Simulation-based training in Leprosy: development and validation of a scenario for community health workers.

Objectives: To build and validate a clinical simulation scenario designed to instruct community health workers (CHWs) in active leprosy case detection.

Methods: Methodological study involving the development of a simulated clinical scenario and content validation by experts. The Content Validity Index (CVI) was used to determine the level of agreement among the judging commitee, and a descriptive analysis of their recommendations was performed.

Clinical judgment and diagnostic reasoning of nursing students in clinical simulation.

Objectives: to determine the degree of association between clinical judgment and diagnostic reasoning of nursing students in clinical simulation.

Methods: this is a correlational research design using a quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 41 nursing students who assisted a patient with vaso-occlusive crisis in a high-fidelity clinical simulation setting.

Clinical Validation of the Portuguese Version of "Substance Addiction Consequences" Derived from the Nursing Outcomes Classification.

Our aim was to contribute to the clinical validation of "Substance Addiction Consequences" (SAC) derived from the nursing outcomes classification (NOC), and to analyse psychometric properties. To that purpose, we applied a methodological design. The study's outcome comprises 16 nursing-sensitive indicators, within four different consequence factors: psychological and family; physical and cognitive ability; self-care; economic and work.

Satisfaction with nursing care in drug users: the evolution of a scale.

Objectives: To identify the degree of satisfaction with nursing care, the significant variables and contribute to the evolution of the scale.

Methods: Descriptive, correlational, cross study, with 180 drug users. Data collected using the scale called "Satisfaction of users with the Nursing Health Center26", between February and December 2012 in three treatment units in the region of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, Portugal.

The parental care partnership in the view of parents of children with special health needs.

OBJECTIVE To understand how the care partnership was experienced by parents of children with special healthcare needs. METHOD Qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, carried out from December 2013 to February 2014. The method used was the narrative.