Suchergebnisse

Objective: To know the practices developed for users with arterial hypertension. Method: A descriptive-exploratory research, with qualitative approach realized in people with arterial hypertension living in the coverage area of a Family Health Unit of a city in southern Brazil. The data collection occurred during the months of February and March 2011 through semi-structured interviews. To analyze the data was used the thematic analysis. Results: From data analysis emerged the following categories: care with food; medication care, care with physical activities; care in maintaining emotional balance; popular care. Conclusion: The study highlights the importance to know the care developed for hypertensive users in order to better lead the health actions in this public, valuing their practices and paying attention to the difficulties experienced for them in the realization of such care.

Objective: characterizing the scientific production related to care, nursing and culture in Brazilian journals over the past 26 years. Method: this is an integrative literature review. Data collection occurred in January 2013, on the data basis of Latin American Literature and Caribbean Health Sciences, Scientific Electronic Library Online and International Literature on Health Sciences. Results: there has been an understanding that we are sociocultural beings, whose behavior is built individually, and as uninterrupted and unfinished process, since human relationships are permanently rebuilt. Conclusion: the cultural interpretation of events in the health field allows us to understand their meaning and to what they relate, so that enables more meaningful qualitative experience of nursing practice for both nurses, as for the subjects under their care.

Objective: To identify the knowledge of nursing students on the use of medicinal plants as a complementary therapy to health care. Methods: Qualitative research conducted through semi structured interviews with eight nursing students from a Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in October 2012. In thematic content analysis, three categories emerged: "I learned from my family", "I acknowledge the importance of medicinal plants" and "I use plants at home, but do not recommend its use in the practical field". Results: The knowledge of students regarding the use of medicinal plants is of popular source. Insecurity has been observed amongst undergraduates as to their agency as future professionals orienting in the guidelines regarding the use of medicinal plants, pointing to the need of advances in the nursing education. Conclusion: Highlights the need to review the nursing syllabuses in order to contemplate the subject, as a mean of promoting health and comprehensive care.

O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever as funções da rede social junto à família, no cuidado à pessoa com estomia de eliminação. Pesquisa qualitativa e descritiva realizada no primeiro semestre de 2013, no domicílio de sete famílias de pessoas com estomias de eliminação, em um município do interior do Rio Grande do Sul, totalizando 16 participantes, o que se deu por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e de observação simples registrada em diário de campo. Utilizou-se a análise de conteúdo temática, sendo identificadas três categorias: "A minha família ia buscar para mim": ajuda material e de serviços; "Tu és normal, tu vais aprender a conviver com a estomia": apoio emocional e companhia social; "Eu não sabia cortar e colocar a bolsa": guia cognitivo e de conselhos. Como funções da rede social verificou-se: a ajuda material e de serviço, a companhia social, o apoio emocional e os guias cognitivo e de conselhos. A rede social investigada exercia suas funções interligadas ao desenvolvimento dos cuidados realizados diariamente pela família à pessoa com estomia de eliminação.

Objective: Learning the use of medicinal plants by people with venous ulcers accompanied in an
outpatient of a public hospital of the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Method: It is qualitative
and descriptive study, in which 14 people with venous ulcers were interviewed between January and
February 2013. The data were treated according to the content analysis. Results: The categories
elaborated were: Medicinal plants used for the care of venous ulcers; Learning in care with medicinal
plants; Forms for use of medicinal plants in the care for venous ulcer. Conclusion: The plants are used as
tea or directly into the lesion. This care precedes the search to the health services or occurred as a
complement form of professional practices. It was important for nursing identifying the influence of this
popular knowledge in the care for people with venous ulcers.