Self-esteem of nursing undergraduate students

This study evaluates the self-esteem of undergraduate students of nursing, that through a workshop developed mechanisms for improving their self-esteem, considering that this is the most propitious time for students to multiply health care actions. Methodology: the research was carried out with 156 undergraduate students of the third year. Socio-drama techniques of Neurolinguistics were used and the evaluation was done according to Minayo. It was possible to observe that students usually confuse self-esteem and self-image, and that both are stereotyped for for men and women. As nurses are always worried about the client/patient's life quality, they neglect themselves. In this case, the Workshops were essential for the students to rescue interior knowledge about themselves, and to realize that in order to take good care of clients/patients, they must be physically and psychologically healthy.     

Genesis of the professional-patient relationship in early practical experience: qualitative and quantitative study

CONTEXT: As a rule, undergraduate medical students experience everyday work in health care as spectators. They are not allowed to participate in real-life interaction between professionals and patients. We report on an exception to this rule. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine undergraduate students' experiences in developing their first professional-patient relationships on the basis of being responsible for the care of patients. METHODS: The study involved 2 cohorts (2002 and 2003) of medical students, amounting to 503 students. They had all worked in hospitals and/or nursing homes for 4 weeks at the end of their first year of study. Subsequent to this, they produced a case presentation of experiences in this work they perceived as important. These important experiences were the focus of our analysis. RESULTS: Five categories of important experiences were identified. Four of the 5 categories are logically interrelated in that they collectively cover the range of players involved in a caring situation and provide student insights into the interaction between these players. The fifth category is a heterogeneous residue category. Analysis and quantification of these 5 categories reveals a general similarity: students, to an overwhelming degree, are concerned with developing patient-centred care. DISCUSSION: If they are given real responsibility for patient care, undergraduate medical students, of their own accord, tend to develop patient-centred relationships in accordance with the principles of the new professionalism, sometimes in opposition to institutional and/or collegial constraints.     

Construction of a nursing care concept: contribution for undergraduate nursing education

The purpose of this research was to construct a nursing care concept, based on the understanding of nurses and students from an undergraduate course. This is a qualitative study. A focus group was used to construct a nursing care concept for use in undergraduate teaching. The research was carried out at Faculdade Católica Rainha do Sert?o in Quixadá, CE, Brazil, from August to December 2007. Three categories emerged from the process: the understanding of the care concept, nursing care and the meaning of care. The constructed concept involved attitudes of awareness, ethics, zeal, solidarity and love, which express a "know-how" based on science, art, ethics and esthetics, directed at individual, family and community needs.     

Nursing students' perceptions on HIV serodiscordant partnerships

This qualitative research aimed to identify undergraduate nursing students' perceptions on mixed-HIV-status couples. Social Representation Theory was used to get to know how the students feel, think and act towards HIV/aids serodiscordance. Six fourth-year nursing students were interviewed. Participants were between 20 and 26 years old. The "Projective Thematic Drawing" and a structure interview were used for data collection. Data were analyzed by means of "Thematic Content Analysis". The obtained data revealed the students' perceptions on serodiscordant couples. This study triggered future reflections/discussions on health education for mixed-HIV-status couples and nursing care.     

护士对骨科病人疼痛知识掌握的现状调查分析及对策

目的了解骨科护士对骨科病人疼痛知识掌握程度。方法采用"骨科病人疼痛知识调查量表"对137名在岗骨科护士进行了问卷调查。结果疼痛知识问卷平均分仅有41.16分;受教育程度、年龄、职称以及是否参加过疼痛知识的培训班的护士得分没有统计学差异,但不同的年龄段、护龄段和不同的工作医院的护士得分有显著差异。结论大多数骨科护士缺乏足够的骨科病人疼痛护理知识,建议加强骨科护士对骨科病人疼痛管理知识的培训及在校护生的疼痛知识基础课程的教育,鼓励护士积极参与疼痛管理实践,共同促进疼痛管理实践标准化。     

Work process of professional nurses: perceptions of undergraduate nursing falculty

The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of undergraduate nursing faculty about the work processes of professional nurses, particularly, nursing care and competency - from ways of learning, knowing, and doing, which were developed during their undergraduate nursing education. Focus groups among fifteen undergraduate faculty members were conducted to collect data for this qualitative study. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Six categories have emerged: Technical skills are fundamental to provide nursing care; Complexities of technical skills and nursing care; Differences in the process of providing nursing care; Competency from ways of learning, knowing, and doing are essential for providing nursing care; Learning to be a nurse is understood by different perspectives; The need of undergraduate faculty to discuss about nursing technical care.     

