Generational diversity in nursing practice environments - scoping review.

Introduction: Generational diversity in nursing has introduced new challenges, for nurse managers and practice environments, in addressing both the nurses' and clients' needs and organizations' social and health policies. The organizational climate encourages professionals to preserve positive practice environments, which promotes a healthy coexistence between generations, respecting their distinctive characteristics and values, with the essential purpose of ensuring the team's effectiveness and the organization's success.

Objective: To map the available scientific evidence on the generational diversity of nurses in professional practice environments.

Improvement of contact lens-associated dry eye disease with the use of hydrogen peroxide.

Background: The dropout rate of contact lens users has not decreased significantly over the years. Despite continuous improvements in contact lens (CL) designs, materials and surface treatments, the number of CL users who drop out remains similar to the number of new CL users. The aim of this study is to analyse the improvement in contact lens-associated dry eye disease (CLADE), quantified with the OSDI questionnaire when changing maintenance system solution from multipurpose solution to hydrogen peroxide.

Nursing Practice Environments in Hospitals: A Comparative Study between Portugal and Brazil.

Assessing the elements of nursing practice environments is crucial, as investing in their improvement will enhance outcomes for nurses, patients, and organizations. Moreover, comparing practice environments from different countries improves the definition of cross-cutting guidelines that can be applied in various contexts. Thus, this study aims to evaluate nursing practice environments in hospitals in Portugal and Brazil.

The Impact of Comorbidity on Patient-Reported Outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis: A Systematic Literature Review.

Introduction: A systematic literature review was conducted with the aim to analyse the impact of comorbidity on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

Methods: A sensitive search strategy of the Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Library (up to March 2019) was applied to retrieve studies for inclusion in this systematic literature review. Abstracts of the ACR and EULAR scientific meetings were also searched.

The views and aspirations of young people with autism spectrum disorders and their provision in the new Education Health and Care plans in England.

The new special educational needs and disability legislation in England has introduced Education Health and Care plans as statutory documents for children with special educational needs, and has extended provision beyond compulsory education, placing transition in a compelling position. This policy recognises the need to include the views, wishes and aspirations of children and young people in the development of provision to cater for their needs. For young people with autism spectrum disorders and their families, transition to post-16 education and employment could be challenging.

Evaluating the quality of outcomes defined for children with Education Health and Care plans in England: A local picture with global implications.

Recently, the Children and Families Act 2014 was introduced in England to regulate provision for children with disabilities. According to this policy, statements of special educational needs were replaced with education, health and care plans, which should include high-quality, holistic and participation-focused outcomes to regulate provision; this change aligns with international recommendations regarding provision for children with disabilities. This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes defined for children with education, health and care plans in England.

"No policy is an island": how the ICF international classification system may support local education planning in England.

A crucial issue in special educational needs and disability policy and provision is the documentation of children's functioning, for which many countries have a statutory document. In England this is the education health and care plan. Recent research challenges the quality of these plans.

Beyond diagnosis: the relevance of social interactions for participation in inclusive preschool settings.

This study aims to explore the role of three specific factors within the child-environment interaction process - engagement, independence and social interactions - in influencing development and learning of children with disabilities in inclusive preschool settings. The main question is whether children can be categorised in homogenous groups based on engagement, independence and social interactions (proximal variables within a biopsychosocial framework of human development). The study also examined whether children with the same diagnosis would group together or separately, when trying to identify clusters of engagement, independence and social interactions, and additionally whether such clusters vary as a function of individual child characteristics, and/or as a function of structural and process characteristics of preschool environment.

[Hydrothorax as a complication of a ventricle peritoneal shunt. A case report].

The ventricle peritoneal (VP) shunt is commonly used in the treatment of hydrocephalus. It is a relatively simple and effective technique, but around 70% of the patients with a VP shunt have a complication in their lifetime. Most of these complications are due to infection or mechanical dysfunction.

Linking the early development instrument with the ICF-CY.

