RE - Série 2, n.º 09: (2019)
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- Sanitary Conditions of Primary Health Care Services from the perspective of Sanitary SurveillancePublication . Lima, Yara; Souza, Mariluce; Paz, Bianca Maria; Costa, EdináIntroduction: Sanitary surveillance (SS) is aimed at the risk associated with products and services and is part of the activities related to Primary Health Care (PHC) in its structure and processes. Objectives: To analyze the perception of SS professionals on the sanitary conditions (SC) of PHC services. Methods: Professionals of Sanitary surveillance teams Participated of a Focus Group (FG) of four Sanitary Districts of Salvador. The reports were analyzed based on documents and regulations of the Ministry of Health (MOH). Results: The participants of the FG associated SC to health risks, highlighting problems regarding the structure of services and provision of equipment/materials for actions under the PHC. They presented strategies to minimize risks such as preventive maintenance of equipment, supply of materials for the provision of care, and monitoring and organization of the work process in an appropriate manner. They considered "persistence" as an important trait for the work of SS professionals to achieve the minimization of health risks of workers and users in the PHC. Conclusions: The data collection technique of FG enabled the discussion of the topic and the reflection of professionals on their practices. However, it was found that for the implementation of FG, the focus on the theme is challenging. It is considered that it was difficult for SS professionals to address the possible implications of SC on PHC services and on the health of the population.
- End of life in neonatology: experiences of health professionals in neonatal palliative carePublication . Pereira, Ana CristinaIntroduction: It has recently been shown that professionals working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units show an increasing interest in decisions made at the end of life and in the quality of care provided to newborns and their families. Objetives: To understand the experiences of health professionals regarding neonatal palliative care. Methods: The research methodology was qualitative, exploratory-descriptive and phenomenological. Results: Questionnaires were applied and analyzed to 15 professionals working at a NICU in central Portugal. The data obtained show lack of teaching and lack of protocols/guidelines, as well as the need of psychological support to professionals and family of the NB. Conclusion: Continuous and specific training, support and psychological counseling of professionals and families should be the pillar of neonatal palliative care.
- The patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: how rehabilitation nurses promote self-carePublication . Nabais, Ana; Sá, Maria do CéuIntroduction: The increased prevalence of chronic diseases such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has a high social and economic impact, compromises patient's health and consequently the way they manage the disease and promote self-care. Objectives: Systematize rehabilitation nursing interventions that promote self- care in the person with COPD. Methods: This study consists of a systematic review of the literature. To understand and analyze this phenomenon, Orem's Theory of Self-Care was used. Results: The results showed that nursing intervention programs, consisting of respiratory exercises, exercise training and a strong educational component, especially on symptom control and therapeutic management, promote self-care, self-management and self-efficacy. Conclusions: Rehabilitation’s nurses, with their competences, where the educational strategies are highlighted, contributes to the management of the health condition of these patients.
- Lyrical singers: duets with anxietyPublication . Ferreira, MarleneIntroduction: This article describes and analyses the partial results of a broad qualitative study, whose goal was to explore how performance anxiety is presented in the everyday life of the lyrical singer. Objectives: The daily life changes before a recital and what strategies are used in the their confrontation by this group of professionals. Methods: The results presented are centered in the production of discourse from three questions covering the experience of anxiety on musical performance, and the eventual strategies applied to overcome it. These data were gathered using a social-professional questionnaire and a semi-structured interview addressed to a group of 8 lyric singers with over 6 years of experience, sampled through the snowball method. Grounded Theory was the procedure chosen to access the emerging constructs in the participants’ discourses, following the routines of analysis unit selection, memorandum generation and categorization on two levels (descriptive and conceptual). Results: The method focuses on the production of the speeches concerning three question about the experience of musical performance anxiety, daily routines adopted in the pre-recital period and the eventual strategies used to overcome anxious symptomatology. Conclusions: The collected results recognize the harmful impact of performance, a constant conviviality with the anxiety and consequent changes in daily life routines at personal and social level, leading to the adoption of strategies for anxiety control.
- A Comparative Study, between China and Portugal, of the Professional Training of the Master of TranslationPublication . Hu, Zhihua; Roberto, Maria TeresaIntroduction: With globalization, the interdependence of skills and domains has deepened worldwide. The training of competent translators is becoming more and more important. In 2007, the Chinese Academic Degree Commission began the implementation of the MTI (Master’s in Translation and Interpreting). So far, more than 200 universities have already received the qualification to start this course. Unlike the academic masters’, the MTI is a professional master’s degree, with the objective of training competent translators so that, after training, they can adapt quickly to the demands of the labour market. Objectives: Due to the late start and little experience in this area, despite the very rapid growth of the number of universities with MTI, the translators trained in this master’s course do not have the skills required by the labour market. For the time being, the level of MTI training in China is still very far from the foreign mature models, which resulted in this comparative analysis, between China and Portugal, of the master’s degree in translation. According to Nord (2006), besides the translation skill, there are also linguistic, cultural, professional, and technical skills. During training the focus should mainly be on the translation, professional and technical skills. In fact, Nord created the textual analysis model, emphasizing the importance of the analysis and of the decision concerning the internal and external factors to the texts. This way, she made the suggestions for the steps to be followed in the training of translators, clarifying the intercultural character of the translation and the roles of translators. Methods: Based on Nord’s (2006) theoretical model concerning the training of translators, a comparative study is carried out between the master’s course in translation in China and Portugal. Specifically, the objectives and the study plans of both masters’ courses will be studied, analyzing the differences and similarities with regard to the training of future professionals. Results: In this paper we compare the curricular plans of the three study cycles of Chinese and Portuguese universities, regarding translation, linguistic, cultural, professional and theoretical competences. Conclusions: We hope that this research can become an incentive for new policy making in education, contributing to the increase of practical and specialized teaching in students who wish to become a translator.
