Objective: To unveil the senses and meanings of conservative treatment in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Materials and Methods: A descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach. It was developed in 2017, with a sample of individuals with CKD undergoing conservative treatment. A semi-structured interview was used and the data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics and content analysis. Results: 25 individuals participated in the study, of which 56 % were female; 52 % belonged to the 60-79-year-old age group; 48 % were white-skinned; 48 % did not complete elementary school; and only 12 % worked. Content analysis revealed two categories: food restriction: anguishes and impacts that affect the daily lives of patients with CKD and the social imaginary and fear related to renal replacement therapy. Conclusions: The results revealed that diet and fear about dialysis therapy produce uncertainty, anxiety, and insecurity, in addition to a wide and impacting change in people’s lives.

Objective: To know the development of the scientific evidence on the uncertainty towards the disease of family caregivers of patients in palliative care. Materials and methods: A descriptive scoping review. A search was conducted in the Embase, ScienceDirect, Medline, Academic Search Complete, Scopus databases, during the 2000-2019 period. The following MeSH terms were used: uncertainty, palliative care, end of life, nursing and caregiver. Fifty articles were selected after the criticism process. Results: Five thematic nuclei emerged: characterization of uncertainty in the caregiver, factors influencing uncertainty, resources to manage uncertainty, uncertainty assessment, and therapies and interventions to approach uncertainty. The higher scale of evidence is found in the characterization of uncertainty in the caregiver, and the voids direct the development of Nursing interventions on the uncertainty of the caregivers of individuals in palliative care. Conclusions: Although the factors influencing uncertainty towards the disease of the caregiver are widely explored, the evidence on the interventions that may help to reduce uncertainty towards the disease is still limited.

Objective: To identify the available evidence on the necessary information for the families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Method: An integrative literature review carried out in six databases with specific descriptors for each one. Studies published on the theme between January 2014 and February 2020 available in full and free of charge were selected. For synthesis and analysis of data, thematic categorization was performed. 41 articles were included. Results: Two thematic categories were obtained. In the first category (“need for information”), the families’ lack of knowledge about ASD (treatment, how to deal with the child’s behavior, and future perspectives), rights of the child with ASD, and resources to obtain information were identified. The second category (“information support sources accessed by the families”) comprised informal sources (family members, friends, neighbors, and parents of children with ASD), formal sources (professionals and institutions), the Internet, and other resources (books, workshops, podcasts). Positive and negative aspects were found in the use of these sources. Conclusions: A pattern of information requested by the family was verified, as well as sources used to obtain it. These data are relevant to support the organization of sources of informational support for the families and the community.

Vivimos tiempos complejos de grandes riesgos e incertidumbres, pero también de oportunidades. Las sociedades abiertas han desarrollado nuevos estilos de vida que, a su vez, generan nuevos problemas de salud, la mayoría de ellos de etiología sociocultural. El aumento de las movilizaciones humanas y de la diversidad cultural requiere de todos a aprender a vivir en la diferencia. Destaquemos, también, que los pacientes están cambiando y reclaman un papel más activo. En este contexto, la Enfermería tiene delante retos y desafíos importantes. Resaltaría, entre todos, la necesidad de un cambio en la relación enfermera-paciente. De cara al cuidado de los pacientes inmigrantes, neutralizar la barrera de los prejuicios, así como superar el tradicional paternalismo hacia el paciente. Finalmente, es necesario un giro epistemológico para situar en primer plano los problemas de salud de origen sociocultural, actualmente relegados y subordinados por la biomedicina. La Enfermería tiene en frente la gran oportunidad de liderar este cambio.

An increase in longevity almost always implies the manifestation of more health problems, especially chronic diseases. And here, the elderly’s well-being and quality of life may be compromised since their level of dependence on others for everyday activities tends to increase and accentuate. Technologies can play a fundamental role in supporting and helping both the elderly —through telepresence robots that reduce their social isolation— and the informal caregiver —by installing a network of sensors that allow programming alarms for changing position and taking medication, for example—. Therefore, technologies can and should be put at the service of the elderly not to replace the human factor, but as a complement thereto.

