Valéria Lerch Lunardi

• Nursing PHD
• Professor (Associate) at Federal University of Rio Grande

Objective to know nurses' perception in relation to the Nursing Process directed to newborns in a usual risk maternity ward. Method an action-research study was conducted between September 2021 and January 2022 with nurses from a usual risk maternity ward in southern Brazil. The data collected through focus groups were submitted to content analysi...

Objective to know nurses' perception in relation to the Nursing Process directed to newborns in a usual risk maternity ward. Method an action-research study was conducted between September 2021 and January 2022 with nurses from a usual risk maternity ward in southern Brazil. The data collected through focus groups were submitted to content analysi...

Objective: To understand the relation between family culture and hospital institutional culture. Method: Qualitative study, carried out in 2017, with relatives of children admitted to a Hospital in southern Brazil. The study included non-participant observation, to gain familiarity with the investigated cultural context; participant observation,...

Objective: to discuss the evolution of the idealization process, construction and implementation of the Project of Profissional Master in Nursing of the Federal Council of Nursing, established in the Capes/Cofen Cooperation Agreement. Methodology: documental study based on data collected from archives, especially letters, processes, documents, minu...

Background and Purpose This study was aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure the frequency and the intensity of the moral distress experienced by nursing students. Method Methodological study in which a guideline with eight steps: (a) to determine what to measure, (b) to produce items, (c) format to measure, (d) review by experts, (e) va...

Objetivo: identificar a produção científica acerca do sofrimento moral (SM) entre estudantes da área da saúde. Método: revisão integrativa que incluiu artigos originais indexados nas bases de dados Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) e no portal PUBMED...

Objective: To know the beliefs, values and practices of families in the care of hospitalized children. Method: Qualitative study developed at the Pediatrics Unit of a University Hospital in southern Brazil through non-participant observation, participant observation and interview with children’s family members. The methodological framework of Ethn...

Objective: to identify the guiding axes of the documents that grounded the Nursing Now campaign and relate the recommendations of these documents to the campaign goals. Method: documentary research, based on the analysis of the documents that promoted the Nursing Now campaign. The data were collected between March and April 2020, using a form stru...

This study aimed to understand how health professionals has strengthened and encouraged to make the reports of violence against children and adolescents in Rio Grande / RS. This is an exploratory and descriptive qualitative approach, carried out with seven health professionals who reported violence against children and adolescents. Data collection...

Background Professors of nursing sometimes experience specific situations in their daily practice that conflict with their values and ethical principles and may culminate in moral distress. Moral distress occurs when one is prevented from acting according to his or her knowledge or values, or what one considers to be ethically sound. Objectives To...

RESUMO: refletir acerca da importância da utilização dos cuidados paliativos (CP) no cotidiano de trabalho dos trabalhadores de enfermagem à luz da abordagem teórica humanística de Paterson e Zderad. CP tem por finalidade proporcionar ao paciente fora da possibilidade de cura e com risco de vida e sua família melhor qualidade de vida. Quando o trab...

Objectives: to analyze association between burnout and sociodemographic and occupational features of military nursing workers. Methods: a cross-sectional study, developed in five military hospitals of the Army of Rio Grande do Sul State, among 167 workers from military nursing from December 2015 to May 2016. Sociodemographic and occupational quest...

Objetivo: discorrer sobre a evolução do processo de idealização, construção e implementação do projeto de Mestrado Profissional em Enfermagem do Conselho Federal de Enfermagem, estabelecido no Acordo de Cooperação Capes/Cofen. Metodologia: estudo documental fundamentado em dados coletados em arquivos, especialmente, ofícios, processos, documentos,...

Objetivo: implementar e validar um protocolo de banho em pacientes internados em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Adulta. Metodologia: pesquisa de implementação, realizada em 2018, utilizando a ferramenta do PDSA (Planejar, Fazer - Do, Estudar - Study e Agir - Act), possibilitando que o processo fosse reavaliado em cada etapa. Validação pelo AGREE...

Background Moral distress is considered to be the negative feelings that arise when one knows the morally correct response to a situation but cannot act because of institutional or hierarchal constraints. Objectives To analyze moral distress and its relation with sociodemographic and academic variables in undergraduate students from different univ...

