Marta Georgina Oliveira de Góes

Structural elements of critical thinking of nurses in emergency care

The objective of this study was to analyze the structural elements of critical thinking (CT) of nurses in the clinical decision-making process. This exploratory, qualitative study was conducted with 20 emergency care nurses in three hospitals in southern Brazil. Data were collected from April to June 2009, and a validated clinical case was applied from which nurses listed health problems, prescribed care and listed the structural elements of CT. Content analysis resulted in categories used to determine priority structural elements of CT, namely theoretical foundations and practical relationship to clinical decision making; technical and scientific knowledge and clinical experience, thought processes and clinical decision making: clinical reasoning and basis for clinical judgments of nurses: patient assessment and ethics. It was concluded that thinking critically is a skill that enables implementation of a secure and effective nursing care process.

Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem e a publicação continuada: adaptando-se às necessidades da comunidade científica

For 40 years, the Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem (RGE) has adapted its editorial processes to meet the requirements of the scientific community and a commitment to publish research results, providing visibility and transfer of knowledge in different scenarios, with consequent influence on the decision-taking that impact society in social, economic, environmental and health contexts. In this sense, following SciELO Brazil’s guidelines, as of volume 39 (2018), RGE adopted the modality of rolling publishing in line with the growing trend of exclusively online periodicals. This involves publishing in annual volumes, without the number of fascicles; therefore, the articles will be published as they are approved. Authors are currently seeking periodicals that can offer a shorter time between the decision and the publication of articles. Thus, this modality of knowledge transfer that speeds up the process of communication of scientific production allows the results of innovative studies to reach the public more rapidly, as well as subsidizing financial and regulatory bodies regarding the benefits of these studies for society, this being one of the important criteria for granting incentives. For periodical editors, rolling publishing provides characteristics that often cannot be replicated in printed form, such as: avoiding the accumulation of articles which are ready but depend on others for closure of the edition, enabling an increase in the number of articles published per volume, reducing printing costs, among others. Rolling publishing favors the metrics of periodicals by making it possible to reduce the time between submission and publication, as well as demonstrating the impact of productions on the academic environment and the respective periodical, thus attracting researchers.A Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem (RGE) ha 40 anos tem adequado seus processos editoriais em atencao as exigencias da comunidade cientifica, e ao compromisso com a publicacao dos resultados de pesquisa, conferindo visibilidade e translacao do conhecimento em diferentes cenarios (1) ,com consequente influencia na tomada das decisoes que impactam na sociedade nos contextos sociais, economicos, ambientais e de saude .

Profissionalização da editoração de periódicos científicos: desafios da gestão de manuscritos na implantação do ScholarOne Manuscripts

A historia e o presente distinguem a Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem (RGE) como um importante meio de divulgacao e disseminacao do conhecimento na area da Enfermagem e saude no âmbito nacional e internacional. A RGE vem sendo um periodico de vanguarda dentro do atual contexto editorial ha mais de 40 anos ininterruptos, contribuindo com a comunidade cientifica nos diferentes contextos de atuacao da enfermagem.The history and the present days distinguish the Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem (RGE) as an important means of disclosure and dissemination of knowledge in the area of Nursing and Health in the national and international scope. RGE has been a leading journal within the current editorial context for more than 40 years uninterrupted, contributing to the scientific community in different operational contexts of nursing. To that end, RGE’s editorial team has undertaken efforts in order to meet the criteria, politics and procedures for admission and permanence of scientific journals in the SciELO Brasil Collection, according to documents published in 2014 and 2017, which consider three priority actions for national scientific journals: professionalization, internationalization and financial sustainability. Recently, in 2016, RGE migrated its management system of manuscripts from the SEER Electronic System of Journal Editing (SEER Sistema Eletrônico de Editoração de Revistas) editing interface to ScholarOne Manuscripts. With this, the work process of the editorial team had to be reformulated in order to professionalize and qualify the previously consolidated practices. Besides the new tools, the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform has contributed to the professionalization of the editorial team, by standardizing actions and simplifying the procedures of submission and follow-up of the editorial flow for the authors that want to publish their manuscripts in RGE. The authors desire an agile, careful and fair evaluation, adequate editing, fidelity to the text, speed and academic impact with the publication. This set of expectations fundamentally depends on the quality of the article and of the editorial processes of the journals by means of computerized systems, pre-analysis, process of peer review, and quality of editing. The ScholarOne Manuscripts interface is an electronic editing platform of scientific journals by Thomson Reuters and is associated with big publishers and scientific databases, being an international platform that standardizes the editing processes among the journals with a high impact factor. Authors are allowed to follow all processing and editing steps of the manuscript, according to the phases inherent to the editorial flow. Moreover, there was an expansion of the visibility and circulation of RGE among the prominent journals, strengthening the engagement with the movement of free access, continuous flow and electronic format. The appropriation of the new criteria by the editorial team for utilization of the ScholarOne Manuscripts, aiming at mediating the relationship of the authors and ad hoc reviewers with the new interface technology, has required investments for improvement in all steps of the editorial flow, from the processes of submission, receipt, pre-analysis, review, evaluation, editing, and layout, to the publication of the scientific articles submitted. Professionalizing the publication of scientific journals: challenges of manuscript management in the implementation of ScholarOne Manuscripts

