Oncology nurses have been identified as a group at risk for stress. This project aimed at identifying stress-generating situations. There was an attempt at identifying stressful situations through the application of a stress evaluation scale (Stressor Scale for Pediatric Oncology Nursing) (Hinds et al, Cancer Nurs. 1990;13:354-360). In the opinion of 35 oncology nurses, 88.57% of whom were women and 73% of whom had more than 24 months of experience, 38 out of the 50 analyzed statements involving work situations were considered stressful in some way. Fifty-four percent of the statements disclosed a medium or high stressor capacity, and 22% were seen as extremely high stressors. These situations were included in the categories "work organization," "relationships among staff members," and "care restrictions." It is reiterated that the set of activities developed by oncology nurses is stressful, and that there is a need for institutional intervention, due to the narrow relation between work environment and care results.
This observational and descriptive study was carried out to validate the nursing diagnoses Sexual Dysfunction and Ineffective Sexuality Pattern and relate the relevance of the defining characteristics validated by experts with their incidence in patients. Validation by experts involved 32 specialists and 20 patients to verify clinical evidence. For the diagnosis Sexual Dysfunction, the experts attributed scores higher than 0.80 to seven defining characteristics; for Ineffective Sexuality Pattern, four characteristics received scores between 0.50 and 0.80. The clinical occurrence of these characteristics for the Sexual Dysfunction diagnosis ranged between 55% and 90% of the sample and, for Ineffective Sexuality Pattern, between 30% and 85% of the sample. The study contributed to the improvement of these diagnoses and to careful consideration on their defining characteristics according to experts and as observed in a given clientele.
O conhecimento do significado atribuído aos construtos de uma profissão possibilita refletir sobre sua influênciapara a mesma. Buscou-se identificar o significado de Processo de Enfermagem para docentes de cursos de Enfermagem.Em pesquisa descritiva, com 18 docentes de cursos de Enfermagem das cidades de Ribeirão Preto, Goiânia e Brasília, foramidentificados os componentes do significado no símbolo, no referente e no pensamento. Os resultados evidenciaram que,predominantemente, os sujeitos empregam similarmente os termos (símbolos) Processo de Enfermagem e Sistematizaçãoda Assistência, embora identifiquem suas fases tal qual proposto na literatura internacional para Processo de Enfermagem(referente); valorizam o seu ensino; não estão alheios aos embates que ocorrem tanto no ensino como na consolidação douso desse processo na assistência de saúde; consideram positivo o resultado do desafio de ensinar esse conteúdo que éindispensável para a profissão (pensamento).
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