Psychological Vulnerability Indices and the Adolescent's Good Mental Health Factors: A Correlational Study in a Sample of Portuguese Adolescents.

Background: Psychological vulnerability (PV) indicates the individual’s inability to adapt to stressful situations. Adolescents experience negative impacts on their future mental health if they do not acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to have good mental health during their developmental stage. Aim: To compare the PV index among the three stages of adolescence and to explore the factors involved in good mental health, including the relationship between adolescents’ PV indices and sociodemographic variables, and the relationship between adolescents’ PV index and their knowledge of the factors that characterize good mental health.

The Teaching and Learning Cultural Competence in a Multicultural Environment (CCMEn) Model.

Background: Within the European higher education context, students and lecturers are encouraged to engage in teaching and learning activities abroad. This frequently involves using a second language and being exposed to students and lecturers from culturally different backgrounds.

Objective: To design a model for teaching and learning cultural competence in a multicultural environment (CCMEn).

Nursing students' experience of learning cultural competence.

Introduction: European societies are rapidly becoming multicultural. Cultural diversity presents new challenges and opportunities to communities that receive immigrants and migrants, and highlights the need for culturally safe healthcare. Universities share a responsibility to build a fair and equitable society by integrating cultural content in the nursing curricula.

Nursing Lecturers' Perception and Experience of Teaching Cultural Competence: A European Qualitative Study.

Cultural competence is an essential component in providing effective and culturally responsive healthcare services, reducing health inequalities, challenging racism in health care and improving patient safety, satisfaction and health outcomes. It is thus reasonable that undergraduate nursing students can develop cultural competency through education and training. The aim of this paper was to investigate nursing lecturers' perception and experience of teaching cultural competence in four undergraduate nursing programs.

A new approach to the prevention of nursing care rationing: Cross-sectional study on positive orientation.

Aims: To assess the effects of nurses' life satisfaction and life orientation on the level of nursing care rationing.

Background: Best practice within human resource management argues that striving for a positive orientation within the workforce may create a friendly work environment that could promote the employee's development and job satisfaction in a health care organisation.

Methods: A total of 547 nurses were enrolled and assessed using three self-report scales: the Basel Extent of Rationing of Nursing Care-R (BERCA-R), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and the Life Orientation Test (LOT-R).

Good practices to reduce unfinished nursing care: An integrative review.

Aim: To identify evidence of good practice interventions aimed at reducing unfinished nursing care in the hospital context.

Background: Unfinished nursing care is a common problem related to nursing practice, essentially due to time scarcity. There is not much research on how to deal with it and on how to develop good practices that can mitigate the unfinished nursing care.

Job Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being Among Midwives: Analysis of a Multinational Cross-Sectional Survey.

Introduction: There is a considerable amount of empirical evidence to indicate a positive association between an employee's subjective well-being and workplace performance and job satisfaction. Compared with nursing research, there is a relative lack of consistent scientific evidence concerning midwives' subjective well-being and its determinants related to domains of job satisfaction. The purpose of the study was to examine the association between the domains of job satisfaction and components of subjective well-being in hospital midwives.

Job satisfaction and leaving intentions of midwives: analysis of a multinational cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To investigate the relationship between turnover intentions and job satisfaction among hospital midwives from seven countries and to determine how the related variables differ between countries.

Background: Studies investigating professional turnover and job satisfaction among midwives are limited in scope.

Method: A cross-sectional descriptive survey was used to investigate the intended turnover and job satisfaction relationship among 1190 hospital midwives in European and Asian countries.

Temperament in Portuguese university students as measured by TEMPS-A: implications for professional choice.

Background: The structure of temperament displays subaffective traits as attributes of adaptive value. There are few studies on how different professions compare on temperaments. Our aim was to examine the relationship between the choices of Portuguese students in their fields of study, and their respective temperaments.