* Article originally written in European Portuguese. 1 Master’s Degree in Education Sciences. Doctor’s Degree in Nursing. Adjunct Professor of the Nursing School of Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal. [email protected] 2 Doctor’s Degree in Nursing. Full Professor of the Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, University of São Paulo School of Nursing. Director of the Nursing Department of the Universi...

There is little empirical evidence evaluating the effects of recent, widespread changes in nurse executive roles and nursing management structures on the costs of patient care. This retrospective cross-sectional study examined the relationship between line authority for nurse staffing and patient care costs (total, nursing, and non-nursing cost) using data from 124 Department of Veterans Affair...

BACKGROUND Community-dwelling frail elderly have an increased need for effective medication management to reside in their homes and delay or avoid admission to nursing homes. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the impact of a medication management system on nursing home admission within the community-dwelling frail elderly. METHODS This prospective cohort study compared nu...

introduction: nowadays students’ opinion is considered as a necessary factor to evaluate quality in universities. this study was performed to evaluate the nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study. methods: the research population in this study consists of all the students of nursing studying at the second to fourth year of university (72 students). the data were collected from ...

OBJECTIVE To elaborate an interpretative model for the governance of professional nursing practice in a hospital setting. METHOD A mixed methods study with concurrent triangulation strategy, using data from a cross-sectional study with 106 nurses and a Grounded Theory study with 63 participants. The quantitative data were collected through the Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised and underw...

Management of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) requires accurate assessment and evaluation, appropriate treatment strategies, and timely nursing interventions (e.g., monitoring, bleeding prevention, patient education). The overview of ITP in the current article reviews its etiology and provides updates about medical management and key components of nursing care.