A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis has become a key tool used by businesses for strategic planning. Scholars have conducted SWOT research over six decades. However, collective understanding of remains vague. This study accessed, analyzed, synthesized the literature, allowing new theoretical perspectives frameworks to emerge. Using an integrative literature revie...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess previous research on conditions for managers’ learning and development in daily work practices how such may influence their sustainability also propose a concept heuristic model that reconceptualizes expands the theoretical foundations generated studies at work. Design/methodology/approach This based an integrative literature review. search identif...

Abstract Empathy presupposes the ability and, most importantly, willingness to understand others and put oneself in their place. Hence, health personnel are expected be more empathetic able read world around them with a humanized, critical, reflexive look. This integrative review examines studies on teaching empathy undergraduate programs published last five years. A total of 27 were selected f...

The objective was to analyze the scientific collection on nursing care with the skin of hospitalized newborns. In order to reach the objective, an integrative review was conducted. The search for primary studies was performed in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE, BDENF and PUBMED. The included studies (n=10) were grouped into thematic categories: risk factors for skin lesions in hospitalized newbor...

The prison populations is considered vulnerable due heterogeneity of confinement, whose predisposing factors are the lifestyle of individuals and prison conditions. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of HIV and associated factors reported in studies conducted in prisons in Brazil. An integrative review was carried out, with a search in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE and SCIELO, inclu...

In this integrative review, current research on the effectiveness of intravenous (IV) securement devices is described and practical implications for evidence-based practice in IV care are provided.

Methods A draft measure was developed based on an in-depth literature review of the concept of human warmth by a multidisciplinary expert group working in integrative medicine. Sixteen cognitive probing interviews were conducted to examine how patients from integrative and conventional medicine perceive and interpret this new measure and to identify potential problems. A content analysis of the...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death. As the main treatment of CHD, modern medicine has improved dramatically in recent years. Although researches of TCM and integrative medicine on CHD are witnessed encouraging progress in many respects, the role TCM playing in the prevention and treatment of CHD has been unprecedentedly challenged under such circumstance of the very fast...