Indicators of effectiveness of nursing care in the dimension of patient safety.

Objectives: to validate nursing care effectiveness indicators of patient safety dimension.

Methods: quantitative survey, using the electronic Delphi sampli, with 52 participants selected by the Snowball sampling. Eight indicators were evaluated regarding the attributes: availability, reliability, simplicity, representativeness, sensitivity, comprehensiveness, objectivity, cost, utility, stability and timeliness.

Translation and adaptation of the Competencias Esenciales en Salud Pública para los recursos humanos en salud.

Objective:: to perform the translation and cultural adaptation of the document named Marco Regional de Competencias Esenciales en Salud Pública para los Recursos Humanos en Salud de la Región de las Américas (Regional Framework of Core Competencies in Public Health for Health Human Resources in the Region of Americas) from Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese.

Method:: a methodological study comprising the following phases: authorization for translation; initial translation; synthesis of translations and consensus; back-translation and formation of an expert committee.

Result:: in the translation of domain names, there was no difference in 66.

Positive deviance as a strategy to prevent and control bloodstream infections in intensive care.

Objective: To describe the application of positive deviance as a strategy to prevent and control bloodstream infections.

Method: An intervention study with nursing and medical team members working in an intensive care unit in a university hospital, between June and December 2014. The four steps of the positive defiance methodology were applied: to define, to determine, to discover and to design.

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Portuguese version of the Nursing Clinical Facilitators Questionnaire.

Objective: to perform the cultural adaptation to Portuguese of the Nursing Clinical Facilitators Questionnaire (NCFQ), which was designed by the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Technology of Sydney, and to validate this instrument.

Methods: this methodological study involved the cultural adaptation of the questionnaire by using translation, back-translation, semantic comparison, idiomatic and conceptual equivalence, and validation through validity and reliability analyses and used a sample of 767 students in their second year of the Nursing Program.

Results: construct validity had a two-factor solution according to the varimax rotation method.

Knowledge management in Portuguese healthcare institutions.

Unlabelled: Knowledge management imposes itself as a pressing need for the organizations of several sectors of the economy, including healthcare.

Objective: to evaluate the perception of healthcare institution collaborators in relation to knowledge management in the institution where they operate and analyze the existence of differences in this perception, based on the institution's management model.

Method: a study conducted in a sample consisting of 671 collaborators from 10 Portuguese healthcare institutions with different models of management.

Nurses organizational commitment: the discriminating power of gender.

The study of the organizational commitment has risen interest within the organization's researchers, who have been trying to understand the intensity and stability of the individual's dedication to the organization. The interest that this construct has raised is based on the idea of the existence of an association of the organizational commitment with variables considered important to the increase of the organizational effectiveness and productivity. The aim of this article is to describe organizational commitment, in its affective, normative, and continuance dimensions, from nurse practitioners, and to analyze the differences of that commitment regarding gender.