to identify the factors that promote and threaten Hope in family caregivers of 2- to 3-year-old children with chronic conditions. qualitative study with 46 family caregivers of children between 2 and 3 years old with a chronic condition, discharged from two Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews guided by the Model for Intervention in Mutual Help Promoter of Hope.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed nursing education. Along with social isolation, the transition to distance education affected the well-being of students in several countries, particularly Portugal and Spain.
Objectives: To identify which variables are predictors of psychological well-being for Portuguese and Spanish nursing students during mandatory lockdowns.
Safe nursing staffing and patient safety are closely related. A systematic review of the literature was carried out, comparing the number of falls in elderly inpatients in medical-surgical wards with these staffing levels. A review of scientific articles, selected through a keyword search of several electronic databases, showed a direct, although not significant, association between improved nurse staffing and a decrease in the number of falls in elderly inpatients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Identify the theoretical concepts that have been used in the context of nursing care for hospitalized children.
Methods: Scoping review was carried out according to the PRISMA-ScR methodology. The research limitations included: primary studies dealing with the use of theoretical concepts of nursing in the provision of care to hospitalized children, access in full text, in Portuguese or English and published between 2000 and 2019.
Objective: To identify the available evidence in the scientific literature about the strategies or interventions used to promote hope in people with chronic diseases.
Method: An integrative literature review of literature published between 2009-2019, which was conducted in online browsers/databases: b-On, EBSCO, PubMed, Medline, ISI, SciELO, PsycINFO, Google Scholar. Forty-one studies were found, of which eight met the inclusion criteria.
Objective: To understand the experiences of interaction between teenage mothers and visiting nurses in the Young Mothers Caregivers Program.
Method: Qualitative research using the theoretical-methodological framework of Social Phenomenology, with phenomenological interviews with visiting nurses and teenage mothers.
Results: Three visiting nurses and nine teenage mothers participated.
Aims And Objectives: This study intended to contribute to the improvement of nursing care for both children and their parents and aimed to identify the best and worst experiences of school-aged children during hospitalisation.
Background: Child hospitalisation has traditionally been studied from the parent's perspective, but studies in which the child is the subject are scarce and mainly focus on to the hospitalisation experiences.
Design: A cross-sectional, observational and descriptive exploratory design was used, and STROBE reporting guidelines were followed.
Objective: To map the existing evidence on the causes of hospital discharge delays among adult clients.
Methods: A scoping review was conducted. We searched in the Ebscohost' plataform, in PubMed, and in grey literature, consulting the bibliographic references of the documents found.
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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSituation diagnosis using exploratory and descriptive scientific methodology (participant observation with descriptive statistical treatment) in order to identify nursing' practices in the area of health promotion during a nursing child health consultation. The 31 consultations observed (n = 31) showed that the majority of observations occurred in children younger than 2 years being the most discussed topic feed with predominant use of expository methodology. There was also little use of informational support and when used relate to the themes of security and nutrition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work main goal is to make a personal and professional reflection on the concept of hope and its integration into nursing care. It will uncover the contributions brought by a project on hope developed in Pediatrics. This project analysis results from the Nurse's use of hope related strategies in clinical decision making addressed to parents of children suffering from chronic illness, that suffer from an acute clinical condition or that became inpatients again.
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