Objective. To know the perception of health, education and social service professionals about the records and notifications of violence against children and adolescents, carried out in a municipality in the south of Brazil. Methods. This is an exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative approach, specifically developed in places that integrate child...

This study's objective was to identify the prevalence and types of bullying experienced by elementary students. A total of 406 students from the 5th to 9th years from seven public schools located in the South of Brazil participated. Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences...

Pesquisa qualitativa e exploratória, que objetivou compreender a relação entre a produção de subjetividade do enfermeiro e as configurações do desejo relacionado à implementação do Processo de Enfermagem. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas junto a 12 enfermeiras de dois Hospitais Universitários, diferenciados pela imp...

Objective: To know the barriers in the process of building family cultural care for the child in the hospital. Methodology: This is a qualitative study with a cross-cultural theoretical reference of Madeleine Leininger, called Theory of Diversity and Cultural Universality of Care, and with a methodological reference of the ethno-inference. It was...

Resumo Compreender como os trabalhadores da equipe de enfermagem se percebem na inter-relação complexa no cuidado ao indivíduo enfermo e seu familiar cuidador no processo de morte e morrer. Pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida em Hospital Universitário no período de março a junho de 2016, inspirada na metodologia de Leininger. Participaram 24 familia...

Estudo que objetivou verificar a percepção dos enfermeiros acerca de sua atuação ante os direitos dos pacientes, considerando os fundamentos: tomada de decisão, identificação do paciente e autonomia pessoal. Estudo quantitativo, descritivo-observacional e transversal, realizado num Hospital Universitário de Brasília-DF. Dados foram coletados a part...

Objetivo: conhecer os efeitos adversos e complicações vivenciadas pela equipe de saúde e conhecer os cuidados de enfermagem realizados durante a aplicação da hipotermia terapêutica. Metodologia: pesquisa com abordagem qualitativa, realizada em 2014, mediante entrevistas semiestruturadas com trabalhadores da saúde de Unidades de Terapia Intensiva de...

Objective To know the obstacles faced by the professionals to work in network and challenges of the work of the professionals in the Reference Center Specialized in Social Assistance (CREAS) of a municipality in the extreme south of Brazil. Methods It is a qualitative study, developed with twelve professionals of a CREAS. Data collection was perfo...

Objetivo: conhecer as legislações referentes ao testamento vital em diferentes países, estabelecendo um paralelo com a instituída no Brasil. Método: realizou-se análise documental de legislações governamentais nacionais e estrangeiras, adotando a análise de conteúdo de Bardin nos materiais localizados até 2013. Resultados: aproximadamente quinze...

OBJETIVO Conhecer as vantagens relacionadas à aplicabilidade das diretivas antecipadas de vontade no contexto hospitalar na perspectiva de enfermeiros, médicos e familiares. MÉTODO Estudo qualitativo, descritivo e exploratório com entrevistas semiestruturadas, de outubro a novembro de 2014, com enfermeiros, médicos e familiares de doentes em fase...

Objetivo: identificar as ações dos enfermeiros no exercício da advocacia do paciente, na literatura científica internacional publicada nos últimos dez anos. Método: revisão integrativa da literatura, cujos dados foram coletados na base de dados Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature e SAGE Journals Online, utilizando-se os descri...

Objective: to identify stress triggers in the educational environment as perceived by nursing students. Method: descriptive-exploratory, quantitative study, conducted with 146 nursing students to whom the Stress Assessment Scale was applied, between august and September 2013. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and linear regression were...

Objective: To understand the resistance strategies adopted by undergraduate students in nursing, faced with situations of moral distress (MD). Method: Qualitative research, developed in three universities in the south of Brazil, two federal and one private, with 21 undergraduate students in nursing from December 2015 to February 2016; the data w...

Objective: To identify strategies and spaces used by professors to promote the development of the moral competence of nursing undergraduate students. Method: Qualitative research, developed with 20 nursing professors, through a semi-structured interview, from July to October 2016. Data were submitted to discursive textual analysis. Results: Th...

