The influence of nursing leadership styles on the outcomes of patients, professionals and institutions: An integrative review.

Aim: This review was conducted to map leadership styles that positively impact patients, professionals and institutions.

Background: Leadership is a topic widely studied because it is a fundamental skill in establishing favourable work environments, in addition to enabling nurses to influence their team in the search for better results. Therefore, a synthesis of the various studies produced to date is essential for nurses, managers and researchers to understand the different styles of leadership that positively influence organizational results, so they can choose the style they deem most appropriate.

Safe surgeries: elaboration and validation of a checklist for outpatient surgical procedures.

Purpose: To prepare and validate the content of a checklist in order to assure the safety for outpatient surgical procedures.

Method: Methodological research, performed between May and December 2018, as per three stages: 1) preparation of the checklist; 2) validation of content by five judges; and 3) preliminary testing of the instrument. The concord, among the judges, was measured by the Content Validity Index and the values over 0.