Organ donation and bioethics: building an interface

This study sought to identify the attitude of nursing undergraduate students concerning organ donation and their knowledge about the current law of organ donation. The last-year nursing undergraduate students from two Colleges in Goiania (GO) were approached. 45 students answered a questionnaire. A model of content analysis and bioethical principles was used to analyze the answers. The "Maintenance of the life" reveal willingness of subjects to donate organs to help others to stay alive. The "Unreliability" of health professionals for removing organs is associated to the feeling of great vulnerability. There is "Non Information" concerning the legislation in force. These results allow concluding that the donation of organs among subjects cannot be configured as an autonomous action.     

Student Nurses' Attitudes toward a Career in Community Health

Changes in the practice of health care delivery to include a greater focus on community-based care is becoming an issue of increasing importance throughout the Western World. In Australia, factors such as a reduction in the average patient stay within acute care hospitals and the allocation of additional funds to community resources presents evidence of this change in focus. Nurses, who form the largest professional group involved with health care delivery, must by necessity become an important part of such change. A significantly larger number of nurses will be required to work in the community in the future. Despite this trend, there is a paucity of research examining the attitudes of student nurses towards a possible career in the area of community health. In order to address this deficit, a longitudinal study examining the career preferences of undergraduate nursing students is being conducted. The study sample comprises undergraduate nursing students from 9 universities in the State of Victoria. The results of stage 1 of this research are presented in this paper. The findings indicate that at the commencement of their educational program, undergraduate student nurses do not have a strong understanding of or interest in the area of community health nursing. A preference for employment within a hospital environment, particularly in the highly technical areas, and in the care of mothers and babies, is evident. The implication of these findings for the future of community health nursing is briefly discussed.     

Performance of nursing students in the intramuscular administration of drugs

The goal of the present study was to compare the performance of two groups of nursing undergraduate students, submitted to two different teaching methods, in their ability to perform the intramuscular injection on clients needing the procedure. Both, control (CG) and experimental group (EG) (n = 35 each) were submitted to traditional method and instructional method respectively, according to the methodological procedure described by Nogueira (1995). The performance of the students was evaluated by a nurse who had no knowledge of the group each student belong. The nurse used the "check-list" in order to evaluate the performance of student. The results indicate that the time spent by the students of each group was approximately the same i.e. 9.4 min for CG and 9.3 for EG. The students of the control group showed ordinary performance (42.9%), good performance (48.9%) and very good performance (8.5%) whereas those of the EG showed ordinary performance (5.7%), good performance (60%) and very good performance (34.3%). The present results shows that the students are responsible by their own learning, motivating us to use new teaching methods on nursing undergraduate course.     

Evaluation of patients with chronic pain in nursing consultations: Proposal of an instrument for nursing diagnosis

This article describes the tool used to collect data for nursing evaluation of patients with chronic pain patient in the League Against Pain of the University of S?o Paulo at Ribeir?o Preto Faculty of Medicine, Brazil. The aim is to identify the patients' nursing care needs. The nursing diagnoses proposed by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) were used to point out the patients' nursing care needs. The Human Response Patterns, in which the nursing diagnoses are classified by NANDA, were used as a framework to construct the tool. The way it is used by nursing undergraduate students, members of the League Against Pain, is also described.     

