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Objective: to identify the patient safety strategies adopted by the multidisciplinary team in high-risk pregnancy. Method: descriptive, qualitative study conducted with the multidisciplinary team responsible for specialized care for high-risk pregnancy in a city in southern Brazil. The interviews took place in March 2020 and the results were grouped into thematic categories. Results: two themes were highlighted: safety in embracement and flow of care to high-risk pregnant women, represented by the role of primary and secondary care in assistance to pregnant women, early identification of risk factors and/or aggravations to pregnancy and guidelines for the safety of high-risk pregnant women, identifying the need for individualized multiprofessional care to the needs of pregnant women. Conclusion: strategies for the safety of high-risk pregnant women go beyond safety protocols and denote the need to adapt to the context of secondary care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand the process of handover of nurses in Adult Intensive Care Units. Method: study with a qualitative approach, whose data collection was performed between October and December 2020, through nonparticipant observation and semi-structured interview conducted in five intensive care units of a public hospital in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Results: two main categories emerged: Praxis of the handover to improve care and barriers that impair communication during the handover. It was possible to understand the process of shift, based on the looks of intensive nurses, which have structural elements for effective communication that reverberate in the continuity of care. Final considerations: in the process of handover of nurses, structural and environmental conditions, such as parallel conversations, dispersion, lack of attention, interruptions, anticipated egress and noise were characterized as barriers that caused failures and interfered in the communication process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]