Objetivo: Conhecer como o familiar cuidador percebe sua inter-relação com membros da equipe de enfermagem e com seu familiar enfermo no processo de morrer. Metodologia: Estudo qualitativo, desenvolvido em um hospital universitário no sul do Brasil entre março e junho de 2016, que se fundamentou na metodologia de Leininger e na teoria de Morin. Par...

Objetivo: compreender como os enfermeiros entendem a aplicabilidade das diretivas antecipadas de vontade no cuidado em final de vida. Metodologia: pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva e exploratória, realizada com oito enfermeiros de um hospital universitário do Sul do Brasil, em dezembro de 2014, a partir de entrevistas semiestruturadas, submetidas à...

RESUMEN La educación es uno de los principales papeles que asume el enfermero en su práctica profesional. En la práctica docente influyen varios factores que reflejan satisfacción y sufrimiento en la actividad docente. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo conocer la producción científica sobre las facilidades y dificultades en la práctica de los...

Objective: to understand situations of moral suffering experienced at work by nurse educators of technical courses in nursing. Method: a qualitative study with discursive textual analysis by means of semi-structured interviews with ten nurse educators at two professional educational institutions in southern Brazil. Results: two categories were es...

Objetivo: Conocer la epidemiología de la violencia contra los niños, niñas y adolescentes atendidos en un Centro de Referencia Especializado para la Asistencia Social (CREAS), a partir de los registros de las notificaciones entre enero de 2009 y mayo de 2014. Métodos: Estudio descriptivo y documental, de enfoque cuantitativo que examinó 800 histor...

Objective learn the understanding of nurses, physicians and family caregivers, considering the possibility of becoming terminally ill, on the applicability of advance directives or living wills. Method a qualitative study was developed with nurses, physicians and family caregivers of patients in the end stage of life. Data were collected between O...

Objective. To know the contributions of the educational process in Palliative Care during the undergraduate level for the professional action of nurses in the care of patients at the end of life. Methods. This is a qualitative research, with discursive thematic analysis, based on Morin’s theory of complexity. It was attended by seven newly-trained...

Objetivou-se analisar os fatores macro e micropolíticos da produção de subjetividade do Enfermeiro que subsidiam a tomada de decisões no processo de cuidar da Enfermagem. Foi adotado o delineamento qualitativo de pesquisa. O cenário investigativo foi um hospital filantrópico do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Os participantes do estudo foram doze Enfe...

Objetivo: destacar a relevância da gestão das chefias de enfermagem para a construção de ambientes éticos, em que o usual silêncio sobre os problemas éticos vivenciados seja substituído pela liberdade de enfrentá-los. Metodologia: trata-se de uma reflexão teórica em que enfocaremos a organização das instituições de saúde e a ética, o sofrimento mor...

Objective: To identify how the organization of nursing work influences on the production of subjectivity and on the desire settings related to the Nursing Process, in the professional context. Methods: Qualitative research conducted in two public University Hospitals, distinguished by the implementation and non-deployment of the Nursing Process, w...

Objetivo: realizar uma reflexão acerca das barreiras, facilitadores e possíveis implicações do exercício da advocacia do paciente pelos enfermeiros. Resultados: essa reflexão resulta de uma leitura minuciosa da literatura internacional acerca da advocacia do paciente, acrescida de estudos nacionais e internacionais acerca do sofrimento moral e sua...

Objective: to understand the difficulties and limitations in the implementation of advance directives of will in the hospital context. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study conducted by means of semi-structured interviews with nurses, resident physicians and family caregivers. The data were analyzed by using discursive textual ana...

The objective was the analysis of the macro-political and micro-political factors of the nurse's production of subjectivity that permeate the decision-making process in Nursing care. We adopted qualitative research design. The scenario was a philanthropic hospital in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The study participants were twelve nurses that wor...

Objetivo: conhecer como as vivências de docentes de cursos técnicos de enfermagem têm contribuído para seu sofrimento moral (SM). Metodologia: pesquisa qualitativa, mediante entrevistas semiestruturadas, com dez enfermeiros docentes de duas instituições de ensino profissionalizantes do extremo sul do Brasil, e análise textual discursiva. Resultados...

