A prevenção e a promoção da saúde bucal dos pacientes internados em uma unidade de terapia intensiva é responsabilidade da equipe de enfermagem. Revisão integrativa que teve o objetivo de identificar as contribuições das pesquisas produzidas por enfermeiros sobre os cuidados bucais aos pacientes internados nestas unidades. Selecionou-se 17 artigos publicados no período de 2010 a 2016 indexados no State National Library of Medicine (PubMed/MEDLINE) e na Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). Os estudos foram categorizados conforme as intervenções para o controle do biofilme dental. A escovação foi apontada como a melhor prática para o controle mecânico e o gluconato de clorexidina a 0,12% para controle químico. As intervenções mecânica e química combinadas foram mais eficazes na prevenção das infecções respiratórias. Estudos clínicos comparativos devem ser desenvolvidos por enfermeiros que atuam na prática clínica, para que seja possível traçar condutas efetivas sobre os cuidados bucais.

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Objective: to determine the incidence of falls in elderly residents of long-stay institutions of the Federal District, to identify the aspects involved in the falls, in terms of risk factors, from the application of scales and the Taxonomy II of NANDA-I, and to define the level of accuracy with its sensitivity and specificity for application in the clinical nursing practice. Method: this was a cohort study with the evaluation of 271 elderly people. Cognition, functionality, mobility and other intrinsic factors were evaluated. After six months, the elderly people who fell were identified, with significance analysis then performed to define the risk factors. Results: the results showed an incidence of 41%. Of the 271 patients included, 69 suffered 111 episodes of falls during the monitoring period. Risk factors were the presence of stroke with its sequelae (OR: 1.82, 95% CI 1.01 - 3.28, p=.045), presenting more than five chronic diseases (OR: 2.82, 95% CI 1.43 - 5.56, p=.0028), foot problem (OR: 2.45, 95% CI 1.35 - 4.44, p=.0033) and motion (OR: 2.04, 95% CI 1.15 - 3.61, p=.0145). Conclusion: the taxonomy has high validity regarding the detection of elderly people at risk of falling and should be applied consistently in the clinical nursing practice.

The present paper aims to describe the most frequent nursing diagnoses found in a group of clients with hematologic diseases. Authors used the Taxonomy I proposed by the North American Nursing Diagnoses Association (NANDA) to guide this study. Data were collected from 14 clients. Authors identified 16 nursing diagnoses whose frequency were equal or higher to fifty percent. Other studies are needed to find a better definition of the diagnostic profile of these clients.