Patient safety is a worldwide problem that affects countries in all levels of development, given the risk of damages, injuries or death due to unsafe health care provision in the surgical context. This study aimed to understand the perception of nurses about patient safety in the operating room context. Descriptive and exploratory study conducted in 50 moments of participant observation and 6 semistructured interviews with nurses from the central operating room in a Public Hospital of the Sotavento Islands, Praia, Cape Verde. For data interpretation, we applied content analysis techniques. The ethical principles were followed. The explanatory cultural identity of the social processes in that context revealed unfavorable relation to patient safety as regards the aspects of surgical hand scrubbing with 2-to 5-minute scrub with chlorhexidine, use of surgical safety checklist, verifying sterilization indicators, conflict management and communication among the interdisciplinary team, people as centrality of care. Both professionals in the operating room and institutions should consider standards, supervisions, audits, and protocols as strong points for patient safety in the operating room context.
Adolescent motherhood as a cultural phenomenon represents an excellent test for human understanding, when studied through a network of meanings. This study aimed to identify the semantics regularity used by adolescents in pregnancy-childbirth cycle about motherhood at this stage of life. Descriptive study with 317 free word association tests with adolescents in pregnancy-childbirth cycle, analyzed through descriptive statistics and correspondence factor analysis. Ethical precepts were followed. Signs assumed principles with multiple, but complementary, characteristics according to how participants signified them, identifying with representational bias. The word was the unit for apprehending the content in context. The educational model of motherhood at this stage of life was structured as positive, neutral, or negative. Feelings of happiness and affection permeated evocations of being a mother, giving the idea of virtue with motherhood. In contradiction, it was anchored by the difficulty of developing this role in adolescence. Thus, there is urgent need for proper monitoring of adolescents, from prenatal to postpartum, since it carries knowledge that, when included in everyday life, provides congruent care in identity construction of being an adolescent or expectant mother.
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