Enquadramento: Os enfermeiros na urgência desempenham um papel fundamental na investigação de crimes, colaborando com os órgãos de Polícia Criminal na colheita de evidências forenses. Esta responsabilidade exige conhecimentos, técnicas e equipamentos adequados. A articulação entre os cuidados de saúde e o sistema jurídico processual, previne a destruição desnecessária de provas, melhorando os resultados na inve...
Adolescents are increasingly encouraged to freely express their sexuality. The purpose of this study was to compare non-cisgender adolescents with cisgender/heterosexual adolescents and those who have an undefined gender identity and/or sexual orientation, on their future prospects, emotional state, sexuality, risk behaviors, and their perception of health care and its accessibility. Adolescents who identify as...
Introduction: Sexual education plays an important role in the prevention of risk-taking sexual behaviors. The objective of this study was to evaluate the importance attributed to sexual education by adolescents, correlating it with the assessment they make of their attitudes and with their knowledge towards sexuality. Methods: This observational study included adolescents who attended elementary or high school ...
OBJECTIVES: to translate and cross-culturally validate the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric© (LCJR©) instrument for nursing students. METHODS: the application of LCJR-PT© was preceded by a linguistic translation into Portuguese, based on the translation-back-translation method. This psychometric study involved 32 nursing students from a program in Portugal. Data were collected through observations of two indepe...
Introdução: Os adolescentes valorizam o aconselhamento os profissionais de saúde sobre métodos contracetivos e sexualidade como fonte de informação. Objetivos: Caracterizar o conhecimento dos adolescentes sobre sexualidade e a adesão às consultas de medicina do adolescente/planeamento familiar; avaliar diferenças no conhecimento sobre métodos contracetivos e comportamentos sexuais de risco no grupo que frequent...
Falls are a public health problem that cause serious damage to people’s health and health systems. This study aims to estimate the validity and reliability of the Memorial Emergency Department Fall Risk Assessment Tool for the European Portuguese population. The sample included 186 adults from an emergency department of a District Hospital in Portugal. Reliability and precision (inter-rater reliability) are ass...
Enquadramento: Os conhecimentos sobre suporte básico de vida (SBV) em estudantes de enfermagem requerem competências técnicas (compressões e ventilações), mas também competências não técnicas (julgamento clínico e tomada de decisão). Objetivos: Avaliar as características sociodemográficas e académicas dos estudantes de enfermagem; avaliar os conhecimentos teóricos sobre SBV dos estudantes de enfermagem e relaci...
Objectives: to validate, for the Portuguese population, the Clinical Decision-Making Nursing Scale© (CDMNS©). Methods: this methodological study involved 496 nursing students who filled in a questionnaire created using sociodemographic and academic data, and the scale to evaluate the making of decisions in nursing. Results: the confirmatory factorial analysis showed that the adjustment of the factorial structur...
Knowledge about basic life support (BLS) in nursing students involves both technical skills (compressions and ventilations) and non-technical skills (clinical judgment and decision-making). Objectives: To assess nursing students’ sociodemographic and academic characteristics; to assess nursing students’ theoretical knowledge about BLS and analyze the association between nursing students’ sociodemographic and ac...