Objetivo: conhecer os fatores que determinam a satisfação com a experiência acadêmica entre estudantes de graduação em enfermagem. Método: pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva, desenvolvida com 27 estudantes de graduação em enfermagem de uma universidade pública do Sul do Brasil, mediante entrevistas semiestruturadas. A coleta de dados ocorreu nos mes...

Objetivo: Conhecer a produção científica da enfermagem acerca do cuidado de si. Método: Realizou-se uma revisão integrativa, cujos dados foram coletados na base de dados Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde e na biblioteca Scientific Eletronic Library Online, através das palavras-chave: enfermagem e cuidado de si, sendo enco...

Objetivou-se conhecer a percepção de enfermeiras de uma Unidade de Clínica Médica sobre os cuidados paliativos. Pesquisaqualitativa, desenvolvida através de entrevista semiestruturada e análise textual discursiva. Emergiram duas categorias: Percepçõesde enfermeiras acerca dos cuidados paliativos e o modo como as enfermeiras exercem seu fazer diante...

Atualmente, a área da Enfermagem, no CNPq, tem 167 bolsistas de produtividade em pesquisa; na CAPES, são 67 Programas, com 33 cursos de doutorado, 50 de mestrado acadêmico e 15 de mestrado profissional(1). No triênio 2010-2012, esses Programas relataram à CAPES a publicação de 9.206 artigos, sendo 2.787 em periódicos Qualis A, ocupando o sexto luga...

Objetivo: buscou-se conhecer a percepção dos pacientes acerca dos procedimentos terapêuticos utilizados pelos trabalhadores da Enfermagem para o alívio da dor. Metodologia: estudo qualitativo com 38 pacientes de um Hospital Público. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevista semiestruturada e submetidos à análise textual discursiva. Resultados:...

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the reports of violence against children and adolescents in the period between January 2009 and May 2014 in a municipality protection institution of Rio Grande, RS. Methods: This is a descriptive and documentary study with a quantitative approach that analyzed 800 medical records of Specialized Reference Ce...

This study aimed to discover how nurses have exercised patient advocacy in the hospital context. A qualitative, exploratory-descriptive research was carried out at a university hospital in the South of Brazil. The respondents were 16 nurses, chosen through non-probable snowball sampling. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducte...

Education is one of the main roles that nurses assume in their professional practice. The teaching practice has been influenced by many factors that have reverberated in satisfaction and suffering in the teaching activity. The study aimed to assess the scientific production about the facilities and difficulties in the practice of nursing teachers i...

This study aimed to understand how nursing professionals perceive the care provided to patients with terminal illness in the hospital environment. This was an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, conducted with 23 professionals in the ambulatory service of a university hospital in southern Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were used for...

OBJECTIVE Understanding the meanings attributed by family caregivers of children in hospital environments about their interactions with nursing professionals. METHODS This qualitative study used Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical reference and Grounded Theory as the methodological framework. It was carried out in a Pediatrics Center in south...

Objective: to identify the coping strategies used by nursing students in a university in southern Brazil, establishing the relationship between the sociodemographic and academic variables examined. Method: an exploratory, descriptive, quantitative study, carried out with 146 nursing students, through application of the Coping Strategies Inventory....

OBJECTIVE Analyzing beliefs and actions of nurses in exercising patient advocacy in a hospital context.METHODA quantitative cross-sectional exploratory and descriptive study, conducted with 153 nurses from two hospitals in southern Brazil, one public and one philanthropic, by applying Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale - Brazilian version. Data were...

OBJECTIVE Understanding nursing actions in the practice of inpatient advocacy in a burn unit.METHODA single and descriptive case study, carried out with nurses working in a referral burn center in southern Brazil. Data were collected through focus group technique, between February and March 2014, in three meetings. Data was analysed through discurs...

O presente estudo tem por objetivo analisar as produções científicas acerca da violência intrafamiliar contra crianças e adolescentes notificadas por profissionais de saúde. Trata-se de uma revisão da literatura realizada a partir de artigos, legislações, manuais do Ministério da Saúde, teses, dissertações e livros. Apoiando-se em Foucault, reconhe...

Objective: to adapt culturally and validate the Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale for Brazilian nurses. Method: methodological study carried out with 153 nurses from two hospitals in the South region of Brazil, one public and the other philanthropic. The cross-cultural adaptation of the Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale was performed according t...

