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Objective: to understand the care for the frail elderly provided by family-related inpatient caregivers, as well as their interaction with the Family Health Strategy, from the perspective of caregivers. Method: exploratory-descriptive, qualitative study conducted with 17 informal family-related caregivers of frail elderly from a Family Health Strategy in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data collected between September/2019 and February/2020, through an interview with semi-structured script and questionnaire. Content analysis was performed, thematic type. Results: most caregivers were women, 26-79 years old, white and brown, married and low schooling. Effective communication between the health team and the family/elderly caregiver, to the detriment of high turnover of professionals of the Family Health Strategy, excessive demand for functions and lack of training and technical ability of the caregiver. Final thoughts: care for the frail elderly belonged to the female universe and aroused a mixture of feelings. Interaction between caregivers and family health strategy was generally mediated by the Community Health Agent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to identify the difficulties in addressing palliative care and terminality in the perception of Nursing and Medical students from a public university. Method: this is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, whose data collection was carried out between September 2019 and January 2020, through semi-structured interviews. Results: two main thematic categories emerged: Challenges of communication in palliative care and Unpreparedness to deal with dying and death. Final thoughts: Nursing and Medical students present difficulties related to communication in palliative care and end-of-life situations. This unpreparedness was also present in dealing with death, human suffering and moral conflicts arising from religious beliefs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand the family perception on the experience of emergency care to one of its members. Method: descriptive study of qualitative nature, carried out in three municipalities in Southern Brazil. Data were collected in June 2015 through semi-structured interviews, held in the home of 16 individuals who accompanied their relatives in the emergency unit. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and submitted to thematic Content Analysis. Results: the families revealed intense suffering during the emergency care with the family member. The fast and effective care, the presence of effective communication and the possibility to monitor the assistance were perceived by the family, when present, as care qualifiers and, when absent, as disqualifiers. Conclusion: the family life during the emergency care has been characterized by intense suffering, which is directly influenced by how health professionals receive and meet the patient and his/her family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand the nurse's view on the use of the Manchester protocol and on the user population in the risk assessment of an Emergency Care Unit (ECU). Method: qualitative case study based on Comprehensive Sociology of Daily Life; open interviews were carried out with 12 nurses who perform the risk assessment. Results: there was a reversal of flow of users between the basic network and urgency/emergency services resulting in overcrowding in the ECU and work overload due to lack of information and effective communication in the Health System (publicprivate) to make users aware of the real function of the urgency/emergency service. We also identified flaws in the management of the ECU. Conclusion: despite the challenges to perform risk assessment as a welcoming and equanimous strategy to meet the demand, the nurses believed that the Manchester protocol has brought safety to the practice and quality to the care provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cancer is a disease of high incidence that brings psychosocial changes in people's lives. With the theoretical perspective of Symbolic Interactionism, this qualitative study aims to analyze the perceptions and the feelings of women with breast cancer. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews with thirteen women diagnosed with breast cancer who perform treatment at an oncology department in a municipality of São Paulo. Content Analysis assumptions were used for data organization and interpretation. The results show that the cancer is perceived sometimes as a death sentence and sometimes as a disease that can be cured. It is concluded that the feelings should be taken into consideration by the health professionals during the healthcare practices directed to women with breast cancer, based on ethical values and principles of beneficence, autonomy and justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]