Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing

Objective: to present an overview of the ethical-professional decision-making process in exceptional situations at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: this is a scoping review, including documents published between December 2019 and July 2020 in the following databases: Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, SciELO, CINAHL and BVS. The PRISMA-ScR Checklist was adopted to present the review. Results: a total of 28 documents were selected, organized into five categories: Technical-Medical-Scientific Requirement, Justice and Equality, Health History, Commission for Shared Decision-Making and Severe Respiratory Condition. Conclusion: the criteria indicated to prioritize the care process targeted at critically-ill patients with COVID-19 were as follows: technical-medical-scientific parameters; severity of the clinical condition; older age; being a health professional; presence of incurable underlying diseases; carrying out draws; and patients with a higher survival probability. 

Objective: to describe maternal knowledge about childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: descriptive field research with a qualitative approach, carried out with 30 mothers of young children aged between zero and 24 months. Participants were selected at home, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were analyzed and interpreted through content analysis. Results: 4 categories were created: Mothers' knowledge about childcare; Childcare appointments in times of the COVID-19 pandemic; Surveillance of child development from the perspective of mothers; Mothers' knowledge about the assessment of infant developmental milestones. Conclusion: poor communication between health providers and mothers, limited knowledge of mothers in relation to child development and because of the pandemic were revealed, and mothers are afraid to take children for child developmental follow-up.

Objectives: To analyze news items that deal with irregularities involving Nursing professionals during the vaccination process against COVID-19 and to discuss technical,ethical and legal courses of action applied or suggested by the Federal and RegionalNursing Councils. Method: A documentary, qualitative and descriptive-exploratoryresearch study, whose sources were news items published by the Nursing Councils.The data were processed in the IRAMUTEQ® software through descending hierarchical classification, which allowed performing the lexical data analysis. Results: Atotal of 19 news items constituted the textual corpus, with identification of 117 TextSegments, of which 95 were used (81.20%) and created two thematic blocks. Thefirst deals with the vaccination moment and the second is on the ethical dilemmasof this process. Conclusion: The leading role of the Nursing team in immunizationis evidenced. Mistrust and patrolling emerged, due to news items about unethicalactions. There is a need to protect...

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Objective: to map the scientific evidence linking the risks of developing obesity in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: a scoping review as recommended by the Joanna Briggs Institute. The guiding question was as follows: What scientific evidence relates the risks of developing obesity in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic? The searches were carried out in five databases and in another three sources from the gray literature. Thus, 12 studies comprised the final sample. Results: the risk factors related to the development of obesity among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic are physical inactivity in daily living, fragility in psychological care, difficulty in nutritional education, and lack of body and complementary care measures. Conclusion: the risks related to adolescents' health during the COVID-19 pandemic are modifiable and Nursing plays an essential role for health promotion, disease prevention and encouraging the adoption of healthy habits.