Elaine Machado de Oliveira

• Post doctor in Nursing
• PostDoc Position at Université Laval

Objective: To analyze the association of patient safety culture perceived by nursing professionals with incidents recorded during nursing shifts in intensive care units. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study that investigated patient safety culture measured by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture instrument. Descriptive statistics,...

Objective To analyze the association of patient safety culture perceived by nursing professionals with incidents recorded during nursing shifts in intensive care units. Methods This was a cross-sectional study that investigated patient safety culture measured by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture instrument. Descriptive statistics, chi-...

Objective: The objective of this review is to review and map data from studies on the humanization of care in intensive care units based on a conceptual framework. Introduction: The critical context of adult patients in intensive care units directs the focus on clinical medical interventions, drawing attention away from the humanization of care....

Background and Purpose Multidimensional tools could evaluate the dyspnea of patients with chronic lung disease. The aim was to validate the use of the French–Canadian version of the modified dyspnea index (MDI) among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and interstitial lung disease (ILD). Methods The Spearman test analyzed the conv...

Introdução: O uso do Nursing Activity Score permite correlacionar a carga de trabalho de enfermagem com os índices de avaliação prognóstica na unidade de terapia intensiva e auxiliar no desenvolvimento do processo de trabalho dos enfermeiros por meio do dimensionamento adequado da equipe. Objetivo: Analisar a associação entre variáveis clínicas e...

p>Objetivo: analisar a associação entre delirium e tempo de permanência na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva. Método: estudo de coorte prospectivo conduzido na terapia intensiva de um hospital universitário de São Paulo, Brasil, entre outubro e dezembro de 2017. Participaram todos os pacientes acima de 18 anos. As variáveis independentes foram os dados...

Objective: To estimate the cost of nursing care required and available through the use of the Nursing Activities Score. Method: Quantitative study, direct costing of nursing care required and available in the Intensive Care Units. Data collection included variables of the patients, nursing professionals and nursing workload measured by the Nursi...

Este estudo objetiva analisar o perfil dos pacientes admitidos em uma unidade de terapia intensiva oncológica. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo de abordagem quantitativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada no período de setembro a dezembro de 2016, através de sistema informatizado utilizado pela instituição. Foram admitidos 55 pacientes durante o perí...

Objective: to compare the patient severity and the nursing workload before and after the occurrence of moderate and severe adverse events in elderly hospitalized at intensive care units. Method: comparative study developed at nine intensive therapy units of a University Hospital in São Paulo. The events were collected from the patient histories an...

Objective: To compare the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) between the Assistance Sites in an Intensive Care Unit. Method: Descriptive, retrospective study, carried out in the Intensive Care Unit of a teaching hospital. The patients were organized in Assistance Sites according to their clinical characteristics and the nursing team's composition was...

Objective: to analyze the influence of workload, stress, Burnout, work satisfaction, the nursing team’s perception of the care environment, and the presence of adverse events in a Trauma Intensive Care Units. Method: an observational study conducted at the Intensive Trauma Therapy Unit 195 patients were prospectively followed for the collection of...

OBJECTIVE Verify if aging is an independent predictor of NW in ICU, according to age groups, and its predictive value as a determinant of NW in ICU. METHODS Study was conducted from 2012 to 2016. A convenience sample composed by patients (age ≥ 18) admitted to nine ICU belonging to a Brazilian hospital, was analyzed. Age was assumed as an independ...

Objective: to analyze the association between the environment of nursing practices and work satisfaction in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Method: a cross-sectional study was performed in eight adult ICUs of a public university hospital between 2012 and 2015. The Nursing Work Index-Revised (NWI-R), in their short forms, and the Index of Work Satisfac...

Objective: to identify the factors associated with the occurrence of adverse events in critical elderly patients admitted to intensive care unit according to demographic and clinical characteristics. Method: a retrospective cohort study was conducted in nine units of a teaching hospital. Data were collected from medical records and from monitoring...

Objective: To describe our experience in the many processes involved in the development of a Project on Research into Intensive Care Unit Patient Safety. Method: Mixed design study: historic cohort study of the collection of data on patients and on adverse events/incidents and transversal design on the collection of data on a nursing team. The d...

Objective To investigate emotional stress, coping and burnout among nursing staff and their association with biosocial factors and characteristics of work in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Method This was a cross-sectional study, conducted in eight ICUs at a teaching hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in October 2012. Biosocial data and infor...

Objective To analyze the influence of nursing workload on the occurrence of healthcare associated infection (HAI) in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to type of treatment. Method Retrospective cohort study developed in nine ICUs in São Paulo, Brazil, from September to December 2012. Nursing workload was measured by the Nursing...

Objective To identify the pattern of nursing interventions performed on trauma victims in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method Prospective study performed in the ICU of a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Nursing interventions were identified using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). Results The sample consisted of 200 patients, most of them male,...

Patient safety is a challenge for the quality in health care system. This study aimed to analyze the appropriateness of the allocation of nursing staff according to the hours of care required by patients and to identify the relationship between this allocation and adverse events/incidents (EA/I). This research was observational, descriptive and pro...

Este estudio tuvo como objetivos determinar la distribución de personal de enfermería conforme las horas de los cuidados requeridos por los pacientes y identificar la relación entre esta distribución con los eventos adversos/incidentes (EA/I). Estudio observacional, descriptivo y prospectivo, desarrollado en la UCI Clínicas de 4º y 6º piso de...

The study has resulted from the desire to comprehend how intensive care unit (ICU) nurses understand the caregiving process. The ICU nurses must be able to promote effective changes in the care provided, to give attention to adversities and be able to act promptly to attend several demands. AIM: understanding the meaning to nurses of the caregiving...

Objective: To understand the personal dimension of the work process for nurses working in intensive care units (ICU) of a university hospital in the state of São Paulo. Methods: A qualitative study using the phenomenological method. We interviewed 12 nurses working in adult, pediatric and coronary ICUs in this hospital; to analyze results, we used...

This study has resulted from the desire to comprehend how intensive care unit (ICU) nurses understand their work process. Nurses are the professionals on the team who concatenate the construction of live work as a result of their insertion in the work processes and their articulating potential on the team. This study aimed at understanding the mean...

This study has resulted from the desire to comprehend how intensive care unit (ICU) nurses understand their work process. Nurses are the professionals on the team who concatenate the construction of live work as a result of their insertion in the work processes and their articulating potential on the team. This study aimed at understanding the mean...

The Family Health Program proposes a new dynamics for the structuring of health service, as well as for its relationship with the community in its different levels of care. The aim of the present study was to analyze the significance of teamwork for professionals working in the Family Health Program. The study was carried out in the city of Conchas...

OBJECTIVE: The Family Health Program proposes a new dynamics for the structuring of health service, as well as for its relationship with the community in its different levels of care. The aim of the present study was to analyze the significance of teamwork for professionals working in the Family Health Program. METHODS: The study was carried out in...