Multi-professional team care: discourse of women in preoperative mastectomy

[Knowledge and expectations of women in the preoperative mastectomy].

The objective of this study was to understand the knowledge, concerns and expectations of patients suffering from breast cancer in relation to mastectomy. Interviews were performed with 11 women before their being submitted to surgery at the Hospital das Clinicas in Fortaleza (Ceará state) on December 2008. The hermeneutic-dialectical method was used for discourse analysis, and three theme cate...

Team-based assessment of professional behavior in medical students

Introducrion: Self and peer assessment provides important information about the individual’s performance and behavior in all aspects of their professional environment work. The aim of this study is to evaluate the professional behavior and performance in medical students in the form of team based assessment.Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 medical students in the 7th yearof education we...

investigation of (meta)discourse markers in elt coursebooks

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

Satisfaction of women after mastectomy for nursing care.

PURPOSE The assessment of satisfaction of women after mastectomy for nursing care. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research was carried out on a group of 217 patients after radical mastectomy and took place at Surgical Clinic of Swietokrzyskie Oncology Centre in Kielce. Authors' assessment scale was used in research. RESULTS Tested patients assessed nurses' professional tasks in terms of therapy a...

Team Work: Mastectomy, Reconstruction, and Radiation