- Learning a /through a foreign language in higher educationPublication . Morgado, Margarida; Vicente Gómez, Luís; Calvete, MarceloIntroduction: Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are allegedly preparing students for a globalized working area where people will need to be ready to communicate effectively in one or more foreign languages in international working environments, which puts a lot of pressure on how foreign languages (FL) are learned in Higher Education (HE). Methods: This article explores how a FL or learning through a FL could be approached in HEI, focusing mainly on what employers claim in terms of skills of recent graduates or on-the-job workers. Case studies are used, combining interviews to employers and questionnaires to HE students to find out their perceptions on FL learning requirements for greater employability. Conclusions: A series of recommendations are made for HEI on how to promote students’ employability skills; on the best practices for the development of intercultural communicative competence and FL skills to communicate effectively in international or digitally-mediated working environments; as well as on how to prepare the teaching staff for emerging trends that involve using a FL as medium of instruction or CLIL, a content and language integrated approach. These testify to the importance of learning a FL or through a FL, as well as the need to combine transversal skills development in connection to FL learning.
- Second foreign languages and employability in the Catalonia of the SXXIPublication . Lopez Garcia, PatriciaIntroduction: Despite considering the English language, Lingua Franca par excellence, Catalan companies, due to their growing economic internationalization, demand more and more professionals with skills in foreign languages associated with skills and attitudes linked to employability. These characteristics reflect the needs of the labour market, which implies a strong synergy between universities and companies in order to provide future graduates with the most suitable skills for a quality labour market insertion. Methods: Our analysis is based on the study of two different profiles of graduates, on the one hand, students of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and on the other hand, students of the Degree in Tourism of Euroaula-University of Girona, two areas in which knowledge of second languages is unavoidable for their subsequent incorporation into the labour market. We will focus on second foreign languages (French, German, Italian, etc.) which are part of the growing needs of the Catalan business sector. Conclusions: The graduates who can accredit linguistic knowledge in two foreign languages, associated with transversal skills linked to employability, are future professionals highly coveted by the world of work. From this perspective, the world of education must try to reconsider the teaching of foreign languages that is more in line with the needs of knowledge, know-how and know how to be.
- A study on the feasibility of implementing a quality management system, based on the EFQM model in a School of EngineeringPublication . Santos, Ricardo; Abreu, AntónioIntroduction: Currently, and in a competitive context, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) increasingly depend on the quality of their services, not only to satisfy their different stakeholders, but also to attract funding. In this way, HEIs tend to incorporate Internal Quality Management Systems (IQMS) into their strategy with a view to the continuous improvement of their performance. This work intends to analyze the applicability of an HEI, based on the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model, through its implementation in a public Portuguese HEI. Objectives: Contribute to a critical analysis of the applicability of an IQMS in the organizational performance of an HEI, based on the EFQM model, and implemented in a published HEI. Methods: A number of advantages and difficulties were obtained. For the difficulties obtained, it was proposed a set of suggestions for its overcoming. Results: A number of advantages and difficulties were obtained. For the difficulties obtained, it was proposed a set of suggestions for its overcoming. Conclusions: The application of the SIGQ in the HEI under study, proved to be beneficial, due to a set of perceived advantages, among them, the increase of the organizational efficiency. For each one of the disadvantages identified in the study, a set of solutions was proposed for its mitigation, thus allowing to reinforce the potential of applying the EFQM model in an HEI.
- Adhesion strength of flame sprayed ceramic coatings obtained by robotic projectionPublication . Seabra, Eurico; Silva, Luís; Aliew, Fuad; Sarmento, Joana MoraisIntroduction: One of the possible applications of ceramic thermal barriers is in shells (permanent moulds – die casting). The moulds` capacity to support very high temperatures (up to 1600 °C) plays a crucial role in the selection of materials due to the liquid state of the cast iron. Objectives: This paper presents and discusses the obtained results from robotic flame projection tests, carried out with the purpose to quantify the influence of several factors of flame sprayed in the adhesion strength of coatings of Nickel-Aluminium-Molybdenum and Zirconium Oxide. In literature a minimum adhesion strength was not found for the application of thermal ceramic barriers in the coating of permanent casting moulds, so in this work it is intended to obtain its values considering several combinations of projection parameters and substrates. Methods: The determination of the adhesion strength was performed according to the standard ASTM C633-79 where the coated test specimens were glued to CK45 steel against-specimens with a cyanoacrylate glue (LOCTITE 415). A weight of 100 N was then applied for 3 minutes to promote the initiation of the polymerization reaction of the cyanoacrylates and a period of 24 hours was needed so the bonded glue could acquire its maximum strength (sufficient enough to tear off the coating of the specimen). Finally tensile tests were carried out at the speed of 1 mm/min. Results: The main parameters studied are the material of the substrate, the projection angle and the substrate preheating temperature. The higher adhesion strength for the sprayed to 90° (average value of 6.2 MPa) was obtained by the specimens of spheroidal graphite cast iron (SGCI) with a preheating temperature of 120 °C. For the preheating of 90 °C and spray angle of 90° the aluminum-copper (AlCu) and brass specimens were the ones that obtained the higher adhesion strengths (average value of 4.5 MPa). The sprayed of 65° originates the higher adhesion strength in all the materials used for the substrate, being the highest value (average value of 8.3 MPa) obtained by the spheroidal graphite cast iron. Conclusions: The results obtained clearly suggest that the substrate material and the preheating temperature strongly influence the adhesion strength. The analysis of the coatings microstructures, using optical microscopy, supports this observation.