Past Issue

Avaliação manovacuométrica em pacientes no pós-operatório de cirurgia abdominal eletiva

As cirurgias na região toracoabdominal têm se destacado entre os procedimentos cirúrgicos, estas podem agravas as funções respiratórias. O artigo objetivou avaliar o impacto das cirurgias abdominais na musculatura respiratória no pós-cirúrgico. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, analítico e de abordagem quantitativa, onde avaliaram 30 pacientes, todos estavam internados e foram submetidos a cirurgia abdominal eletiva em um hospital de um município da Bahia. Sendo um projeto secundário, um ensaio clínico randomizado aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da FAINOR.

Curricular internship of nursing training in the family health strategy scenario: Experience report

Objective: to report the experience of a Nursing student during the completion of Supervised Curricular Internship I in the Family Health Strategy scenario. Methodology: This is a descriptive study, of the experience report type, carried out by a student during the Supervised Curricular Internship I. The activities developed were recorded by the student in a field diary during the internship, which was the basis of the elaboration of this experience report.

Deaf patients having difficult accessing health care due to communication issues

Deaf/deaf populations who are primarily American Sign Language (ASL) users have difficulty accessing health care due to communication barriers related to poor sign language resource utilization by health care workers and providers. A lack of communication between deaf patients and health care providers leads to mis-communication, misunderstanding, misdiagnoses, and poor outcomes. Clinical questions for this project are: How can improved communication in health care for the deaf patient improve access, understanding, and outcomes, as compared to poor or inappropriate communication?

Non-verbal communication at nursing admission: perceptions of HIV/AIDS patients

This study aims to identify the not verbal perceptions that pacientes with HIV/Aids do about body expressions in nursing admission. It is a descriptive and transversal study with a qualitative approach. The research was performed with 10 patientsn the Center for Health Care in Infectious Diseases –Casa Dia. Reference in multidisciplinary care in the testing, counseling and treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS, in the city of Belém, Pará. Data analysis was performed through content analysis of Bardin.

Policies and practices of people management in Brazil: a bibliographic analysis between the years 2008 to 2017

People Management has assumed a greater role as a competitive differential in the structures of organizations trying to create a management that has its employees as the main actor. A bibliographic review was carried out based on the publications on policies and practices of people management. The survey and bibliographical analysis was carried out through the search tool of the Brazilian Portal of Periodicals of CAPES - Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel.

Multicriteria decision tool to assist in decisionmaking of housing envelop solutions and heating water system

Nowadays it is relevant to improve the thermal-energy performance in housing envelopes and heating water systems, assuming or not an acceptable increase in costs. This issue is due to the growth of electricity demand expected in the residential sector for the next two decades. The objective of this research was to develop a multicriteria decision tool to assist in decision making about housing envelope solutions and heating water system during the initial stages of the building venture.

Design thinking in the development of new products: a case study

The goal of this study is to understand how the Design Thinking tool helps the identification of opportunities, creation and development of new products or services developed by academics. Therefore, the stages of identification, inspiration, ideation and implementation of the development of products and services were studied through observation, interviews and questionnaires applied to the teams of academics who developed a product as a curricular activity to be presented at the Entrepreneur Fair, which happens every year.

Design and development of a collapsible four valve spring compressor

This study aims todesign and developa Collapsible Four Valve Spring Compressorand assess its functionality in terms ofdesign, construction and operating performance. The study employed a descriptive - development design, weighted mean as the statistical tool, questionnaire and actual observation to gather data. Based on the findings of the assessment, the researcher concluded that the Collapsible Four Valve Spring Compressorishighly functional in terms of design, construction and operating performance.

Electronic biomedical dynamometer developed with metalon structure for measurement, analysis and recording of gripping force information

The developed electronic biomedical dynamometer was able to measure palmar grip strengths and varying forces over time produced by grip forces ranging from 5 N to 1000 N. This dynamometer has a very affordable mechanical structure, compact signal conditioning circuit and microcomputer. The mechanical structure consists of a dynamic support developed in Metalon and a static support also developed in Metalon.