Infections in the hospital environment are a serious problem in the intensive care unit environments. Mechanical ventilation-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the second most frequent infection in American and European Intensive Care Units (ICUs). This project aimed to outline the clinicalepidemiological profile of patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit. It is descriptive, documentary, with a quantitative approach. Data were collected using a specific form, directly from the patients' medical records and, afterwards, underwent a quantitative analysis process. Information was collected from 17 patients, through their medical records, who developed VAP in an Intensive Care Unit from January to December 2018, with two patients developing the infection twice. Thus, 100% of patients who developed VAP in the period were surveyed. The incidence density of VAP during the period in the studied unit was 5.6 cases for every 1000 mechanical ventilators / day. At the outcome of the clinical course of patients hospitalized with VAP, the mortality rate was 41% due to VAP, however, 24% of the patients died of other complications, 35% were successful in the treatment and management of VAP. Knowledge about these data is of great importance in the creation of assessment instruments in nursing care, gaining gains in the evolution of the clinical condition of patients, providing nurses with better planning of their health care actions.
In view of the advancement of technology, the behavior of society has diversified, consequently affecting the educational process, with this change, teaching today is not limited to training academics, but encourages them to develop solutions to the problems encountered and new knowledge. University teaching presents itself as an important subject at a time of transformation in nursing education characterized by both curricular and methodological changes. Therefore, this article aimed to point out practices and challenges faced by students and professors with the teaching-learning process in higher education. A descriptive literature review, with a qualitative approach, the review of articles through exploratory bibliographic research was used as a method to achieve the objective of this study, allowing the inclusion of experimental studies that are related to the proposed theme for a better understanding of the analyzed content. Data from the researched literature demonstrate that interdisciplinarity can help in the dissociation of the knowledge produced and guide the production of a new order of knowledge, constituting a necessary condition for improving the quality of higher education focused on nursing.
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