Objetivo: conhecer as reações e sentimentos da família frente à internação do recém-nascido na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal. Método: pesquisa qualitativa realizada em Unidade Neonatal no sul do Brasil em 2018. Participaram 12 familiares. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevistas e os dados submetidos à Análise de Conteúdo. Resultados: A aceitação da internação foi difícil e acompanhada de medo, angústia, ansiedade, mas também de fé e esperança. Procuraram permanecer o máximo de tempo com o recém-nascido. A licença gestante favoreceu o acompanhamento do mesmo. Mães que permaneceram internadas tiveram o contato diário e a criação do vínculo com o neonato favorecidos. O tempo que passaram no setor foi aproveitado para desempenhar cuidados e para a amamentação. Conclusão: Profissionais que atuam em unidades neonatais devem implementar estratégias de apoio para auxiliar as famílias no cuidado ao neonato no setor e no enfrentamento da situação vivenciada.

Objetivo: identificar a associação entre os fatores de risco e as complicações pós-operatórias em pacientes submetidos a cirurgia cardíaca. Método: estudo documental, retrospectivo, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado com 388 prontuários de pacientes submetidos à cirurgia cardíaca. A coleta de dados foi realizada entre agosto e setembro de 2018. Para verificar associações entre fatores de risco e complicação no pós-operatório imediato utilizou-se o teste de Qui-quadrado de Pearson. Utilizou p-valor <0,05. Resultados: verificou-se associação estatística significativa entre os fatores de risco infarto agudo do miocárdio, insuficiência cardíaca, insuficiência renal crônica cardiopatia isquêmica, balão intra-aórtico, doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica e diabetes mellitus com complicações no pós-operatório imediato. Conclusão: ao conhecer os fatores de risco dos pacientes submetidos à cirurgia cardíaca com associação nas complicações pós-operatórias os enfermeiros poderão realizar um plano de cuidados individual além de ações de prevenção dos fatores de risco.

Objective: Analyze the exposure of nursing workers to workloads present in university hospitals located in southern Brazil. Method: Cross-sectional quantitative study performed with 361 nursing workers from two University Hospitals between November 2019 and February 2020. An instrument addressing sociodemographic and occupational variables was used together with the previously validated Workloads in Nursing Activities Scale. The distribution of frequencies, measures of location, and variability were identified, and analysis of variance and the Tukey test were performed. Results: The construct that obtained the highest mean was F3 – Biological Loads (3.00), revealing that nursing workers are very intensively exposed to biological loads. Workloads were significantly different between the work units – physiological (p = 0.001), biological (p = 0.007), psychological (p = 0.042), mechanical (p = 0.014), chemical (p = 0.001), and physical (p = 0.001). Conclusion: The workers identified that exposure to workloads varies in intensity, showing aspects of the work performed in health institutions that either aggravate or mitigate workloads through the activities performed by nursing workers.

Objective: to analyze fatigue among nurse educators affiliated with Brazilian public universities while teaching online and hybrid courses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: qualitative, cross-sectional study addressing 318 nurse educators teaching in federal and state public universities between July and November 2021. The adapted and validated version of the Three-Dimensional Work Fatigue Inventory (3D-WFI) was used to assess fatigue. The means were compared, and variance analysis (ANOVA) was performed with the Bonferroni test and t-test. The statistically significant variables (p<0.05) remained in the model. Results: the participants were 42 (± 9.4) on average; most were women, 279 (87.7%); 225 (70.8%) had children; and 313 (98.4%) reported performing house chores along with online teaching. In addition to the activities concerning undergraduate programs, 88 (27.7%) participants also performed activities in graduate programs. An association was found between course modality (entirely online or face-to-face, or hybrid) and the dimensions: physical fatigue (p=0.041), mental fatigue (p=0.001), and emotional fatigue (p=0.019), and between taking care of children and help them with school tasks while also teaching classes online and physical fatigue (p=0.012), mental fatigue (p=0.001), and emotional fatigue (p=0.000). Conclusion: the significant differences between course modality and the three dimensions of fatigue (physical, mental, and emotional) showed that the participants experienced physical and mental fatigue during and after work.

The study aims to analyze the national and international scientific biography about the workloads present in nursing care for elderly. A search was executed in July 2019, in five databases, establishing the criteria of inclusion and exclusion, in the final four studies were selected. The results highlighted aging as a natural process, showing that care for the elderly has particularities and being necessary to monitor the exposure of nursing workers to workloads for subsidize better working conditions and interventions in health institutions. Concludes that if they improve working conditions the workers have less exposure to workloads and it will possibly increase the quality of care, affecting the life of the elderly person and his family.