Validation of the Nursing Diagnosis "Labile Emotional Control" in Traumatic Brain Injury.

Objective: To validate the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis "labile emotional control" in traumatic brain injury (TBI) outpatients.

Design: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative study.

Methods: Thirty-one Brazilian nurses who were experts in the area of TBI answered a semistructured questionnaire on the diagnosis "labile emotional control" based on NANDA-International (NANDA-I) Taxonomy II (2015-2017) using a Likert-type scale to rate the 13 defining characteristics.

[Occupational stressors among nurses working in urgent and emergency care units].

The study aimed to assess occupational stressors among nurses working in urgent and emergency care facilities. It is a descriptive research developed in two public hospitals of different complexity degrees, with 49 nurses. Data were collected from June to September 2011.