Family home visiting is a widely accepted strategy used with disadvantaged families to mitigate the effects of poverty. However, gaps persist in knowledge of effective intervention approaches for home visiting relative to specific client risks such as parenting and psychosocial problems. The purpose of this study was to inductively create clusters from electronic health records of 484 public he...

This study aimed at analyzing the social representation of pregnant women about pregnancy, regarding care provided in nursing consultations during the prenatal period. A qualitative study conducted by semi-structured interviews, with fifteen pregnant women at the nursing consultations of the prenatal program regarding the care provided, analyzed by the ALCEST software. Three thematic axes were ...

This is a theoretical reflection on the clinical nursing care in mental health that is offered to the family. In view of having a family member with mental suffering, the family would delegate the care to that relative to the mental institution, thus there should be collaboration between the nursing and medical team to organize the environment and ensure family and social isolation. With the Ps...

The aim of the study was to compare professional competence of nurses who completed different bridging programmes. Forty professional nurses from two different bridging programmes participated in the study. The newly qualified registered nurses were all from the province of Kwazulu- Natal working in various hospitals. The researcher utilized Slater Nursing Competencies Rating Scale. The instrum...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate nursing care patients hospitalized
 during the postoperative period.
 Methods: This descriptive conducted with 526 who were hospitalized in Surgical Clinics a University Research Hospital province Erzurum between April 2013 and August 2014. Being collected form characteristics Nursing Care Assessment Inventory (NCAI), data evaluated as number...

An estimated 66,240 people in the United States are currently living with brain tumors. Most of these individuals are adults. The purpose of this first edition American Association of Neuroscience Nurses' Clinical Practice Guideline is to summarize what is currently known about brain tumors in adults and to provide the reader with nursing-specific recommendations based on supporting evidence fr...

The purpose of this first edition of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses' Clinical Practice Guideline is to summarize what is currently known about brain tumors in children and to provide the reader with nursing-specific recommendations based on supporting evidence from nursing and other disciplines. "Care of the Pediatric Patient With a Brain Tumor" includes information on epidemio...

OBJECTIVES to determine the psychosocial factors of work related to harm caused in the physical domain of the quality of life of nursing professionals working in a public emergency department. METHOD cross-sectional, descriptive study addressing 189 nursing professionals. The Job Stress Scale and the short version of an instrument from the World Health Organization to assess quality of life w...

This study investigated the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and associations with organizational, physical and psychosocial working conditions among 520 nursing personnel in Tehran, Iran. The results of the cross-sectional study on aids and different educational levels of nurses showed that the participants experienced 88% of MSDs in at least one body region during the past 12 mo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of burnout syndrome among nursing workers in intensive care units and establish associations with psychosocial factors. METHODS This descriptive study evaluated 130 professionals, including nurses, nursing technicians, and nursing assistants, who performed their activities in intensive care and coronary care units in 2 large hospitals in the city of Rio de...