Translação do conhecimento: um desafio para prática de enfermagem

Constant transformations in the world resulting from social, political and economic determinants, among others, have caused changes in the lifestyle and consequent health conditions of different populations. These aspects have likewise required areas of health in the domestic and international realm to create specific technologies aimed at providing effective health care. The production of this knowledge has been continuous and rapid, occurring at the same pace as the need emerges to provide health care to the population in different levels and contexts, a fact that has led to it being studied. Nursing, as a social and humanistic discipline, where its being, knowing and doing is structured within the care process, is interrelated with the phenomena of the experienced world in which the other cohabits and, in light of these transformations, identifies needs to adapt its ways of providing care. This is a condition in which movements are revealed, in the pursuit of specific knowledge through studies and research based on questions raised and the search for answers to phenomena in the practice of nursing. These include the construction of conceptual theoretical models to guide this “doing” process, as well as the appropriation of knowledge from other disciplines to enhance the care given. Research production occurs par excellence in research groups organized according to thematic pillars or lines of research, based on gaps in health knowledge. These are the core of graduate studies programs in nursing that, in recent decades, have increased significantly at the national level and are determinants for greater scientific production. It is believed that some of these studies are absorbed in practice, but more robust designs are needed to put these results into practice, with consequent benefits for health teams, patients and family members. This, however, among other aspects, are rarely part of the study planning process, which would give a translational perspective to nursing research. This approach, also found in other disciplines, has caused apprehension among various researchers concerned about the precarious incorporation of research findings in the field of health, since there could be significant changes in social indicators and morbidity and mortality rates by doing so. Knowledge Translation is characterized by putting these results into practice. Knowledge Translation (KT) is defined as dynamic interactive process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethics in knowledge to promote health and provide health services and products more effectively, in order to strengthen the health system. For KT to be a reality in health practices, certain obstacles also need to be overcome, such as: familiarization with knowledge translation, identification of relevant research problems, expansion of the partnership between researchers and users Knowledge translation: a challenge in providing nursing care

Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: contribuição ao Acesso Universal à Saúde e Cobertura Universal de Saúde

A Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem ha 40 anos tem sido fundamental na socializacao do conhecimento produzido na enfermagem. Condicao que expressa um compromisso explicito com as agendas dos orgaos internacionais cujas metas se caracterizam por identificar o impacto das transformacoes sociais, politicas, economicas e ambientais na saude e determinar acoes conjuntas com vistas a prevenir, promover, tratar e recuperar danos as populacoes vulneraveis.doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19831447.2016.04.70485 How to cite this article: Crossetti MGO, Goes MGO. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: a contribution to the Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage [Editorial]. Rev Gaúcha Enferm. 2016 Dec;37(4):e70485. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/19831447.2016.04.70485. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem: a contribution to the Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage

Prácticas en salud: visión del anciano negro en una comunidad religiosa afrobrasileña

OBJECTIVE to understand health practices of black, elderly people in a terreiro community (community of followers of traditional African-Brazilian religions). METHOD qualitative descriptive study under the Black-African paradigm of civilization constituted by the Black-African cultural complex and the structuring elements of the African cosmovision. Semi-structured interviews were carried out from July to September 2013, with six black older people from a terreiro community in Porto Alegre, RS. RESULTS thematic content analysis resulted in the following categories: Ancestry; Belonging: the way to know and practice health; Health knowledge and practices in terreiro communities; and Complementarity: promoting health in the terreiro and traditional medicine and its respective subcategories. CONCLUSION the study understood the importance of having a knowledge of the practices of African traditions in both the lifestyle and health of the older black population to help with nursing planning and interventions in response to their needs.

Health practices: the view of the black elderly population in a terreiro community

OBJECTIVE to understand health practices of black, elderly people in a terreiro community (community of followers of traditional African-Brazilian religions). METHOD qualitative descriptive study under the Black-African paradigm of civilization constituted by the Black-African cultural complex and the structuring elements of the African cosmovision. Semi-structured interviews were carried out from July to September 2013, with six black older people from a terreiro community in Porto Alegre, RS. RESULTS thematic content analysis resulted in the following categories: Ancestry; Belonging: the way to know and practice health; Health knowledge and practices in terreiro communities; and Complementarity: promoting health in the terreiro and traditional medicine and its respective subcategories. CONCLUSION the study understood the importance of having a knowledge of the practices of African traditions in both the lifestyle and health of the older black population to help with nursing planning and interventions in response to their needs.

Práticas em saúde: ótica do idoso negro em uma comunidade de terreiro

OBJECTIVE to understand health practices of black, elderly people in a terreiro community (community of followers of traditional African-Brazilian religions). METHOD qualitative descriptive study under the Black-African paradigm of civilization constituted by the Black-African cultural complex and the structuring elements of the African cosmovision. Semi-structured interviews were carried out from July to September 2013, with six black older people from a terreiro community in Porto Alegre, RS. RESULTS thematic content analysis resulted in the following categories: Ancestry; Belonging: the way to know and practice health; Health knowledge and practices in terreiro communities; and Complementarity: promoting health in the terreiro and traditional medicine and its respective subcategories. CONCLUSION the study understood the importance of having a knowledge of the practices of African traditions in both the lifestyle and health of the older black population to help with nursing planning and interventions in response to their needs.

Caracterização dos pacientes atendidos com crise hipertensiva num hospital de pronto socorro

Theoretical framework: Hypertensive crisis is the acute stage of hypertension. It is considered a chronic condition that affects people worldwide. Object...

Elementos estructurales del pensamiento crítico de enfermeras en emergencias

The objective of this study was to analyze the structural elements of critical thinking (CT) of nurses in the clinical decision-making process. This exploratory, qualitative study was conducted with 20 emergency care nurses in three hospitals in southern Brazil. Data were collected from April to June 2009, and a validated clinical case was applied from which nurses listed health problems, prescribed care and listed the structural elements of CT. Content analysis resulted in categories used to determine priority structural elements of CT, namely theoretical foundations and practical relationship to clinical decision making; technical and scientific knowledge and clinical experience, thought processes and clinical decision making: clinical reasoning and basis for clinical judgments of nurses: patient assessment and ethics. It was concluded that thinking critically is a skill that enables implementation of a secure and effective nursing care process.