Working in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) may have health community agents (HCA) experience the confrontation with different expressions of moral problems that might cause moral distress (MD). We have made a qualitative, exploratory-descriptive study to understand how the work of the multi professional team in the FHS contributes to the experienc...

Objective: To learn the perception of health professors who integrate a university project to support family/caregivers of elderly people with Alzheimer disease about the family (re)organization based on its complexity. Methods: Descriptive and exploratory study with qualitative approach made with health professionals who participate in a support...

characterizing the national and international scientifi c literature about the advanced directives of living will as applied to the terminally ill patient. integrative review considering the articles published in Portal Capes, SciELO, LILACS, MEDLINE, Journal of Bioethics and Bioethikos, with the descriptors: Advanced directives, Wills regarding li...

Resumo: Objetivou-se conhecer as percepções de universitários acerca da visibilidade da enfermagem. Utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa do tipo exploratória, através da técnica de entrevista com dezenove universitários dos Cursos de Enfermagem, Medicina, Educação Física e Psicologia de uma Universidade Federal do sul do país. Os dados foram subme...

Resumo: conhecer a produção científica nacional de enfermagem acerca da morte/morrer em ambientes de Unidade de Terapia Intensiva. Revisão integrativa realizada através dos descritores morte, unidades de terapia intensiva e enfermagem, entre os anos de 2005 e 2011, obtendo-se um corpus de 14 artigos. RESULTADOS: foram construídas três categorias: p...

Objective: To identify predictors of stress and coping strategies adopted by nursing students. Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted with 146 nursing students. The research instruments consisted of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC) and the Instrument for the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students (ASNS). Data were analyzed using the Pe...

Analizar la satisfacción con la experiencia académica y su relación con variables sociodemográficas en estudiantes de pregrado de enfermería de una universidad pública del sur de Brasil. Estudio cuantitativo, realizado con 170 estudiantes mediante la aplicación de la Escala de Satisfacción con la experiencia académica. Se utilizó estadística descri...

The objective of this study was to demonstrate ethical aspects involved in the donation, collection and transplantation of organs and tissues through the experiences of workers in an intra-hospital committee for donation of organs and tissues for transplant. Exploratory qualitative research developed with eleven health workers. Data collection was...

to investigate the burnout syndrome and its relationship with demographic and academic variables among undergraduate nursing students at a public university in Southern Brazil. a quantitative study with 168 students, by applying an adaptation of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey, validated for this study. We used descriptive and varian...

The objective of this study was to perceive the death-dying process from the perspective of nursing students. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research study. Data were collected between June and July 2013, from three focus groups with six nursing students at a University Center located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul,...

Este estudio tuvo como objetivo conocer la percepción del padre adolescente cuanto a su interacción con el servicio de salud, escuela y comunidad. Se trata de un recorte de la investigación multicéntrica Redes Sociales de Apoyo a la Paternidad en la adolescencia, con abordaje cualitativo, exploratorio, descriptivo, realizado con 14 padres adolescen...

La escala del sufrimiento moral fue proyectada para evaluar la intensidad y frecuencia del sufrimiento moral vividos por los profesionales de enfermería a partir de situaciones cotidianas. Se objetivó analizar las características psicométricas de la escala adaptadas para la enfermería brasileña. A través del análisis factorial, se identificaron cin...

Objective: To investigate the frequency with which the characteristic signs and symptoms of the Burnout syndrome are experienced by undergraduate nursing students. Method: This is a quantitative study, conducted with 168 students, through the application of a scale of signs and symptoms of the Burnout syndrome for students, which was constructed an...

This study aimed to analyze the nurse's ways of production of subjectivity in decision-making processes that involve nursing care. We adopted qualitative research design. The investigative scenario was a philanthropic hospital in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The study participants were twelve nurses working in this institution. For data collecti...

Objective: To identify the frequency and intensity of moral distress experienced by nurses, technicians and nursing assistants who worked in hospitals in the South of Rio Grande do Sul State. Method: A survey research was conducted with 334 nursing workers from three institutions, through a questionnaire of moral distress. Constructs were valida...

