Objective: The objective of this review is to explore the lived experiences of critically ill adults, their families, or health care professionals with remote communication in intensive care units (ICUs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduction: Family visiting restrictions in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic imposed significant challenges to communication between critically ill adults, their families, and t...
Self-care is an important nursing-sensitive outcome. Reliable and valid measures are needed for therapeutic self-care assessment that may inform the development and evaluation of individualized nursing interventions co-created with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) adults. The therapeutic self-care scale European Portuguese version (TSCS-EPV) is a validated generic measure that may be used to assess self-care in ...
Student-centred learning strategies stimulate the development of individual potential. Thepurpose of this article is to describe the implementation of an innovative strategy applied in alab session taken by 14 first year students (novice) enrolled in a Nursing Degree. The instructionand training of a technical procedure were performed by a student studying in an advancedacademic level (expert). The expert stude...
The mirroring technique is a pedagogical strategy applied in a clinical context with recognisedcontributions to the teaching and learning processes within the Nursing field. The use of thisstrategy in laboratory sessions, which anticipate the clinical context but in a controlled simulationenvironment, seems to be an added value for students learning. In order to understand thecontributions that students perceiv...