration discipline taught in the Nursing graduation course of the Nursing School of São Paulo University. We have followed the phenomenology as the methodological way, and MARTINS; BICUDO were taken as the basic authors and main axis of the research. Being guided by this referencial, we have done this study together with eight nurses and we could do a description and comprehension speeches trying to bring out the meaning of what was understood about their phenomenon studied. From the phenomenological analysis of the nurses' reports appeared the possibilities an limits of the teaching of this discipline.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1998

[Perception of university teachers of their ability to teach nursing].

Teaching Administration Nursing Service we've been worried about several variables of the instructive process that affect the teachers and the students, as advantage, attitudes, thinking and acting manner, values, expectations, previous experiences, among some. These uneasiness take us to check the educational practice experience, considering the teaching's ability. In this study, we intend to reveal the teacher's understanding about the ability to teach nursing throw the education's reality recognition. So, we adopted a quality methodology that allow us a comprehensive analysis of the teaching's speech at a Public University in São Paulo city. According to the methodology it was possible to get back four meaning unities that allowed us to prescribe the emerging subjects; teaching's understanding about technical ability, teaching's understanding about scientific-theretical ability, teaching's understanding about pedagogical ability and the teaching identity. This study permitted us to reveal some points considered outstanding about the teacher's ability, getting it back as the result in a complex and continuous process of technical, theoretical and pedagogical training, contained in a several factors, psychological, social, ethical, economical, political and historical. We still understanding that the teacher's reflections about the teaching reality, in its totality, favouring the awareness and interfering positivly in their criticism formation. Finally there is a necessity to set up schools formation and up-dating centers and establish human political resources compatible with a renewed political of na educational action.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1997

[Cardiac changes in children with AIDS].

PURPOSE: To describe the cardiac findings in children with AIDS, the follow-up with treatment and the correlation between clinical and pathological features. METHODS: We studied prospectively 25 children with clinical-laboratorial diagnosis of AIDS, ages between 3 months and 11 years, even those without cardiac symptoms. We classified the signs of AIDS following that of CDC-Atlanta 1994. Eight children died and it was done necropsy in six with macro and microscopic examinations. RESULTS: Fifteen cases had already complications of AIDS and were classified as C2 and C3, 5 as B2, 3 B1 and 2 as A1. Beside the symptoms related to the disease and infections we found signs of congestive heart failure III and IV (NYHA) in 5 children, pericardial effusion in 5, (one of them had cardiac tamponade). In the electrocardiogram (EKG), 8 children had repolarization abnormalities. In 1st echocardiogram (ECHO) we found some features of dilated myocardiopathy in 8 (6 were asymptomatic) 5 of those had pericardial effusion, one child had huge amount of pericardial liquid and also increased measures of intraventricular septum and posterior wall of left ventricle by ECHO and confirmed by necropsy examination. All cases of diagnosis of myocardiopathy received treatment with captopril and 4 also received furosemide and digoxina. Even under oral treatment three of them had deterioration of heart failure but after combined anti-retroviral drugs they showed better cardiac functions. From the six necropsied cases, two had increased heart weight without myocarditis, one had toxoplasma pancarditis and other one had fibrocalcic vasculopathy. CONCLUSION: We found several assymptomatic cases already with decreased ventricular function. Some worsened of heart failure even under apropriate treatment and showed better cardiac index after combined anti-retroviral drugs.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1994

[The importance of administration applied to nursing practice according to the opinions of nursing graduates].

The objective of this study was to know the opinions that the students have, when they begin the course of Administration applied of Nursing. The results indicated that the students considered administration a manner how the nurses are organizing their works and that nursing activity administration is to conciliate the assistance with the bureaucratic service.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1994

[The significance of nursing administration as seen by graduates. II].

The objective of this study was to know the opinions about the significance, felt by the students of the Nursing School of the University of São Paulo, at the end of the theoretical part of the course of administration applied to nursing practice. Therefore the opinion of 30 students at 8th semester of the Nursing School has been collected. The results demonstrated that the students understood, the administration applied to nursing practice, as an instrument for the nurses work and to increase the quality of assistance, as well as for the development of the nursing staff and, the administrative functions as a role which has to be developed in the nursing professional practice.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