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PopSaude (Pop Health): tips for health and wellness on television - a preview note

PopSaude (Pop Health) is a regular television broadcast that is intended to air a finite number of episodes related to health and wellness. The PopSaude content is factual related to women health, African-Brazilian health, physical activities and exercises and health nutrition.

Mapping of the occupational risks at clinical and surgical nursing units - a preview note

Qualitative research that has as study object the occupational risk the one that the professionals of nursing are submitted in the exercise of its activities in the clinic infirmaries and surgery of the University Hospital Antonio Pedro. Objectives: To identify the group and the existing factors of risk in the clinic infirmaries and surgery of the HUAP, To correlate the risks and the damages already occurred in the health of the nursing worker and To argue measured, for priorities, of the risks to be eliminated and/or attenuated. It will be used research-action as method, therefore if it intends through the quarrel of the workers on the proper conditions of work and with the socialization of the experiences, that each one, in particular, discover the social dimension of the proper problems. For this process - quarrel and socialization - it is that the purely individual dimension of the work condition is change into a collective question, that all compromises the group in the brainstorming. One expects with the mapping of the existing risks in the units to have conditions to adjust the limitations of the workers to the exercise of its activities in the hospital, to become the hospital an area more insurance for the health of the worker and to offer subsidies to the institution for one politics of human resources more come back to the occupational health.

Mapping of the occupational risks at clinical and surgical nursing units - a preview note

Qualitative research that has as study object the occupational risk the one that the professionals of nursing are submitted in the exercise of its activities in the clinic infirmaries and surgery of the University Hospital Antonio Pedro. Objectives: To identify the group and the existing factors of risk in the clinic infirmaries and surgery of the HUAP, To correlate the risks and the damages already occurred in the health of the nursing worker and To argue measured, for priorities, of the risks to be eliminated and/or attenuated. It will be used research-action as method, therefore if it intends through the quarrel of the workers on the proper conditions of work and with the socialization of the experiences, that each one, in particular, discover the social dimension of the proper problems. For this process - quarrel and socialization - it is that the purely individual dimension of the work condition is change into a collective question, that all compromises the group in the brainstorming. One expects with the mapping of the existing risks in the units to have conditions to adjust the limitations of the workers to the exercise of its activities in the hospital, to become the hospital an area more insurance for the health of the worker and to offer subsidies to the institution for one politics of human resources more come back to the occupational health.

Risk assessment scales for pressure ulcer in intensive care patients - a preview note

This quasi-experimental study will compare the scales of Braden and Cubbin & Jackson in patients of intensive therapy verifying their sensibility and specificity to prevent decubit ulcer.

PopSaude (Pop Health): tips for health and wellness on television - a preview note

PopSaude (Pop Health) is a regular television broadcast that is intended to air a finite number of episodes related to health and wellness. The PopSaude content is factual related to women health, African-Brazilian health, physical activities and exercises and health nutrition.

Strategic plan for developing nursing professional standards: preview note

Problem: At the University Hospital of the University of Rio de Janeiro State (HUPE/UERJ),the Nursing Coordination analysed the social context and the stakeholders of health assistence, and identified a problem to address: a change shift in the focus from the client and student to the institution itself. Objective: To achieve the vision of a 24/7 nursing care, centered in the client and based on scientifc evidence, a strategic plan was developed to establish nursing professional standards. Method: As an instrument of social management, an Strategic Project represents the process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, and evaluation of the nursing managers to improve the quality of care at HUPE/UERJ.Expected Outcome: a hospital database related to client outcomes related to nursing care.