Produção tecnológica Brasileira na área de enfermagem: avanços e desafios

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the patents registered in the nursing area, since these patents may be used as an indicator of the technological development in the area. It presents and discusses national technological productions, tracked through the "nursing" keyword, patented in the period from 1990-2009. This is a retrospective documental research, using, as a source, data from the National Industrial Property Institute (INPI). The information gathered is discussed in relation to the appropriation of the technologies, the incentive to develop them and register them as a source of knowledge in the nursing field, aiming the practice of care. Light and light hard technology productions are increasing in the nursing field. However, these are not registered and patented. The technological advance in the nursing field is emergent and needs policies for its development.

Learning through research: from teaching science to the sphere of nursing care

“…In addition to the repercussions already mentioned, the fragmentation of knowledge makes it difficult for students and nurses to think and be entrepreneurs and develop patents. 4,5,19 Therefore, we believe that the connections between research and nurses' care practices can reflect their training processes, especially in terms of the development of a scientific spirit, which is encouraged by a non-linear approach to the teaching of research. For this reason, this phenomenon is analogous to the dynamics of fractals, 20:601 namely: geometric structures, the pattern of which is replicated indefinitely in diverse scales, "generating complex figures that preserve in each of its parts the characteristics of the whole.…”

“…3 To advance in the sciences and obtain social valorization, nurses have developed competencies that adjust to the contemporary needs of health systems, among which are the scientific empowerment to ground practice. 4,5 Nonetheless, because these are complex systems, they are permeated with dynamic movements of evolution, which, in principle, sustain the importance of the teaching of science during formal education. 6 In this context, the teaching system for the development of science requires abilities to adapt to humankind's global challenges in order to enable linking strategies that favor connecting the results of research to work processes.…”

“…13 The problems that permeate the teaching of research are global and of a multidimensional nature. 3,5 Therefore, one has to know the conditions for which and/ or strategies with which nurses are preparing themselves to deal with the dynamic systems of the health system and of the job market, which includes the abilities to create, innovate and socially engage based on scientific frameworks.…”

Tecnologias não convencionais de coleta de dados em dissertações e teses brasileiras

“…Thus, innovation becomes an essential condition, especially in modern times characterized by constant technological evolution, understood in an expanded concept, not as just machines and equipment, but as knowledge and human interactions that are constantly evolving, bringing new demands and requirements to research. Thus, in addition to the consumption of new technologies, it is believed that nursing must create and generate innovations, stimulating their testing in a systematic manner by scientific research (10) . Documental research showed to be an area that needs to be driven in Nursing: the incorporation of non-conventional technologies of data collection in their scientific investigations.…”

Tecnologias aplicadas � seguran�a do paciente: uma revis�o bibliom�trica

“…Tal ideia foi evidenciada por um estudo realizado no Canadá, o qual afirma que a implementação das tecnologias consiste em uma medida para melhorar a qualidade dos serviços de saúde a fim de reduzir os danos ao paciente e favorecer a segurança no cuidado prestado, com melhora no desempenho dos profissionais que atuam nas instituições de saúde (4) . Em uma pesquisa documental, autores (5) demonstram que a maioria das produções tecnológicas registradas na área da saúde é voltada à prática do cuidado. Destas, merecem destaque as invenções relacionadas à higiene e assepsia (36% dos estudos analisados) e à administração de medicamentos (28% dos estudos).…”