Development of an online course for caregivers of older stroke patients.

Objective: To describe the development process of a massive, open, and online course for family caregivers of older people who had a medically diagnosed stroke.

Method: Experience report on the development of a massive, open, and online course. The preparation of the course took place from July 2021 to October 2022 and consisted of the stages:definition and analysis of the contents of the course; construction and approval of the storyboard; digital construction and approval of the early version; making the project available on a digital platform; preliminary evaluation and approval of the final version.

Comparison of patient classification systems for dimensioning nursing staff.

Objective: To compare nursing staff workload and dimensioning measured by two patient classification systems.

Method: Cross-sectional study, developed in a clinical inpatient unit of a large hospital in southern Brazil, between June and August 2022. Included patients (n = 260) were assessed through two different patient classification systems.

Elaboration and validation of a protocol for safe administration of enteral nutrition in hospitalized patients.

Objective: To describe the elaboration and validation of a protocol for administration of enteral nutrition.

Method: Validation study by consensus of experts conducted in a university hospital. The construction took place after literature review.

[Nursing outcomes for ineffective breathing patterns and impaired spontaneous ventilation in intensive care].

This study aimed to validate the results of Nursing selected from the link NANDA-I-NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification--NANDA--International) for diagnosis Ineffective Breathing Pattern and Impaired Spontaneous Ventilation in adult intensive care unit. This is a content validation study conducted in a university hospital in southern Brazil with 15 expert nurses with clinical experience and knowledge of the ratings. The instruments contained five-point Likert scales to rate the importance of each outcome (1st step) and indicator (Step 2) for the diagnoses studied.

[Nursing outcomes classification applicability on patients with self-care deficit bathing/hygiene].

The purpose of this research is to explore the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) applicability on hospitalized orthopedic patients diagnosed with Self-care Deficit: bathing/hygiene. This is a quantitative, descriptive study developed in a university hospital with patients submitted to total hip replacement in 2008. The data collection instrument was composed of 24 NOC Self-care outcome indicator: Self-care: Activities of Daily Living; Self-care: Bathing; Self-care: Hygiene; Self-care: Oral Hygiene; and a Likert scale in which 1 = dependent 2 = does not participate; 3 = requires an assistant; 4 = independent but requires an assistant mechanism; 5 = completely independent.

Validation of mapping of care actions prescribed for orthopedic patients onto the nursing interventions classification.

This study mapped the 52 nursing care actions prescribed for orthopedic patients onto Self-care Deficit: bathing and/or hygiene, Impaired Physical Mobility and Risk for Infection, according to the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC). The study was developed at a University Hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, using the Delphi Technique as the content validation method, considering a level of 70% of agreement among experts. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics.