207 results match your criteria: "Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC)[Affiliation]"
BMC Med Educ
December 2024
School of Nursing, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran.
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of The Bullying Behaviors in Nursing Education (BBNE) scale among Iranian nursing students.
Method: In this cross-sectional study, 366 undergraduate nursing students from two public universities in Iran were selected through convenience sampling from April to June 2023. The BBNE scale was translated into Persian, and its content and construct validity, internal consistency and reliability were evaluated.
JBI Evid Synth
December 2024
Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA:E).
Objective: This scoping review aims to map the strategies used during the communication of bad news to families of unexpected and sudden death victims from the perspective of those receiving the news.
Introduction: The strategies used in communicating a person's death to their family, especially in unexpected and sudden situations, can have a profound impact on the grief management process. This communication is often carried out by a health professional (doctor, nurse, or paramedic), but may also be carried out by a police officer, depending on the context in which the situation has occurred (in or out of hospital).
Nurs Philos
January 2025
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto (UP), Porto, Portugal.
Through technical rationality, healthcare professionals address instrumental problems by applying the theory and technique arising from scientific knowledge. Nevertheless, the divergent situations of practice characterised by uncertainty, instability, and uniqueness place nurses in a positivist epistemological dilemma. Decision-making under uncertainty is a challenge that nurses face in clinical practice daily.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealthcare (Basel)
October 2024
LiveWell-Research Centre for Active Living and Wellbeing, School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, 5300-121 Bragança, Portugal.
Caregivers of patients with heart disease may often feel physically, emotionally, and psychologically overwhelmed by their role. The analysis of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) components and caregivers' needs suggests that some interventions may benefit them. Therefore, this study aimed to identify a consensus on the CR components targeting caregivers of patients with heart disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Nurs
December 2024
Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Coimbra, Portugal.
Health Expect
October 2024
Patient & Community Partnership for Education, Office of UBC Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Nurs Rep
August 2024
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança-Escola Superior de Saúde, LiveWell-Research Center for Active Living and Wellbeing, 5300-121 Bragança, Portugal.
Healthcare (Basel)
August 2024
Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Health Research Network (CINTESIS@RISE), Nursing School of Porto (ESEP), 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
Blood culture is crucial for accurate and timely bacteremia diagnosis and guide antibiotic therapy. However, during culture sampling, contamination can occur, resulting in misdiagnosis, unnecessary antibiotic exposure, and prolonged hospitalization. This before-and-after intervention study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a multimodal intervention in preventing blood culture contamination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZ Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes
September 2024
CINTESIS@RISE, Nursing School of Porto (ESEP), Porto, Portugal.
BMC Geriatr
August 2024
Nursing School of Lisbon (ESEL), Lisboa 1600-096, Portugal.
Background: The growing aging trend associated with a higher prevalence of chronic illnesses is increasing the demand for the development of person-centered practice in specific care settings. Knowing the person's perception of the care and the care experience is essential to improving inpatient care toward person-centeredness. This study aims to characterize the perceptions of person-centered practice of hospitalized older adults with chronic illness at a Portuguese inpatient hospital department.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Philos
October 2024
The Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA:E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Coimbra, Portugal.
Occupational Health Nursing (OHN) has followed a complex path to build and strengthen its theoretical basis. Starting with Public Health core principles, theories were shaped by the dualism of person worker and working environment, where sometimes the centre of the thought was given to the latter and other times to the former. The problem was not much on such conflict but on the definition of the correct OHN focus and whether genuine nursing knowledge was being applied.
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August 2024
Nursing Department, Steyer School of Health Professions, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Electronic address:
Aims: To explore a) pre-registration students' self-perceptions of clinical leadership behaviours and b) differences in students' self-perceptions of leadership behaviours between two countries (UK and Israel).
Background: Effective leadership has been associated with high-quality and compassionate care provision in health and social care contexts. This has led to a common acceptance that teaching leadership in nursing education is essential if students are to develop competencies in this area.
Int J Orthop Trauma Nurs
August 2024
Rheumatology Department, Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Portugal. Electronic address:
Background: Providing adequate care for the person with a fragility fracture is essential to prevent recurrences. A key strategy involves training by improving nursing care in the fields of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. However, in Portugal, there is no report on the level of knowledge of nurses, nor experimental studies on how to improve it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Nurs Knowl
July 2024
The Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA:E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Rua Dr. José Alberto Reis, Coimbra, Portugal.
Objective: Discuss the label "impaired foot health" to be considered a problem-focused nursing diagnosis according to the taxonomy of NANDA-I.
Methods: Discussion article based on literature reviews and observational studies based on the authors' PhD ongoing research about foot health among nursing students and professionals.
Findings: Attending to the definition of nursing diagnosis and the scope of nursing practice internationally, several human responses and contexts should be considered, opening new opportunities for NANDA-I completeness.
Nurs Rep
July 2024
School of Health Science Campus 2, Polytechnic of Leiria, Morro do Lena, Alto do Vieiro, Apartado 4137, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
Background: A robust safety culture is essential for ensuring high-quality healthcare delivery. From a nursing perspective, especially among critical patients, it fosters ongoing improvement by highlighting areas that need attention.
Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the perception of patient safety culture among nurses within the critical care environment.
Nurs Rep
July 2024
School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria, Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology-ciTechCare, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.
A stroke is a time-sensitive emergency, so diagnosing and treating the victim promptly is extremely important. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the influence of the Stroke Code Protocol's activation on the door-to-computed-tomography (door-to-CT) time and determine whether factors such as previous Modified Rankin Scale (mRS), age, and gender influence its activation. A retrospective study was conducted in a Medical-Surgical Emergency Department in the centre of Portugal from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Rep
July 2024
Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), 3046 Coimbra, Portugal.
(1) Background: Medication adherence is influenced by a variety of intricate factors, presenting hurdles for nurses working to improve it among adults with chronic conditions. Pinpointing the reasons for non-adherence is crucial for customizing interventions. The objective of this quality improvement project was to improve medication adherence among adults with chronic diseases in primary healthcare by promoting evidence-based practices, identifying barriers and facilitators to compliance, and developing strategies to ensure optimal adherence through engaging the nursing team, enhancing knowledge, and evaluating the effectiveness of the implemented strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Rep
June 2024
Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria, 2411-090 Leiria, Portugal.
Medication errors have serious consequences and high costs for the patient and the system. The treatment process and the care required for critically ill patients are complex, and these patients are more vulnerable to errors and potential consequences. A scoping review using the JBI methodology was conducted across PubMed, CINAHL, and MEDLINE databases and reported by the PRISMA-ScR guidelines to explore strategies that can mitigate medication errors by nurses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJBI Evid Implement
November 2024
Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Coimbra, Portugal.
Introduction: Formal nursing leaders play an important role in promoting and sustaining evidence-based practice (EBP) in the clinical context, particularly by creating a conducive environment for change and increasing clinicians' awareness of the positive results of EBP. However, nursing leaders encounter both barriers and facilitators in their work; therefore, it is important to understand their perceptions on this topic.
Objective: The objective of this study was to understand the perceptions of formal nursing leaders about barriers and facilitators for EBP.
JBI Evid Synth
July 2024
Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Coimbra, Portugal.
Objective: This scoping review will map the available evidence on communication protocols for breaking bad news to adult patients and their families in health care.
Introduction: Breaking bad news to adult patients and their families is a challenging task for health care professionals. To address these challenges, communication protocols have been developed to support health care professionals in breaking bad news in a compassionate and effective manner while respecting each patient's individuality.
Front Public Health
July 2024
NOVA National School of Public Health, Public Health Research Centre, CHRC, REAL, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Introduction: Health literacy among migrants is a matter of public health and social justice. Migrants from diverse backgrounds encounter challenges such as linguistic barriers, cultural disparities, restricted access to health services, and heterogeneous migration statuses. Addressing these challenges requires careful consideration of their unique experiences and needs to promote equitable health outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical trials are essential for evaluating the efficacy and safety of new treatments and health interventions. However, while pharmacological trials are well-established, non-pharmacological trials face unique challenges related to their complexity and difficulties such as recruitment, retention, intervention standardisation, selection of outcome measures and blinding of clinicians, participants and data collectors. This communication paper describes the objectives, implementation steps and bylaws of the 'Trials foR heAlth Care inTerventIONs' Network (TRACTION), established by an international multiprofessional task force of experts to foster high-quality non-pharmacological research, ultimately improving patient care and healthcare outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJBI Evid Synth
October 2024
Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Coimbra, Portugal.
Nurs Rep
June 2024
Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), 3000-232 Coimbra, Portugal.
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose a significant global threat, particularly in developing regions such as Southeast Asia. International bodies emphasize the role of formal undergraduate training in the prevention and control of HAIs. To address this, we aimed to explore the perceptions of Southeast Asian nursing students regarding a novel educational approach developed by a European-Southeast Asian project consortium.
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