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Abstract:
It approaches the nursing assistants' opinion about the importance of shift report in the continuity of nursing assistance. It aims to find subsidies that can contribute to a better development of this activity in the nursing practice. It is a descriptive research that uses an opinion poll with 15 nursing assistants of one clinical unit of a university hospital in Porto Alegre/RS. The data were collected through a questionnaire with closed questions and one open question. The data analysis of the closed questions was done by a manual tabulation of the obtained answers, and they were grouped by regularity and repetition. The data treatment of the opened question was through the thematic analysis with categories construction and contents quantification. It was possible to verify that the study subjects are interested in changing aspects related to the activity. It was emphasized the need to greater objectivity in the information transmission and in the time reduction.
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