Phytotherapy in primary care: study with nurse professionals

Objective: Investigating the understanding of nurses about Phytotherapy and checking the strategies needed for consolidating this practice in Primary Care. Methods: This is an exploratory research, with qualitative approach, conducted with 10 nurses in Family Health units of the District IV, in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. Data were collected in interviews recorded during the month of April 2015 and qualitatively processed through the content analysis technique. Results: The categories emerged from the analysis were: Phytotherapy in Primary Care: understanding of nurses; and Strategies needed for consolidating Phytotherapy in Primary Care. These categories have proved the lack of understanding of nurses about Phytotherapy and its policies, as well as strategies needed for consolidating this in Primary Care. Conclusion: Accordingly, it is hoped that this study will enable new reflections and broader investigation about the use of Phytotherapy in the context of Primary Care

Palliative care and bioethics: study with assistance nurses

Objective: The objective was to investigate the ethical observances used by nurses assisting the patient without possibilities of cure. Methods: Exploratory research, qualitative in nature, performed with 28 nurses of a public hospital, located in the city of João Pessoa/PB. The data were collected through a questionnaire, from August to October 2012 and subjected to content analysis technique. Results: The categories identified were: Palliative Care: principles of Bioethics to the patient without possibilities of cure and privacy and professional secrecy under the palliative care. Such categories indicated that the professionals are valuing the principles of Bioethics, as well as the privacy and the professional secrecy, using them as a strategy to assist the care to the patient without possibilities of cure. Conclusion: This study is expected to subsidize new investigations, because they are still incipient the research addressing bioethics in patient assistance in palliative care

Nursing interventions for fall prevention in hospitalized aged people: integrative review

Objective: to identify nursing interventions for fall prevention in hospitalized aged people. Methods: integrative review developed on the Web of Science, MEDLINE/PubMed, SCOPUS, CINAHL and LILACS databases using the PICo strategy with controlled descriptors and their combinations using the Boolean operators AND and OR. Studies addressing interventions to prevent falls in aged people in the hospital setting were included, without geographical or language limitation, from 2004 with the creation of The World Alliance for Patient Safety. Three reviewers worked on the citations, using EndNote basic and Rayyan, reaching a final sample of 20 studies. Results: 202 nursing interventions were identified for fall prevention in hospitalized aged people, categorized into six domains of the Nursing Interventions Classification (Physiological: basic; Physiological: complex; Behavioral; Safety; Family; Health Systems). Conclusion: nursing interventions were identified for the prevention of falls in hospitalized aged people, which provides subsidies for the construction of care protocols and improvements in care. Contributions to practice: the results allow nurses to prevent the occurrence of falls, putting into practice consistent scientific findings from the planning of actions to the execution and reassessment of results with the team