Health Sciences

The objective was to identify the elements the determine the quality of life of teaching nurse, as well as the ones associated with their occupational stress. It is an integrative review made in the database LILACS, SCIELO, BDENF, through the following descriptors “occupational stress”, “quality of life”, “teaching nurse”, “worker’s health”, made in Portuguese, published from March to April of 2017.13 articles were selected. The data lead to the following thematic categories: Occupational risk factors for the stress and defining elements for the quality of life in the professional context.

Social media is a web based technology that connects a large number of families, friends, clients and other large number of virtual communities to share and exchange what they have without any fear and interference to their intimate partners or groups. The purpose of this review is in order to clearly indicate the effects of social media use on human psychological wellbeing and mental health. Reviewing a number of articles has been done to show the pitfalls of social media and other technology on human wellbeing.

This Anatomical variations occur in structures of the body, with the structures of the vascular system inclusive. This study seeks to observe the variations in the termination pattern of popliteal artery and their clinical significances. 24 right and left popliteal fossae of 12 ScottishThiel-embalmed cadavers within the age range of 32 – 110 years were dissected. The observed variations in the termination pattern of popliteal artery were classified using to Kim’s method.

Objective: To analyze nurses' knowledge about nursing diagnosis and intervention for the risk of corneal injury in the Intensive Care Unit. Method: Descriptive, exploratory research with a qualitative approach. Setting: Study developed at the Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital of medium and high complexity, located in the metropolitan region of Belém, State of Pará, Brazil, from April to June 2019. The sample consisted of nine nurses.

Objective: To understand the perception of patients with chronic kidney disease on nursing care in a Hemodialysis Clinic of Belém / PA. Methodology: Qualitative research, developed in Renal Disease Clinic and Diagnostic Methods with 10 patients on renal replacement therapy (hemodialysis), whose data collection took place through semi-structured interview, based on the Bardin method. Results and Discussion: The categories that emerged from the study were: Hemodialysis as life expectancy; Difficulties in hemodialysis treatment; Nursing care in the treatment of hemodialysis patients.

This report has aimed to serosurvey Leptospira spp. and Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in two animal hoarding cases in Curitiba, Brazil. Blood samples from 15 dogs and 12 cats were tested, of which 3/15 (20.0%) dogs and 1/12 (8.3%) cat were seropositive to Leptospira spp. and 1/15 (6.6%) dog and 4/12 (33.3%) cats positive to T. gondii. The present report may be the first description of T. gondii and Leptospira spp. antibody status in dog and cat hoarding cases of Brazil.

Enteroparasites comprise a species of organisms that affect the gastrointestinal tract of humans and depending on the degree of pathogenicity may lead to the death of the infected individual. In addition to the most frequent intestinal parasites found in Brazil, there are now reports of the appearance of Urbanorum spp., A new parasite discovered by researcher Francisco Tirado Santamaria, parasitologist at the Universidad Industrial de Santander - Colombia. This parasite is beginning to be reported in the literature by researchers from Brazil.

Introduction: With advancing age women suffer from physiological and morphological changes that may culminate in chronic diseases. Among these changes is menopause, recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affecting both the quality of life and longevity. Objective: evaluate the correlation and to draw the epidemiological profile of risk factors in climacteric women. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological research. The sample consisted of 148 women, divided into age groups, group A consisting of women aged 40 to 49 years and group B women aged 50 to 59 years.

This The Framingham Heart Study is a prospective longitudinal cohort study that began in 1948 with the enrollment of 5209 men. Women who were free of cardiovascular disease and between the ages of 28 and 62 years. As the largest and oldest cohort study ever produced, it has completed 70 years since its first data collection and has contributed in many ways to the scientific and academic community. The data produced by the FSH produced studies that proved the influence of some risk factors to predict the onset of illness, morbidity and mortality.

Waste is something that is not useful, not used, not liked or something that is discarded that comes from human activities and does not happen by itself. Medical waste is any type of waste that contains infectious material or potentially infectious material (WHO 2004). This definition includes waste generated by health facilities such as doctor's offices, hospitals, dental practices, laboratories, medical research facilities, and veterinary clinics (WHO 2015).