Background: Person- and family-centered care is one of the recommendations to achieve quality of care and patient safety. However, many health professionals associate the family with insecurity in care. Objective: To analyze, based on nurses’ statements, the advantages and disadvantages of the family’s presence in hospitals for the safety of hospitalized patients. Methods: This was a qualitative interpretative study based on James Reason’s risk model, conducted through semi-structured interviews with 10 nurses selected by convenience. A content analysis was performed using Bardin’s methodology and MAXQDA Plus 2022 software. Results: We identified 17 categories grouped according to the representation of the family in patient safety: The family as a Potentiator of Security Failures (7) and Family as a Safety Barrier (10). Conclusions: The higher number of categories identified under Family as a Safety Barrier shows that nurses see strong potential in the family’s involvement in patient safety. By identifying the need to intervene with and for families so that their involvement is safe, we observed an increase in the complexity of nursing care, which suggests the need to improve nursing ratios, according to the participants.

Evidence highlights the need for professionals to be aware of their stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory practices in order to minimize the negative impact on the people they take care of. However, nursing students’ perceptions of these issues have been poorly studied. This study explores the perspective of senior undergraduate nursing students on mental health and the stigma around it, by considering a simulated case vignette of a person with a mental health problem. A descriptive qualitative approach was chosen and involved three online focus group discussions. The findings show various manifestations of stigma, both at an individual and collective level, which indicates that it is an obstacle to the wellbeing of people with mental illness. Individual manifestations of stigma concern its effect on the person with mental illness, while at the collective level they concern the family or society in general. Stigma is a multifactorial, multidimensional, and complex concept, in terms of identifying and fighting it. Thus, the strategies identified involve multiple approaches at the individual level, aimed at the patient and family, namely through education/training, communication, and relationship strategies. At the collective level, to intervene with the general population and specific groups, such as groups of young people, strategies suggested include education/training, use of the media, and contact with people with mental disorders as ways to fight stigma.

Background: Family involvement in promoting patient safety is a strategy that is increasingly recognized. Nurses have a major role to play here. This study aims to know the family care process developed by nurses and explore the logistic process identified as support for the development of family care in ensuring patient safety in the hospital. Methods: An interpretative qualitative study was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 10 nurses selected by convenience. Content analysis was performed using Atlas.ti 9.1.7 software and Bardin’s methodology. Results: Two large families were identified according to the nature of the strategies mentioned by the participant/s: assistance process and logistic process, 5 categories and 23 subcategories. Care process categories: initial assessment, planning, and implementation. Categories of the logistic process: material and human resources and organization. Conclusions: To implement patient and family-centered care to ensure patient safety, it is necessary to adjust the care and logistic process. At the care level, the importance of the nursing process in the organization of care is evident. At the logistical level, organizational initiatives are needed to stimulate and support this philosophy of care and to intervene at the level of human and material resources.

O presente artigo tem como propósito responder à questão: quais os principais obstáculos sentidos pelos professores em contexto de prática clínica na formação inicial em enfermagem? e ao objetivo: compreender em que medida esses obstáculos podem ser condicionantes do desenvolvimento profissional docente. Trata-se de um estudo de abordagem qualitativa, descritiva de natureza interpretativa. A amostra é intencional, composta por sessenta e oito professores de treze Escolas Superiores Saúde | Enfermagem portuguesas. A recolha de dados foi efetuada através da técnica de focus-group e o tratamento de dados foi executado com recurso à análise de conteúdo temática segundo Bardin. No decurso do processo investigativo, foram cumpridas as recomendações dos padrões exigidos pela Declaração de Helsínquia e Convenção de Oviedo. Todos os participantes foram informados sobre o estudo e seus objetivos, assim como sobre a garantia de confidencialidade dos seus dados e direito de abandonar o estudo em qualquer momento. Os resultados mostram que os obstáculos sentidos pelos professores durante os períodos de ensino clínico aparentam estar relacionados com a falta de preparação para a função supervisiva; dificuldades de interação com os atores envolvidos no processo formativo (supervisor clínico e estudante), ausência de articulação entre a academia e os contextos profissionais e, ainda, com o modo como os ensinos clínicos são organizados. Palavras-chave: professores; enfermagem; obstáculos; prática clínica.

The use of information and communication systems in higher education, such as podcasts, as pedagogical tools, constitutes a strategy to support and motivate students to improve their learning. Thus, following the creation and development of podcasts by teachers aimed at students with a view to improving their skills and self-learning, this study aims to analyze the usability and suitability of podcasts as an educational support tool for students of the bachelor's degree in nursing and to understand how the podcasts developed can contribute to the learning process of these students. An exploratory, observational and descriptive study design was chosen, of a quantitative nature with a convenience sample, consisting of 117 nursing students from a School of Health, using a self-completed questionnaire, including sociodemographic variables as well as the System Usability Scale. SPSS® version 28 was used for data analysis. In general, nursing students rated the developed Podcast as excellent as a pedagogical tool in nursing education. They considered it very useful, easy to use and suitable for nursing education, using it frequently depending on the requirements and type of content. This article provides initial evidence that supports the adoption of this pedagogical tool in the undergraduate nursing course.

Hoje, os estudantes de enfermagem estão mais acérrimos do mundo digital e necessitam de ferramentas que os cativem para o desenvolvimento de competências, tanto na academia, como na prática clínica. A inclusão de um podcast pode ser uma nova perspetiva para a potencialização do processo ensino-aprendizagem. O objetivo deste artigo é mapear as evidências sobre a utilização de um podcast como ferramenta pedagógica no curso de licenciatura em enfermagem. Esta revisão, sob o ponto de vista metodológico, seguiu o Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping reviews e está registada no Open Science Framework. Doze estudos foram incluídos nesta revisão, tendo em conta o título, resumo, texto completo e critérios de inclusão. Os resultados mostram que o podcast é considerado uma ferramenta facilitadora do ensino e aprendizagem na área da saúde, pela possibilidade ilimitada de reprodutibilidade, facilmenteacedida a partir de um telemóvel em qualquer sítio ou hora. E porque permite ser utilizado tanto pelos discentes como pelos docentes, é uma ferramenta benéfica, facilitadora e dinamizadora como material de apoio, com possibilidade de ser utilizada em diversos conteúdos no curso de licenciatura em enfermagem.