Background: Although COVID-19 attracted attention to the environments of professional nursing practice, triggering a series of responses to address some of the most pressing problems, it is important to identify the size and scope of other weaknesses that have emerged. Methods: In an observational and cross-sectional study, using the Scale for the Evaluation of the Environment of Professional Nursing Practice, ...
Background: Death is an increasingly frequent event in hospitals, and nurses are the health professionals who live with this reality the most. The pandemic caused by COVID-19 made this event more present, showing that nurses’ attitudes toward death may influence the care provided to people at the end of life. The objective of this study was to analyze the attitudes of nurses in the emergency service toward deat...
Objetivo: identificar a ocorrência da morte nas unidades de cuidados, bem como analisar os registros e as atitudes dos enfermeiros frente à morte no contexto hospitalar. Método: estudo quantitativo, descritivo, transversal, com participação de 900 enfermeiros de um hospital do Norte de Portugal. Com recurso à triangulação de fontes de dados, a coleta realizou-se de fevereiro a março de 2018 através de questioná...
Objective: to analyze nurses’ attitudes toward death in a hospital context after the critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal. Method: this quantitative, descriptive, exploratory study was conducted in a university hospital and addressed 995 nurses. Revised Death Attitude Profile (DAP-R) was used to collect data, which were analyzed using analytical and inferential statistics. Results: the nurses mo...
Objective: to analyze nurses’ attitudes to death in the hospital setting before and after the first critical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: quantitative, cross-sectional, comparative study. Data collection was conducted in a hospital in Portugal, using the Death Attitude Profile Assessment Scale. In 2018, 900 nurses participated and, in 2020, 995. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was p...
Objective: to construct and validate the content of the Assessment Scale of Nursing Professional Practice Environments. Method: methodological study conducted from January to May 2020. The construction of the Scale after a previous qualitative research and literature review. Content validation was performed by 22 experts. Results: initially, the Scale had 128 items grouped in the dimensions structure, process a...
Enquadramento: Apesar da mudança significativa na documentação dos cuidados de enfermagem ocorrida na última década, no âmbito do processo de morrer existem ainda algumas fragilidades que demonstram necessidade de serem estudadas. Objetivo: Analisar os focos de enfermagem documentados pelos enfermeiros, durante o processo de morrer no contexto hospitalar e identificar as diferenças de registos relativos aos foc...
Objetivo: Identificar a concordância dos enfermeiros sobre as concepções de enfermagem com potencial para sustentar a sua prática no âmbito da morte e dos processos de morrer. Método: Estudo quantitativo, exploratório e descritivo, realizado em 36 hospitais de Portugal, de julho de 2015 a março de 2016, com participação de 3451 enfermeiros. Na coleta de dados utilizou-se o questionário e na análise recorreu-se ...