: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) provides a universal taxonomy to describe functioning. One of the most relevant applications of the ICF has been the development of code-sets for particular contexts/situations, such specific age groups. An important step in research around child assessment and intervention is to identify extant measures that can assess the essential functioning features for each age range.

Manganese-Mediated C-H Alkylation of Unbiased Arenes Using Alkylboronic Acids.

The alkylation of arenes is an essential synthetic step of interest not only from the academic point of view but also in the bulk chemical industry. Despite its limitations, the Friedel-Crafts reaction is still the method of choice for most of the arene alkylation processes. Thus, the development of new strategies to synthesize alkyl arenes is a highly desirable goal, and herein, we present an alternative method to those conventional reactions.

Identification of functional domains in developmental measures: An ICF-CY analysis of Griffiths developmental scales and Schedule of Growing Skills II.

Objective: This study aims to identify functioning categories of the International Classification of Functionality, Disability and Health for Children and Youth covered by the Griffiths developmental scales and the Schedule of Growing Skills II (SGS-II), as well as to analyse levels of agreement between coders when assigning its items to the ICF-CY classification system.

Methods: Items were linked to the ICF-CY following a content analysis procedure and the published linking rules. Agreement was calculated with Cohen's Kappa Coefficient.

Subcutaneous histiocytoid sweet syndrome associated with crohn disease in an adolescent.

We report a case of subcutaneous histiocytoid Sweet syndrome in an adolescent with Crohn disease. A 14-year-old boy with a 1-year history of ileocolonic and perianal Crohn disease, treated with infliximab and azathioprine, was admitted to the Pediatrics Department with malaise, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and fever (39°C) from 15 days ago. Two days later, he developed cutaneous lesions consisting of tender, erythematous, and violaceous papules and nodules scattered over his legs, soles, and upper extremities.

Matrix for assessment of activities and participation: Measuring functioning beyond diagnosis in young children with disabilities.

Objective: (i) To study the functioning patterns of young children with disabilities compared with typically developing children, using a new ICF-CY based tool--the Matrix for Assessment of Activities and Participation; (ii) study the factors that predict these functioning patterns.

Methods: The MAAP tool was administered to three groups of children: (i) with autism, (ii) with other types of disabilities and (iii) typically developing.

Results: Cluster analysis showed that children group according to the severity of their functioning profile and not according to the diagnostic category in which they were classified.

Linking autism measures with the ICF-CY: functionality beyond the borders of diagnosis and interrater agreement issues.

Purpose: This study aims to: (1) link measurements used in the diagnosis of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY) and (2) analyse issues relating with interrater agreement within this process.

Method: Three instruments for ASD diagnosis were linked with the ICF-CY using deductive content analysis.

Results: Correspondences between items' content and ICF-CY dimensions were identified for all ICF-CY components, except for environmental factors.

Base- and metal-free C-H direct arylations of naphthalene and other unbiased arenes with diaryliodonium salts.

A novel metal-free direct arylation of unbiased arenes with diaryliodonium triflates in a process where the use of solvents and additives is not required has been established.

Identification of core functioning features for assessment and intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Purpose: Framed within a biopsychosocial approach, this study aimed to identify the main functionality dimensions that experts in the field of child development and child psychopathology considered as essential in the assessment-intervention process with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), using the International Classification of Functionality, Disability and Health for Children and Youth.

Method: The Delphi method was used to obtain consensus among experts regarding the essential functionality features for the rehabilitation of young children with ASD. Therefore, web-based three-round survey was developed.

Distribution of nitric oxide synthases and nitrotyrosine in the kidney of spontaneously hypertensive rats.

Objectives: To study the cellular distribution and the expression of the major isoforms of NO synthase (NOS) and of nitrotyrosine in the kidney in spontaneous hypertension.

Design And Methods: We have studied by immunohistochemistry the location of the endothelial (eNOS), neuronal (nNOS) and inducible (iNOS) isoforms and nitrotyrosine in kidney slices from normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) using specific antibodies. In order to quantify the expression of these proteins, we have analyzed dissected renal cortical and medullary sections by means of Western blot.