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This study aimed to know the care provided by the family member to the child admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). This is a descriptive and exploratory research with a qualitative approach, developed in a PICU of a hospital in the south of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. Fifteen family caregivers participated. The collection took place between December 2017 and January 2018, through a semistructured interview that occurred after the approval of the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), under the opinion n 2,416,925. The data were interpreted according to the thematic content analysis. Two categories were elaborated: Care provided by family members within a PICU; Relationship established by the health team of the PICU with the family caregiver and the child. The family offers the child a care based on love, affection and warmth, exposed when performing actions such as changing diapers, assisting in bathing and dressing. Likewise, the care received by the family members by the health team proved to be important to facilitate the process of adaptation to the situation lived and the continuity of the care of the family member to the child. In this sense, it can be seen that health professionals, especially nursing, may be conducting a therapeutic listening in their daily care, with a view to effective communication in which both speak the same language, valuing the meanings and meanings attributed by the family to this experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To know the nurses' perception of the factors that influence the safe administration of medications in the work context of the General University Hospital of Elda (Alicante), Spain. Method: This is a qualitative phenomenological study through interviews semi-structured in which 15 nurses chosen by deliberate sampling participated. Results: The participants expressed concern about the performance of the medication administration procedures, which made it possible to perceive safety as the greatest concern in the study unit. A main category called "knowing" was established, which encompasses all the reflections about the nurse's performance during the medication administration process. The following subcategories are developed from this main category: work overload, insufficient training, distractions, and communication and information failures. Conclusion: Knowing the nurses' perception of the factors that influence the safe administration of medications could facilitate the use of instruments to standardize and reduce variability in the safe administration of medications. As well as improving conditions in work environments and not favoring social, personal and professional stigmatization due to care error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To identify the perception of the nursing team about the motivational factors in the work environment. Methods: An exploratory study with a qualitative approach, carried out from January to February, 2015, in the pediatrics sector of a reference hospital of medium complexity, with 12 nursing technicians and nine nurses. The data collection was based on interviews guided by a semi-structured instrument and the data collected were analyzed according to Bardin. Results: The main factors that could contribute to the motivation of the nursing team were: sufficient supply of materials; motivational meetings; standardization of conduits and elaboration of assistance protocols; training courses and training; increased communication and feedback among the team of activities performed. The factors that discouraged them were: lack of recognition of the profession, lack of material, poor remuneration, excessive workload, high number of patients and nonconstructive criticism. Conclusions: The results identified could contribute with nursing managers to the planning of strategies that aim to increase the motivation in the professionals of the team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses are in a key position to improve the quality of healthcare through patient safety interventions and strategies. However, there is a general misunderstanding of the effects of the numerous and complex work environment factors on patient safety. This qualitative study aims to explore nurses' perceptions of patient safety aspects in an emergency setting. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 13 Registered Nurses from an emergency ward in a large general hospital located in northeastern Brazil. Conventional content analysis in which analysis is gained without imposing preconceived categories was used to analyze the collected data. The findings were clustered in three main categories: Barriers and facilitators for the adoption of patient safety practices, Training on patient safety issues, and Nursing role on the quality of patient safety. Nurses reported that the factors influencing patient safety include: lack of resources, hospital overcrowding, excessive workload, lack of training, and ineffective communication. Our results suggest that patient safety in the emergency wards could be improved by developing and reinforcing a safety culture and by providing the necessary infrastructure and support mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migrants and their partners have been incorporated into institutional discourses of health as “subjects at risk” against Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), however, the inclusion of this specific population in communication and risk management of STIs has been ambiguous in the Mexican context. The objective of this approach was explore sexual and reproductive practices of self-care they take in their everyday women “partner of migrant” and the relationship of these measures with communication and risk management conducted by health services. It was a qualitative approach with 20 women “partner of migrants” located by the health services, the information was gathered through in-depth interviews that focused on the areas of “risk perception” and “sexual and reproductive self-care”. We found that most women do not recognize vulnerable to STIs and risk perception is not decisive in the confrontation about the threat to develop, the patriarchal imaginary prevailing in them, their partners and health workers rejecting the use of prevention and early detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intensive care unit (ICU) is an environment in which the technique is more aspects of care. In this perspective, it is important to use communication in nursing, awakening a bond of trust between family and professional. Given this reality aimed to analyze the communication between the nursing staff and the relatives of ICU patients. The descriptive is qualitative approach in the ICU of a teaching hospital. Participants were thirty families of ICU patients. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews in September 2011 and analyzed using content analysis. It was found that family members do not receive nursing guidelines on the environment and health of the patient, and also does not provide time to interact during visits. Thereby the emerging need to encourage the training of these professionals to the conscious use of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Good communication between health professionals is recognized as essential for proper patient care, but many authors claim that it remains one of the unfinished business of healthcare organizations. Objectives: To explore the expectations and ideas nurses have about interprofessional communication in an intensive care unit in a district hospital and establish its relationship to cultural, organizational and personal. Material and methods: This is a descriptive qualitative methodology, using data collection in-depth semi-structured interviews. Results: After content analysis identified two categories: expressions of the reality of the communicative interactions between professionals and professional expectations and their proposals for improvement. Conclusions and Discussion: Each health profession has a different culture that makes each one has its own values and disciplinary point of view of the needs of the patient but also different styles of communication. It is important to recognize that effective communication is complex and multifactorial, but the leaders should take the concern and interest expressed by professionals to promote iniciatives for the exchange and collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]