The study aimed to know, in Foucault's view, how the family caregiver of the child deals with the rules and routines in the hospital. Descriptive qualitative study, conducted in the second half of 2011. It had the Grounded Theory as methodological framework. It was developed in the pediatric unit of a university hospital in southern Brazil, with ei...

to identify relationships between moral distress and Burnout in the professional performance from the perceptions of the experiences of nursing workers. this is a survey type study with 375 nursing workers working in three different hospitals of southern Rio Grande do Sul, with the application of adaptations of the Moral Distress Scale and the Masl...

Esse ensaio teve por objetivo refletir sobre a complexidade do cuidado de enfermagem ao idoso valorizando a abordagem ecossistêmica da saúde. A complexidade do cuidado ao idoso com perspectiva ecossistêmica é suportada por princípios epistemológicos e compreendida como processo de construção do cuidado, no qual se retomam, em diferentes momentos e...

There have been recurrent reports of fragilities in the Brazilian health system, especially in public institutions. In this commentary, I argue that moral distress in nursing in Brazil can still be considered an innovative and important subject of study. I also highlight the relevance of engaging educational institutions in the development of polic...

RESUMO Objetivou-se conhecer as percepções dos trabalhadores de enfermagem que atendem pacientes fora da possibilidade de cura e com risco de vida, acerca dos Cuidados Paliativos. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória, descritiva. A coleta de dados ocorreu ao longo de 2011, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada, com 23 trabalhadores de e...

Nursing construction image is permeated by historical socioeconomic and cultural aspects. This theme aims to understand the perception of nurses regarding the visibility of nursing staff's daily work. This qualitative research is exploratory, with 30 nurses at a university hospital in southern Brazil. The data was collected from July to October 201...

El objetivo fue analizar producciones científicas de enfermería publicadas en el periodo 2005 y 2010 que utilizó el método convergente-asistencial. Es una revisión integrativa para responder a la cuestión de la adecuación del diseño metodológico en los estudios que lo han utilizado. Se consultó siete periódicos brasileños, de noviembre a diciembre...

Para conocer las manifestaciones del síndrome de burnout presentes entre los estudiantes de grado en enfermería, se realizó una investigación cualitativa con 24 estudiantes de grado en Enfermería de una universidad pública del sur de Brasil, mediante entrevistas semi-estructuradas. Se utilizó el análisis textual discursivo, definiendo a priori tres...

Objetivou-se conhecer as percepções dos trabalhadores de enfermagem que atendem pacientes fora da possibilidade de cura e com risco de vida, acerca dos Cuidados Paliativos. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória, descritiva. A coleta de dados ocorreu ao longo de 2011, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada, com 23 trabalhadores de enfermage...

There have been recurrent reports of fragilities in the Brazilian health system, especially in public institutions. In this commentary, I argue that moral distress in nursing in Brazil can still be considered an innovative and important subject of study. I also highlight the relevance of engaging educational institutions in the development of polic...

Revisao integrativa que objetivou identificar caracteristicas metodologicas empregadas nas publicacoes cientificas da Enfermagem que utilizaram o Grupo Focal como tecnica de coleta de dados. O levantamento bibliografico foi realizado em novembro de 2010, nas bases de dados da Biblioteca Virtual em Saude, utilizando os descritores Grupos focais e En...

to identify factors which constrain or determine the return to sexual activity in the puerperium. exploratory and descriptive study undertaken in a university hospital in the South of Brazil. Fifteen women who had recently given birth, who received a consultation with the nurse in the period August - October 2011, took part in the study. Data was c...

This integrative review aimed to identify methodological characteristics used in Nursing scientific productions which used the Focus Group as a technique for data collection. The literature survey was undertaken in November 2010, in the databases of the Virtual Health Library, using the descriptors Focus Groups and Nursing. A total of 55 articles w...

Resumo: Objetivou-se conhecer a percepção de enfermeiras de uma Unidade de Clínica Médica sobre os cuidados paliativos. Pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolvida através de entrevista semiestruturada e análise textual discursiva. Emergiram duas categorias: Percepções de enfermeiras acerca dos cuidados paliativos e o modo como as enfermeiras exercem seu fa...