Measuring the effect of interprofessional problem-based learning on the attitudes of undergraduate health care students

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to measure the improvement in attitudes towards interprofessional collaboration of undergraduate health care students who have a single module of interprofessional problem-based learning (PBL) using real patients as triggers integrated into their curricula. DESIGN: A dedicated module, consisting of 5 PBL seminars, was integrated into the undergraduate medical, nursing and physiotherapy curricula at the participating institutions. Seminar groups consisted of students from a single profession in the control group, and of evenly distributed students from the participating professions in the intervention group. The Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale was used to measure improvements in attitudes towards interprofessional co-operation. Patients, faculty members and students were included in the evaluation of the interprofessional module and their comments examined for indications of adverse effects of the use of patients in this setting. RESULTS: A total of 177 students were recruited into the study and assigned to 1 of 16 seminar groups, all of which attended the complete module, 8 in control mode and 8 in intervention mode. Statistically significant improvements could be identified in the overall attitudes of male students in the intervention group, and in attitudes pertaining to the competence and autonomy of individuals in one's own profession in the intervention group as a whole. No significant improvements were detected in the control group. No adverse effects of the use of real patients came to light. CONCLUSIONS: The integration of an interprofessional educational module that requires limited student and faculty time in undergraduate health care curricula may be proven to have an effect. The Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale may be suitable for measuring such effect. Real patients may continue to contribute to education in this setting.     

Competencies for educational activities in nursing

The focus of this study is the interface between nursing education and nursing care in its educative dimension. OBJECTIVE: To develop a profile of competencies for nursing care education from the perspective of the subjects involved. METHOD: Historical and dialectical materialism was used as the theoretical and methodological framework. Competence was addressed as the conceptual category, as defined by Perrenoud, based on healthcare concepts and on instrumental knowledge as advocated by Mendes-Gon?alves. RESULTS: the analysis of empirical material resulted in the creation of 10 core competencies for nursing education activities. CONCLUSION: The need to give a new meaning to education action from the perspective of Popular Education implies the development of pedagogical opportunities during their undergraduate studies in order to enable students to use their knowledge and skills to develop a dialogical attitude of recognition of the subjects of nursing care.     

实习护生手卫生知识认知及执行依从性影响因素的调查

目的了解大学本科实习护生对手卫生知识的认知情况及手卫生依从性的相关影响因素,为相关部门采取措施提高护生手卫生依从性提供参考。方法采用问卷调查法,对67名大学本科实习护生进行手卫生知识和执行依从性影响因素的调查。结果大学本科实习护生手卫生知识得分(19.01±2.16)分,护生手卫生指征、手卫生相关知识得分和手卫生总分与注册护士比较,差异无统计学意义;大学本科护生认为影响其执行手卫生的主要因素是清洁剂、消毒剂刺激皮肤,引起皮肤干燥(98.51%)、工作忙,没有足够的时间(62.69%)、未对洗手或擦手的效果进行有效的监控(62.69%)等。结论大学本科实习护生对手卫生有普遍较高的认知,但依从性不够,需要采取措施提高实习护生手卫生意识,完善手卫生基础设施,加强手卫生监管。     

The influence of non-verbal communication in nursing care

The present study is linked to the Center for Researching and Testing in Nursing at the Nursing School Alfredo Pinto - UNIRIO, and it started during the development of a monograph. The object of the study is the meaning of non-verbal communication under the optics of the nursing course undergraduates. The study presents the following objectives: to determine how non-verbal communication is comprehended among college students in nursing and to analyze in what way that comprehension influences nursing care. The methodological approach was qualitative, while the dynamics of sensitivity were applied as strategy for data collection. It was observed that undergraduate students identify the relevance and influence of non-verbal communication along nursing care, however there is a need in amplifying the knowledge of non-verbal communication process prior the implementation of nursing care.     

Preparation for palliative care: teaching about death,dying and bereavement in UK medical schools 2000-2001

