Objective: To conduct a benchmarking comparison of the composites of patient safety culture based on the evaluation of Brazilian and Portuguese nurses working in university hospitals. Method: Quantitative, cross-sectional, comparative survey. Data collected between April and December 2014, in two teaching hospitals, applying the instrument Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, in the versions translated an...
Objective: to verify the occurrence of hemorrhagic events related to invasive devices manipulated by nursing in anticoagulated patients. Methods: retrospective cohort study, with analysis of medical records. A total of 867 medical records were investigated, from which a sample of 79 patients who received continuous infusion of sodium heparin was selected. The types of hemorrhagic events and the different invasi...