Biomedical subjects

Maria Alice Dias da Silva Lima

Publications and source records attributed to Maria Alice Dias da Silva Lima.

8 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2005

[Fundaments for managing process in care practices].

A reflection on the elements that structure the process of the nurse's work with health and his/ her action. The study deals with health work, technologies in health and the management of care as pillars that serve as bases for the reflection, with the aim of helping the enlargement of the visibility of the nurse's acts. The importance of those fundaments for the exercise of care practices in the managing processes is highlighted.

Nursing Care↗

PubMed2004

[Receptiveness and links to clients in a Family Health Program team].

This study analyzes the work by a Family Health Program (FHP) team, identifying the potential for developing receptiveness by the team and fostering links between the health professionals and clients. This was a case study with a qualitative approach. The data were collected through free observation, a semi-structured interview, and documents. A dialectic approach was used to analyze the material. A relationship was observed between the organization of the work process and the achievement of receptiveness and links to clients. There are gaps in receptiveness to health services clients, especially in the openness to demand, accountability for the population's health problems, and encouragement for client autonomy. Production of links is related to the development of clinical activities. According to FHP team members, health services clients are viewed alternately as subjects and objects. The principles and guidelines of the Unified National Health System (SUS) do not represent a project as conceived by the health professionals. The study concludes by proposing greater nursing staff involvement in clinical activities and receptiveness to users of the program.

Community Health Services↗

PubMed2004

[Light technologies as guidelines for the work process in health services].

This article presents a reflection about the main characteristics of a techno-assistential model of Health Surveillance and Life Protection, suggesting light technologies (acceptance, bond, search for autonomy and management, as goals for the work process) as guidelines for the practices in healthcare, in search of life quality for the service users.

Biomedical Technology↗

PubMed2004

[Multiple activities carried out by nurses at a hospitalization unit].

The study aimed at knowing the activities performed by nurses in internment units of ageneral hospital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The data have been collected by means of free observation per time sampling, semi-structured interviews and consultation on documents. The subjects were nurses who act in the internment units who were chosen at random. The results showed that the nurse coordinates the care, executes several procedures and provides infrastructure conditions for the development of the collective work. The nurse articulation capacity has been identified both in relation to the nursing team organization and in the organization of the hospital environment.

Nursing Service, Hospital↗

PubMed2003

[Health care access and receptivity to users in a unit in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil].

This study focuses on users' views of factors influencing quality of care at a health care unit in the city of Porto Alegre, relating to access and receptivity. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview and participatory observation and treated using thematic analysis. The results compare ease and difficulties in geographic, economic, and functional access. Organization of services and professional competency were determinant factors in ease of reception, leading to user satisfaction. Poor reception and unsatisfactory professional performance were identified as difficulties. The study concluded that there is a need to increase the professional staff, train them in receiving users, implement a complementary modality for dental care, open the facility earlier for scheduling appointments, and prioritize care for residents of the catchment area.

Brazil↗

PubMed2002

[Experience with a group in nursing care for diabetics].

With the implementation of a diabetic group, the objective of this paper is to analyze the importance of this activity as a nurse's work tool and to evaluate it from the user's point-of-view. It is an experience report based on the information from the participating observation and the registrations in a field diary. It focuses the interpersonal relations, the understanding level of the received information, the diabetics' feelings and expectations. It was noticed that the human relationship and the experiences exchange based on cooperation contribute to the efficiency in the diabetes treatment.

Diabetes Mellitus↗

PubMedDate not supplied

[Nurse's image: review of the literature].

The society's image about the nurses is permeated of stereotypes that include figures like saints, prostitutes, witches, heroines and are related to the function of assisting doctors and to a lack of social life. Moreover, the image that the nurses have of themselves and of their work is negative, causing frustration for the lack of autonomy found on the professional reality. Seeking for a better understanding of this problem, a literature review was proceeded, aiming to characterize and analyze the nurse's image. The national scientific production is considered small on the subject. Conclusions indicate that stereotypes negatively influence nursing practice and that in Nursing history it is found many reasons for the existing distortions.

Brazil↗

PubMedDate not supplied

[Welcoming: soft technology in nurse's management processes].

This study aimed the identification of the use of soft technologies in nursing management processes and their interference in care production. It was constituted in a case study case of quality feature and the research subjects were nurses of a public hospital located in a city of Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected by means of free observation of the nurses' job. In their managing processes, it was identified the use of soft technologies, among them the welcoming, as well as some factors that present it, what makes possible to affirm that, when the nurse uses this technology, he/she produces and promotes care humanization.

Nursing Care↗