Tatiana Braga de Camargo

Self-care and accident with biological waste: Grounded Theory

Work settings have demanded more and more that workers take care of themselves in order to avoid burnout. In the health area, the professionals who take care of other human beings sometimes forget about themselves and suffer the harmful consequences, among them, work accident with biological hazard. Thus, it aims to identify the factors that foster health workers’ self-care among those who suffered accident with biological waste. This article is part of a dissertation which uses the grounded theory as a methodological landmark, trying to grasp the whole of a phenomenon which portrays the experience of a given social group. The research study has three sampling groups totaling eleven subjects. The first group takes up health workers who had accident with biological waste and ended surveillance, the second one entails the ones who quit surveillance and the third one with professionals who render care to those who had accidents. Data collection was carried out by means of semi-structured interviews between December/2008 and August/2009. Among the themes, categories, sub-categories and components evolved in the dissertation, it was chosen to explicit in this work the category “Perceiving the factors that collaborate in the care of oneself” which comprises the following sub-categories: “Cutting down accident hazards”, “Facilitating the use of Standard Prevention”, “Setting up Scientific Knowledge Influences”, “Increasing the number of surveillance compliance”. “Being aware”, and “Fearing”. It is necessary to work with these professionals in order to potentialize these factors that help them care of themselves so that attention towards them be increased and brings about beneficial consequences to the health of those individuals who take care of other human beings.

The experience of family care in transitional support houses.

OBJECTIVE to present the theoretical model that represents the experience of care in transitional homes of support to families of children in a period of post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells. METHOD grounded theory, performed with 18 participants from three different samples. For analysis, we used the QSR Nvivo10 software. RESULTS we elaborated four categories: living in the transitional support home; experiencing care of children in post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells; taking care of the family caregiver; and returning to a new life at home, which interrelate according to the theoretical code of the interactive family. CONCLUSION this research contributes to understanding the experience of care in transitional support homes of families with children in post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells and subsidizes nursing and health actions provided to this population; it also contributes to the development of a hospital discharge guidance and care directed to this clientele.

The kinds of knowledge involved in nursing home care: integrative review of the scientific production

It is an integrative review on Brazilian Nursing scientific production which objectifies to recognize the different kinds of knowledge involved in nursing home care productions. The research study took up January/1998 to March/2008 and resulted in the analysis of 41 productions (34 articles, a PhD thesis, a post-graduation monograph, one graduation paper and four publications in Congress annals), distributed in the following database: MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO and BDENF. The results evidenced that scientific knowledge was present in 100% of the studies followed by political (63.4%), ethical (56.1%), artistic (19.5%), philosophical and common sense (9.7% each), religious (7.3%), esthetical and mythical knowing (2.4% each). It can be concluded that the professionals in the researched studies use such knowing to deliver nursing home care, however there is a need to broaden studies on the theme in order to bring together scientific knowledge and the other kinds of knowing aforementioned, aiming to render clients and their families authentic, effective and through home care.

Sociopolitical knowing and nurse: reflection

Healthcare workers have been subjected to poor working situations without coming together and facing that. Thus, this article objectifies to reflect on the implications of the apprehension of the sociopolitical knowing by healthcare workers. Sociopolitical knowing - presented by White (1995) as one of the nursing patterns of knowing - enables to understand the political, social and economical world. It must be used as a liberation instrument once it provides healthcare workers with autonomy, emancipation, governability and empowerment and enables them to carry out beneficial changes in their working conditions which entail the improvement in personal, professional and staff quality of life, personal and professional satisfaction, and consequently improvement in the quality of healthcare delivered to clients and their families.

La vivencia del cuidado familiar en casas transitorias de apoyo

OBJECTIVE to present the theoretical model that represents the experience of care in transitional homes of support to families of children in a period of post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells. METHOD grounded theory, performed with 18 participants from three different samples. For analysis, we used the QSR Nvivo10 software. RESULTS we elaborated four categories: living in the transitional support home; experiencing care of children in post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells; taking care of the family caregiver; and returning to a new life at home, which interrelate according to the theoretical code of the interactive family. CONCLUSION this research contributes to understanding the experience of care in transitional support homes of families with children in post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells and subsidizes nursing and health actions provided to this population; it also contributes to the development of a hospital discharge guidance and care directed to this clientele.

A vivência do cuidado familiar em casas transitórias de apoio

OBJECTIVE to present the theoretical model that represents the experience of care in transitional homes of support to families of children in a period of post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells. METHOD grounded theory, performed with 18 participants from three different samples. For analysis, we used the QSR Nvivo10 software. RESULTS we elaborated four categories: living in the transitional support home; experiencing care of children in post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells; taking care of the family caregiver; and returning to a new life at home, which interrelate according to the theoretical code of the interactive family. CONCLUSION this research contributes to understanding the experience of care in transitional support homes of families with children in post-transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells and subsidizes nursing and health actions provided to this population; it also contributes to the development of a hospital discharge guidance and care directed to this clientele.

O apoio da rede social no cuidado domiciliar

Objective: Interpret the experience of support from the social network for people involved in homecare. Methods: It is a theory based on data, with 12 participating patients in homecare, members of primary and secondary social networks; conducted in the area of a Family Health Strategy Health Unit of a metropolitan city in Southern Brazil. We used semi-structured interviews for data collection and data analysis was with the Glaser method. Results: We staged four categories that describe the phenomenon under study “to identify the sources of support in homecare; “featuring the social networks that provide support in homecare”, ”it is understood as part of the social network that provides support for homecare” and “realizing changes arising from homecare”. Conclusions: Highlighting importance of social networks in homecare, the nurse as significant social support, use of electronic resources as a source of support and need for participation.

The support of social network in homecare

Objective: Interpret the experience of support from the social network for people involved in homecare. Methods: It is a theory based on data, with 12 participating patients in homecare, members of primary and secondary social networks; conducted in the area of a Family Health Strategy Health Unit of a metropolitan city in Southern Brazil. We used semi-structured interviews for data collection and data analysis was with the Glaser method. Results: We staged four categories that describe the phenomenon under study “to identify the sources of support in homecare; “featuring the social networks that provide support in homecare”, ”it is understood as part of the social network that provides support for homecare” and “realizing changes arising from homecare”. Conclusions: Highlighting importance of social networks in homecare, the nurse as significant social support, use of electronic resources as a source of support and need for participation.

El apoyo de la red social en el cuidado domiciliario

Objective: Interpret the experience of support from the social network for people involved in homecare. Methods: It is a theory based on data, with 12 participating patients in homecare, members of primary and secondary social networks; conducted in the area of a Family Health Strategy Health Unit of a metropolitan city in Southern Brazil. We used semi-structured interviews for data collection and data analysis was with the Glaser method. Results: We staged four categories that describe the phenomenon under study “to identify the sources of support in homecare; “featuring the social networks that provide support in homecare”, ”it is understood as part of the social network that provides support for homecare” and “realizing changes arising from homecare”. Conclusions: Highlighting importance of social networks in homecare, the nurse as significant social support, use of electronic resources as a source of support and need for participation.