2004
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-11692004000400011
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Os postulados de Nightingale e Semmelweis: poder/vital e prevenção/contágio como estratégias para a evitabilidade das infecções

Abstract: This qualitative research used observation as a data collection technique, guided by an instrument elaborated on the basis of Nightingale and Semmelweis' postulates: vital power/life and prevention/contagion. A brief history of infection control is offered from the focus of prevention/contagion. The postulate vital power/life is discussed, presenting the nursing care components deriving from it with a view to care development. This study recommends that both postulates--vital power/life and prevention/contagio… Show more

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“…The role of nursing staff for this purpose should be focused on strengthening this force, leading them to recover from the disease. 4,7 While "care", nursing should be used in unique and humanized forms of strategies, working "together for humans, aiming at intensifying its vital power and awakening or strengthening the need to face the opponent, or hospital infection. " 4 Its applicability was analyzed through observations in interpersonal relationships, comfort, welfare and conditions offered by the environment and by the nursing staff in hospitals, particularly maternity clinics, which showed in their care, postpartum women who developed puerperal infection and subsequent maternal death.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The role of nursing staff for this purpose should be focused on strengthening this force, leading them to recover from the disease. 4,7 While "care", nursing should be used in unique and humanized forms of strategies, working "together for humans, aiming at intensifying its vital power and awakening or strengthening the need to face the opponent, or hospital infection. " 4 Its applicability was analyzed through observations in interpersonal relationships, comfort, welfare and conditions offered by the environment and by the nursing staff in hospitals, particularly maternity clinics, which showed in their care, postpartum women who developed puerperal infection and subsequent maternal death.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…4 The participation of nursing as a positive factor in the vital power was developed with the need for care professionalization, that following the approach and recognition given by Florence Nightingale, should be performed by qualified professionals with training and knowledge required, and this nursing care should "promote life, the life potential, the welfare of human beings in their individuality, complexity and comprehensiveness. " 2,6 Therefore, there is a reflexive articulation about work, discipline and profession, with the conclusion that nursing should be represented by professionals with differential to develop in their practice technically competent actions in any situation of service and run them protectively, while its applicability can then be made in any hospital situation.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Durante a guerra da Criméria no ano de 1854, Florence Nightingale juntamente com outras enfermeiras passaram a usar medidas de higiene com os soldados feridos em campo de batalha, melhorando as condições de tratamento nos hospitais improvisados. (Carraro, 2004;Stanley, 2007).…”
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“…She pioneered the application of Epidemiology and Statistics in the field of health care. In the case of Statistics, she considered it essential to understand social problems and sought to introduce the study of this branch of knowledge to justify her conclusions in the health field, for example, using the graphical illustration to present the results of her research (3) . It is undeniable that her contributions to human health remain relevant and current.…”
Section: Regina Aparecida Garcia De Limamentioning
confidence: 99%