AIM: To examine changes in formal teaching about death, dying and bereavement in undergraduate medical education in UK medical schools. METHODS: A short questionnaire based on one used in 2 previous surveys in 1983 and 1994 was sent to all UK medical schools. FINDINGS: All schools with clinical teaching provided teaching in this area. The amount of such teaching varied widely and appeared in the curriculum in a variety of manners, times and places. Specialists in palliative medicine, general practitioners and nurse specialists were most frequently involved in teaching, with decreased involvement of non-practitioners since 1983. Most schools covered a wide range of topics, with all addressing attitudes towards death and dying and symptom relief in advanced terminal illness. Some schools used terminally ill patients directly in their teaching and most included hospice participation. As the surveys conducted in 1983 and 1994 indicated, many schools do not address the evaluation of palliative care learning. ANALYSIS: Changes in undergraduate medical education, especially in terms of more integrated curricula, mean that for many schools, palliative care teaching is integrated into learning in other areas. This should help students apply their palliative care learning to other contexts. The increase in teaching about the management of physical symptoms that has occurred since the previous surveys seems to reflect the establishment of palliative medicine as a speciality and the current emphases within palliative care practice in the UK. CONCLUSION: The preparation for palliative care work provided for current undergraduate medical students appears to be of a better quality than that provided in 1983.     

Practical nursing training in the University School of Nursing of the Community of Madrid. Opinion of students and health professionals. Qualitative study with discussion groups

BACKGROUND: In the nursing schools, the contrast between what is taught in the classrooms and what is practiced at the health care centers usually creates a great deal of confusion on the part of the students. The objective of this research is to ascertain the opinion of the students and of the professionals at the health care centers where they are doing their training with regard thereto in order to detect their problems and see what differences exist between primary and specialized care. METHODS: This research was conducted throughout the first half of 2000 employing qualitative methodology, by means of four discussion groups comprised of students, former students, primary care training advisors and nursing professionals at the hospitals where the students of the school in question are doing their nursing training. The initial involvement employed was indirect. RESULTS: The comments of the nursing students and of their training advisors with regard to the practice nursing during the diploma studies reveal dissatisfaction on the part of both of these groups. In all of the groups point out anxiety as the leading factor involved in their teaching as well as learning activities and during professional training. The lack of identification as a group of professionals seems to be related to the lack of recognition on the part of the others, the demand for a degree being granted for their college studies and for the setting up of specialities would contribute to their social recognition and, as a result thereof, to their identification as a professional group. CONCLUSIONS: Until a solution is provided to the anxiety which the nursing professionals feel with regard to their professional practice, which they pass on to their students during nursing training, it will not be possible to achieve a higher degree of satisfaction with nursing training experiences either on the part of the training advisors or on the part of the students.     

自我管理能力和认知需求在本科护生自主学习能力与领导能力间的链式中介效应

目的探讨自我管理能力和认知需求在本科护生自主学习能力与领导能力间的链式中介作用。方法 课题组于2022年3月-5月采用《护理专业大学生自主学习能力测评量表》《大学生自我管理能力调查问卷》《大学生认知需求量表》《临床护士领导力自评量表》对陕西省5所医学院校854名本科护生进行调查。采用SPSS 26.0软件对数据进行统计分析。结果本科护生领导能力与自主学习能力、自我管理能力和认知需求均呈显著正相关(均P<0.05)。本科护生自主学习能力对领导能力的总间接效应为0.039,其中:自我管理能力的中介作用为0.014，占总效应的18.92%；认知需求的中介作用为0.009，占总效应的12.16%；自我管理能力和认知需求的链式中介作用为0.016，占总效应的21.62%。结论自我管理能力与认知需求在本科护生自主学习能力与领导能力间的中介效应成立。护理教育者应关注自主学习能力弱的护生，加强其自我管理能力，增强其认知需求，以进一步提高其领导能力。     

Redefinition of School Nursing Practice: Integrating the Developmentally Disabled

Results of three needs assessment studies which had the purpose of providing direction for school nursing practices which would address some of the unmet health needs of today's children and adolescents are reported. Results provide specific examples of how school nurses have not been meeting school health needs through an analysis of one specific need -- integrating the developmentally disabled into the regular school setting. Data were collected from parents, teachers and other supportive personnel in schools by interview and survey methods. Environmental assessments were conducted and the policies and procedures governing health-related activities required by special need students were reviewed. The data indicated that for developmentally disabled students, nurses were not performing the commonly accepted functions of nursing and were not transposing their knowledge of the components of health care ordinarily provided in health care settings to care provided in nontraditional health care settings. Examples of nursing functions and the activities needed to fulfill those functions are provided.