UNLABELLED The paper addresses how nurses can contribute to the consolidation of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) within the Brazilian National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS), in the search for professional autonomy. OBJECTIVES To discuss the limitations and possibilities of nursing work in the FHS aimint at the consolidation of the SUS; evaluate the available nursing appointmen...

1 Paper extracted from Doctoral Dissertation “Professional autonomy of nurses and their social representations made by students of federal public universities in Rio de Janeiro: contributions to higher education in nursing”, presented to Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2 PhD, Adjunct Professor, Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Ri...

IMPORTANCE Controversy exists regarding whether the decision to pursue a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order should be grounded in an ethic of patient autonomy or in the obligation to act in the patient's best interest (beneficence). OBJECTIVE To explore how physicians' approaches to DNR decision making at the end of life are shaped by institutional cultures and policies surrounding patient autono...

BACKGROUND Effective interprofessional collaboration requires that team members share common perceptions and expectations of each other's roles. OBJECTIVE Describe and compare residents' and nurses' perceptions and expectations of their own and each other's professional roles in the context of an Internal Medicine ward. METHODS A convenience sample of 14 residents and 14 nurses volunteers f...

Teachers should be received specialized training, have higher education workers of professional quality. In order to develop the high quality teacher, teacher training curriculum should focus on professional skills. Our school has to strengthen the professional skills of teachers as a breakthrough in curriculum mode innovation, by enhancing practice teaching in the curriculum, strengthen the et...

Professional identity development, seen as essential in the transition from student to professional, needs to be owned by the universities in order to ensure a workforce appropriately prepared to provide global health care in the future. The development of professional identity involves a focus on who the student is becoming, as well as what they know or can do, and requires authentic learning ...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction is a critical factor in health care. Strong empirical evidence supports a causal relationship between job satisfaction, patient safety and quality of care. OBJECTIVE To determine the level of nurses' job satisfaction and its associated factors. METHOD A stratified random sample of 421 registered nurses working at a large hospital in Mashhad, Iran was surveyed. ...