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This investigation assessed the prevalence of anxiety disorder associated with quality of life in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis. This is a cross-sectional study, carried out in the state of Ceará, northeastern Brazil, with a sample of 192 participants. The following instruments were used in the interviews: sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire, Kidney Disease and Quality of Life Short-Form (KDQOL-SFTM) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Data collection took place in 2019. All analyses were performed using the SPSS software.

Objetivo: identificar o perfil cronobiológico de enfermeiros atuantes em unidades de cuidados críticos nos diferentes turnos de um hospital universitário público. Método: estudo transversal, realizado no Sul do Brasil, em agosto a outubro de 2020, com enfermeiros do Pronto Socorro e Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Adulto, totalizando 55 profissionais. Foram coletados dados de caracterização laboral e sociodemográfica e avaliado perfil cronobiológico com o Questionário Cronobiológico de Hornee e Osteberg.

O ceratocone é a forma mais comum de ectasiacorneana, condiçãocrônica que acomete indivíduos jovens. Tem alta incidência e prevalência. Ocasiona grande impacto funcional, emocional e social a esses sujeitos. Objetivo: avaliar a qualidade de vida de pacientes com ceratocone. Método: utilizado protocolo de pesquisa específico – KeratoconusOutcomesResearchQuestionnaire (KORQ) – traduzido e validado, contendo 18 perguntas de avaliação funcional e 11 de sintomas, em pacientes com diagnóstico de ceratocone atendidos no Hospital UniversitárioBettina Ferro de Souza (HUBFS).

At the end of 2019 until today, we live with the challenge faced by the Coronavirus pandemic. Added to this, many of the patients affected with this disease end up acquiring another disease called Mechanical Ventilation-Associated Pneumonia (VAP), still within the hospital environment, characterizing a Nosocomial Infection (NI), which makes the treatment for COVID-19 still more challenging.

Background: Tennis elbow (TE) is a most common condition of the upper limb that is happens due to powerful grip and continues repetitive movements in the wrist joint throughout various daily activities. Although a number of managing approaches have discussed about of the techniques used to decrease pain and increase elbow and wrist movements, the use of new methods remains a vigorous preference to reach the maximum degree of improvement and comprehensive recovery.

A participação do enfermeiro como pesquisador é um tema pouco discutido pela enfermagem, por se tratar de um universo diferente da assistência de enfermagem habitual. Assim, este estudo teve o objetivo de conhecer a atuação do enfermeiro na pesquisa clínica em saúde. Realizou-se um estudo qualitativo com nove enfermeiros pesquisadores e que foram identificados através da técnica bola de neve. A coleta dos dados ocorreu através de entrevistas e para a análise utilizou-se a técnica de análise de conteúdo. Verificou-se que o cotidiano do enfermeiro em pesquisa clínica exige planejamento.

Introdução: A COVID-19 é uma doença infectocontagiosa que causa inúmeras complicações a saúde do indivíduo acometido, dentre as quais a dor tem sido reportada como uma das principais causas de impacto físico e mental. Objetivo: Verificar a prevalência, intensidade e fatores associados à dor em indivíduos acometidos pela COVID-19. Metodologia: Estudo transversal realizado com 1042 indivíduos acometidos pela Covid-19, cujos mesmos responderam a um questionário estruturado por meio da Plataforma Google Forms.

Bearing in mind that reverse logistics has been present in several segments since the 40s of the twentieth century, which at the present moment there is a great social charge for the preservation and restoration of the environment, with reverse logistics being a device for business performance on this way of pursuing sustainability.

Objective: to map the instruments that assess the knowledge of the nursing team in the management of pressure injuries. Method: Integrative review conducted in the indexed databases LILACS/BVS, Pubmed, Scopus, CINAHL, Embase and Web of Science from 2009 to June 2020, following the recommendations of the PRISMA tool. Results: 22 studies were selected. The objects of the studies were similar, since they portrayed the knowledge of the nursing team about pressure injuries and the deficit of this knowledge.

Absenteeism is a strategic indicator for workforce management. In the hospital environment, unhealthy factors were potentiated in 2020, due to actions to face the pandemic by COVID-19. This article aimed to analyze the behavior of the absenteeism rate motivated by sick leave in the period 2019-2021, in two public hospitals in the State of Minas Gerais-Brazil. The method used was the descriptive time series, with quantitative analysis of institutional records. Nonparametric statistical tests were performed to compare annual rates.