Background: Airway clearance impairment has a significant impact on self-care and quality of life. Identifying clinical data, nursing diagnoses, and nursing interventions is essential to clinical reasoning and enhancing nursing care. This study aims to map the existing evidence on clinical data, nursing diagnoses, and nursing interventions addressing the nursing focus on “airway clearance”. Methods: Research wa...
Introduction: The building of an ostomy generates changes that trigger a health/disease transition. Nurses play a major role in adapting to the new condition. It is important to formalize nursing knowledge that supports nurses’ decision-making in order to incorporate it into information systems that promote evidence-based nursing practice. Objetive: Continuously map the nursing knowledge involved in the process...
Aim: To describe nurses’ perspectives on promoting tracheostomy self-care. There is little information on the nurses’ perspective as care providers with knowledge of clinical contexts. Design: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted. Methods: A purposeful sample of nurses was selected from eight Portuguese hospitals. Recruitment ended once data saturation was reached (n = 12). Data were collected using se...
Aims:This study aims to (1) analyse all self-care–related interventions Portuguesenurses documented, (2) determine potential issues that may impair semantic interoper-ability and (3) propose a new set of interventions representing nursing actions regardingself-care that may integrate any HER application.Background:As populations age and chronic diseases increase, self-care concerns rise.Individuals who seek hea...
Enquadramento: A transição parental pode ter um significado relevante na saúde mental dos pais. Facilitar esta transição é uma importante função dos enfermeiros. A informoterapia pode beneficiar tomadas de decisão parentais. Um portal orientado para a promoção das competências parentais administrado pela internet, integrado no plano de cuidados individual, pode promover competências parentais, neste caso, relat...
Introduction: Self-care competence can improve health outcomes in people with a tracheostomy. The use of an instrument to assess the self-care competence of the person with an ostomy allows for organized and complete data collection, facilitating the identification of nursing care needs. In Portugal there is no validated instrument that allows the assessment of self-care competence of the person with a tracheos...
Introdução: A competência no autocuidado pode melhorar os resultados em saúde na pessoa com ostomia de ventilação. A utilização de um instrumento para a avaliação da competência de autocuidado na pessoa com ostomia permite uma recolha de dados organizada e completa, facilitando a identificação das necessidades em cuidados de enfermagem. Em Portugal, não existe um instrumento validado que permita avaliar a compe...
Objective: This review aims to continuously map the nursing knowledge about people with paresis of voluntary muscles in any context of care. Introduction: Muscle paresis is a condition that significantly impacts quality of life. Nurses have a crucial role in managing this condition, particularly paresis of voluntary movement muscles. However, nursing knowledge about patients with paresis of voluntary muscles is...
Background: the family is the privileged context of support for the life and health of individuals. The systemic approach to the family has gained relevance. The Nursing Ontology proposes a structure where concepts of the discipline and their relationships are specified, describing a formal representation of nursing knowledge. Objectives: representing nursing knowledge about the family as a care client, in thre...
Enquadramento: a família é o contexto privilegiado de cuidados de suporte à vida e saúde dos indivíduos. A abordagem sistémica da família tem, conceptualmente vindo a ganhar projeção. A Ontologia de Enfermagem, propõe uma estrutura onde os conceitos da disciplina e as suas relações são especificados, descrevendo uma representação formal do conhecimento de enfermagem. Objetivos: representar o conhecimento em enf...