Gestures-enhanced anatomy teaching: A literature review of an educational strategy with promising outcomes.

Purpose: The educational use of gestures has resulted in positive outcomes in several fields. We performed a literature review to investigate the outcomes of the use of gestures to enhance the existing anatomy education methods.

Methods: PubMed, SCOPUS, ERIC and Cochrane databases were searched for papers with purpose to investigate the outcomes of the use of gestures (either seeing or performing them or both) as adjuncts to existing anatomy education methods.

Continuous Education in Community Nursing with the Use of Health Informatics.

Continuous Education can make a significant progress in any professional scientific discipline such as Nursing, which is constantly evolving. The main purpose of this paper is the review of contemporary literature in relation to the continuous education in community-nursing, with the use of health informatics. Additionally, these reasons are examined for which, nurses attend or not programs of continuing education.

Gender bias favors female nursing students in the written examination evaluation: Crossover study.

Background: Gender discrimination against male nursing students has been reported and attributed to the female-dominated tradition of nursing profession.

Objectives: To investigate gender bias in the written examination evaluation of undergraduate nursing students.

Design: One-group crossover study with two phases.

mHealth in Chronic Pain Assessment: Present and Future.

Chronic Pain (CP) is a condition which is difficult to assess. Existing methods are based on self-management treatments and leaving the big part of the assessment on the patient. According on this method, mHealth applications offer tools to CP patients to self-manage their condition and improve it.

Managing the Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Literature Review.

The present research attempts to approach a complex concept. The quality of life of multiple sclerosis patients. A literature review was conducted.