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Simulated practice in the development of clinical reasoning in nursing students...
Rute, P.; Marques, M.; Oliveira, H.; Goes, M.; Pedrosa, M.; Lopes, M.Simulated clinical practice is a pedagogical technique that replicates real-world scenarios in a controlled environment, enabling nursing students to engage in the teaching-learning process actively. While simulated practice is a growing pedagogical strategy, several studies have examined its strengths and limitations. However, evidence of its effectiveness in developing clinical reasoning skills among nursing ...
Balanced life: The impact of hybrid work on employee well-being through the len...
Junça Silva, A.; Lopes, M.Purpose Hybrid work is a working model that combines remote or home-based work with in-person work, typically from a traditional location such as an office. Although teleworking has been a model frequently used since the 1990s, it only became more common with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the subsequent mandatory lockdowns. Thus, the post-pandemic era allowed many organizations to adopt a w...
The Relationship between Nursing Practice Environment and Pressure Ulcer Care Q...
Furtado, K.; Voorham, J.; Infante, P.; Afonso, A.; Morais, C.; Lucas, P.; Lopes, M.Background: The morbidity associated with ageing has contributed to an increase in the prevalence of Pressure Ulcers (PUs) in all care settings. The impact of these on people’s quality of life and the extent of the associated economic and social burden constitutes today, by their importance, a serious public health problem. This study aims to describe the nursing work environment in Portuguese long-term care (L...
Manifestação da Perturbação de Hiperatividade/Défice de Atenção em crianças ent...
Martins, A.; Medeiros, B.; Moreira, D.; Amorim, F.; Oliveira, I.; Soares, J.; Lopes, M.; Leal, R.; Castro, T.; Fernandes, S. M.; Santos, SusanaPóster apresentado na 2.ª Edição da Semana da Sustentabilidade, na Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique.
Exploring how the dark triad and curiosity shape the trajectory of affective ev...
Junça Silva, A.; Lopes, M.Background: The present research relied on the affective events theory to develop a framework explaining how daily micro-events trigger affective reactions that, in turn, influence quality-of-life indicators (i.e., psychological well-being and COVID-19 stress). We further delineated theoretical arguments for curiosity as a boundary condition that moderated this relation and proposed the dark triad (Machiavellia...
Anxiety and Coping Stress Strategies in Researchers During COVID-19 Pandemic
Batista, P.; Afonso, A.; Lopes, M.; Fonseca, C.; Oliveira-Silva, P.; Pereira, Anabela; Pinho, L.Abstract The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, leading to changes in one's personal and working life. Researchers have undergone extensive changes in their roles, mainly in the area of health care, with research into the virus now the priority. Aim: To assess the anxiety, depression, stress, fears, and coping strategies of Portuguese researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants a...
What Technologies Can the Nurse Use to Increase the Quality of Life of the Elde...
Ripado, A.; Pires, R.; Morais, R.; Parreira, P.; Fonseca, C.; Lopes, M.; Marques, M.C.The purpose of this study was to identify the new technologies that nurses could use to increase the quality of life on an elderly person with leg ulcer. Methods: it was made a systematic revision of literature with qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis. Results: Elderly persons with chronic leg ulcers frequently experience multiple disabling symptoms and these symptoms are highly related with impairment of q...
Situational-Context for Virtually Modeling the Elderly
Garcia-Alonso, J.; Berrocal, J.; Murillo, J.; Mendes, D.; Fonseca, C.; Lopes, M.The generalized aging of the population is incrementing the pressure over, frequently overextended, healthcare systems. This situations is even worse in underdeveloped, sparsely populated regions like Extremadura in Spain or Alentejo in Portugal. In this paper we propose an initial approach to use the Situational-Context, a technique to seamlessly adapt Internet of Things systems to the needs and preferences of...
Psychometric Properties of the Elderly Nursing Core Set
Fonseca, C.; Lopes, M.; Mendes, D.; Parreira, P.; Mónico, L.; Marques, M.C.Aim: To assess the psychometric properties of the Elderly Nursing Core Set. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study; convenience sample composed of 427 individuals aged 65 years old or older. Results: Factor analysis of principal components allowed extracting 4 concepts, i.e., Self-Care, Learning and Mental Functions, Communication, and Relationship with Friends and Caregivers, which explained 82.25% of the ...
Healthcare Computer Reasoning Addressing Chronically Ill Societies Using IoT: D...
Mendes, D.; Lopes, M.; Romão, A.; Rodrigues, I.The authors present a proposal to develop intelligent assisted living environments for home based healthcare. These environments unite the chronical patient clinical history sematic representation with the ability of monitoring the living conditions and events recurring to a fully managed Semantic Web of Things (SWoT). Several levels of acquired knowledge and the case based reasoning that is possible by knowled...