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- A nursing staff model: the impact in nursing carePublication . Parreira, Pedro Miguel; Freitas, Maria João; Marôco, JoãoBackground: The need for adequate nursing resources to the real needs of customers is a key priority for excellence in the quality of nursing care. Hence, it is important to create nursing staff models that assess the impact in nursing care. However there has been no consensus on what variables include, constituting a current concern for managers, in particular with regard the safety in health care. Aim: This research aimed to evaluate the fit of a nursing staff model and their impact on the Nursing Care. Materials And Methods: A quantitative study, transversal and correlational was conducted. Data collection was collected through a questionnaire with three samples: nurses (629), nurses bosses (43) and clients (1290), from 43 hospitals in 8 units with different management models. The psychometric assessment study was conducted through exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis who demonstrated adequate validity and reliability for the evaluation of the variables of nursing staff model. Results: The trajectory "Safe Environment → Quality Nursing Care" is statistically significant (BMAS.CESQ = 0.18; SE = 0.08; βMAS.CESQ = 0.15; p = 0.026) so, higher in security work environment, increase the perception of nursing care insurance and quality. Moderate and significant linear correlation (r = 0.49) between the "availability of nurses in adequate quantity" and "availability of nurses with appropriate mix of skills.“ The trajectories "Availability of nurses with appropriate mix of quality nursing skills and care" (BQUAL.CESQ = -0.02, SE = 0.04; βQUAL.CESQ = -0.03; p = 0.663) and "Availability of nurses in adequate quantity and quality of nursing care "(BQUAN.CESQ = 0.04; SE = 0.16; βQUAN.CESQ = -0.02; p = 0.791) did not reveal statistically significant. Discussion and conclusions: The indicators (manifest variables) associated with each of the latent variables from the nursing staff model are relevant to the explanation of the model. The indicators range globally, from moderate relevant to highly relevant. Latent variables presenting β> 0.6. The model reveals acceptable indices of goodness of adjustment, so it is appropriate to explain the relationships between variables. The variables "Availability of nurses with appropriate mix of skills and the adequate quantity” have weak correlations with the perception of "quality nursing care", and the skills of nurses are perceived as less relevant. The Safe Environment is not interdependent on the availability of nurses, yet it is perceived as a very important factor for the promotion of "quality nursing care." The "availability of nurses with the right mix of skills", the "availability of nurses in adequate quantity" and the "safe environment" (Structure variables) explain 2% of the variance of the variables of "quality nursing care" (process variables).
- Social representation about entrepreneurship in high education: an empirical study about the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills with portuguese nursing studentsPublication . Parreira, Pedro Miguel; Salgueiro, Anabela; Castilho, Amélia; Arreguy-Sena, Cristina; Oliveira, Denize; Carvalho, Carla; Mónico, Lisete; Freitas, Maria JoãoBackground: The social representations are socially produced that guide behavior and intervene in the individual and social identity. It is important to understand how the cognitive dimension is assimilated by entrepreneurship students and the changes that they are able to perform in the rational domain in the event of attending training sessions. Aim: To describe the content and structure of the social representations of entrepreneurship among Portuguese students, before and after educational interventions. Materials and methods: Qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations, in its structural approach, conducted at a higher education institution in Portugal (Coimbra). A population of 4th-year (final year) undergraduate nursing students in Portugal (Nursing School of Coimbra) was analyzed in two moments, 192 students in the first moment and 139 in the second moment. Participants were asked to answer the following question: “Write down the first five words or expressions that come to your mind when you read the word –Entrepreneurship. Answers were analyzed by specific software, the EVOC and SIMI software (Vèrges, 1993a), 2005 version, through the techniques developed by Vèrges (1987-1994). Results: The results indicate stabilization in both structures of representations. However, the prototypical categorization highlighted a richer and more organized structuring of students after the training sessions in entrepreneurship. This structure was more in line with the concepts of entrepreneurship, from the idea to business, where a path to success is visible. Concepts such as dynamism, research, discovery, proactivity, taking a risk, challenge, commitment, ambition, bet, and challenge emerged in a second periphery and, therefore, it is necessary to invest even more in training, thus stimulating the need for determination to undertake. Conclusions: A consistency in the formative and learning processes was observed, consistent with the dimensions of concepts considered as important to undertake. Positive attitudes emerged that guided the representation under study, in line with the development of the core competencies to undertake.