Objective: adapt and validate the instrument Children Care Quality at Hospital (CCQH) to assess the quality of nursing care of hospitalized children for the Portuguese language of Portugal. Materials and Methods: content, language, and conceptual validity methodological study, with translation, feedback, and reflection. A non-probabilistic simple was used of 252 children between 7 and 11 years of age, hospitalized due to acute disease in nine services of six Portuguese hospitals. The reliability and validity of the results were determined to measure the psychometric properties of the instrument. Construct validity was calculated through exploratory factor analysis of main components with Varimax rotation and the internal consistency by determining the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Results: the internal consistency has adequate psychometric characteristics suitable for the Portuguese population (Cronbach’s alpha values between 0.66 and 0.82). The instrument maintained 49 items grouped into three categories: characteristics, activities, and environment. The psychometric characteristics of the CCQH, adapted and validated for Portuguese, guarantees its reliability and validity to measure satisfaction with the quality of nursing care from the perspective of school-aged children. Conclusions: the instrument could be used to assess children’s satisfaction with the quality of nursing care during their hospitalization.

Objective: To translate and culturally adapt the Scale to Measure the Care Ability of Family Caregivers of People with Chronic Diseases to the Brazilian context. Materials and Methods: This is a methodological study that followed the steps recommended by Dorcas Beaton for translating and culturally adapting this scale in Brazil. All ethical precepts have been respected. Results: The first translation of the instrument into Brazilian Portuguese was done by two translators; the consensual version was then established, which was back-translated into Spanish by another independent translator. The committee of specialists comprised seven health professionals, obtaining a content validity index (CVI) = 1.00 in 41 items, CVI = 0.86 in three items and CVI = 0.71 in four items. After adjusting the seven items, a pretest was applied to 14 family caregivers of people with chronic kidney disease. Based on this, the participants’ difficulties were observed, and then the items were reviewed. Conclusions: After the translation and adaptation process was completed, the Brazilian version of the instrument entitled “Scale to Measure the Care Ability of Family Caregivers of People with Chronic Diseases” was obtained.

Objective: This work sought to assess the effectiveness of the treatment applied in patients with acute pain in the emergency service by triage nursing. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional, observational descriptive study of quantitative approach, with measures of central tendency in 348 patients, conducted in 2016. An ad hoc questionnaire was used, elaborated by the emergency service, which assesses the intensity of pain through a numerical scale and a pain intervention protocol that includes physical and pharmacological measures. Results: After applying the first treatment, 80.17 % of the patients experienced improvement; 7.18 % required a second treatment and, of these, 87.5 % improved and 12.5 % suffered no modifications. The nursing staff treated the patients according to the protocol, with AINES and Metamizole, primarily. The rest were remitted to medical evaluation and another 40 patients rejected treatment. Conclusions: A high percentage of patients exist who improve their perception of pain after the first treatment administered by the triage nursing personnel. The results suggest revising and updating the protocol in the first treatment.

Objective: This work sought to evaluate a physical exercise program of moderate intensity in patients operated of bariatric surgery and its influence on muscle strength. Method: Randomized clinical trial, with an intervention group and a control group. Forty-three patients were operated of bariatric surgery. The intervention group was applied a program of moderate physical activity during six months. Grip strength and bioimpedance were measured at their baseline form, at one month, and six months after surgery. A bivariate study was conducted to observe variable changes. Results: Upon conducting Student´s t for independent samples in all the variables (weight, body mass index, grip strength, lean mass, fat mass, and metabolism), the result is that no significant differences exist between the intervention group and the control group with p > 0.05. Conclusion: A program of moderate physical activity lasting six months in patients intervened of bariatric surgery has no significant result in the development of muscle mass evaluated through manual dynamometry and bioimpedance.