Quality of nursing care: instrument development and validation.

Objectives:: to describe the development and validation process of a scale to measure the nurses' perception of the activities that contribute to nursing care quality.

Method:: methodological study based on a literature review, the opinion of experts and the experience of study investigators. An instrument was designed containing six dimensions and 25 items, applied as a questionnaire to 775 nurses from a hospital in northern Portugal, from May to July 2014.

Evaluation of the online management course from the perspective of former students.

Objective To evaluate the online course from the perspective of e-learners as well as the relation between variables. Method A quantitative, descriptive and exploratory study. Results After three years, the satisfaction rates in the three listed categories presented an average rate higher than 75%.