Fernanda Loureiro

Prof. Dr. Fernanda Loureiro

Departamento de Enfermagem da Criança e do Jovem, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
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Professor at School of Nursing, Lisbon University

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Academic Career Length

17Years (2010-Present)

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Luis SousaLuis Sousa
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AAAna Vanessa Antunes
Ana Vanessa Antunes
The emergence of digital educational technologies (DET) raises questions regarding the personalization of both teaching and care. DET use implies profound changes with consequences in nursing care and in nursing teaching-learning process. With the purpose of contributing to the improvement of the teaching-learning process through the use of DET, an exploratory-descriptive, cross-sectional, and observational study, with a quantitative approach (descriptive and inferential statistics), was developed. Online questionnaires were applied (n = 140 students and n = 23 teachers) after ethics committee approval. Results point to low cost and access without time/space limits as the main benefits, and decreased interaction, less physical contact, and technical difficulties as constraints. Globally, there was no difference between students and teachers in the use of DET. Still, men report more constraints than women. In this sample, the use of DET is still at an early stage. Both students and teachers are still unfamiliar with the scope and possibilities of these tools, not taking full advantage of the potential they have to offer. The impact of DET used in personalized nursing care is still yet to be understood.

20 February 2024 in Nursing Open
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DPDina Peças
Dina Peças
ANAna Cristina Neves
Ana Cristina Neves
AAAna Vanessa Antunes
Ana Vanessa Antunes
Aim: To identify the coping strategies and social support received by nursing students during clinical practice.Design: Scoping review.Methods: Primary studies on coping strategies and social support, in full text, in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese and published in 2018 or later were included. Search was carried out in January 2023 on EBSCOhost, PubMed, SciELO, ScienceDirect, OpenAIRE, MedNar Search, WorldWideScience and the references of previously selected articles.Results: A total of 24 studies were identified. Seven studies mentioned social support as a useful strategy and several instruments were identified that allow measurement.Conclusions: Few studies establish a direct relationship between the effectiveness of coping strategies with stressful situations. Positive coping strategies are associated with effective stress management. The relationship between social support and stress reduction is scarcely addressed.Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care: Stressful situations can have an impact on students' health and on the quality of care. Nursing schools and healthcare institutions must work together in programmes to improve students coping abilities.Impact: This review addressed coping strategies used by nursing students during clinical practice. A set of relevant coping strategies were identified that can be used by teachers to improve students' outcomes.Reporting Method: The review was performed according to Preferred Reporting Items for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA‐ScR).Patient or Public Contribution: No patient or public contribution.

17 July 2019 in International Journal of Nursing Practice
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Fernanda LoureiroFernanda Loureiro
Fernanda Loureiro
MFMaria Henriqueta de Jesus Silva Figueiredo
Maria Henriqueta de Jesus Silva Figueiredo
Zaida CharepeZaida Charepe
Zaida Charepe

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MFMargarida Ferreira
Margarida Ferreira
PSPaula Sarreira-de-Oliveira
Paula Sarreira-de-Oliveira
AAAna Vanessa Antunes
Ana Vanessa Antunes
Schools are particularly suitable contexts for the implementation of interventions focused on adolescent sexual behavior. Sexual education and promotion have a multidisciplinary nature. Nurses’ role and the spectrum of the carried-out interventions is not clear. We aimed to identify interventions that promote a healthy sexuality among school adolescents. Our review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews and was registered in the Open Science Framework. Published articles on sexuality in adolescents in school contexts were considered. The research limitations included primary studies; access in full text in English, Spanish, or Portuguese; and no data publication limitation. Research was carried out on the EBSCOhost, PubMed, SciELO, and Web of Science platforms; gray literature and the bibliographies of selected articles were also searched. A total of 56 studies were included in the sample. The studies used a broad range of research methods, and 10 types of interventions were identified. Multi-interventional programs and socio-emotional interventions showed a greater impact on long-term behavioral changes, and continuity seemed to be a key factor. Long-term studies are needed to reach a consensus on the effectiveness of interventions. Nurses’ particular role on the multidisciplinary teams was found to be a gap in the research, and must be further explored.

25 November 2020 in Journal of Clinical Nursing
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Fernanda Loureiro
AAAna Vanessa Antunes
Ana Vanessa Antunes
TPTiina Pelander
Tiina Pelander
Zaida CharepeZaida Charepe
Zaida Charepe

30 August 2022 in BMJ Paediatrics Open
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Fernanda Loureiro
VAVanessa Antunes
Vanessa Antunes
Aim To identify instruments that allow the evaluation of parent’s satisfaction regarding nursing care during their child hospitalisation. Methods A review was performed using Preferred Reporting Items for Scoping Reviews. The study was prospectively registered in Open Science Framework. Research was carried out on EBSCOhost, PubMed, SciELO, Web of Science and ScienceDirect platforms as well as grey literature. Additionally, the references of selected articles were also examined. Results A sample of 65 articles allowed the identifications of 38 distinctive instruments to evaluate parents’ satisfaction in different hospital settings. Most studies were applied in paediatric wards (n=28), followed by neonatal intensive care units (n=21), paediatric intensive care units (n=9) and emergency departments (n=7). Sample size ranged from 13 to 3354 and 3 studies used mixed methods, 20 were methodological studies of instruments construction or validation and 43 were quantitative studies. 21 different instruments previously existent were found. In 3 studies, adapted instruments were used and, in 14 studies, structured instruments were purposively designed for the study. Instruments had between 1 and 13 domains and total number of items ranged between 13 and 92. Most studies assessed overall satisfaction (n=53) and instrument reliability (n=49) and/or validity (n=37). Conclusion Most instruments consider nursing care as a domain of satisfaction. Only two instruments focused specifically on nursing care. In most of the studies, there was a concern to evaluate instruments psychometric properties. This review clearly shows that there is still a gap in the literature on the range of aspects that influence satisfaction and a lack of consensus on ideal conditions for instrument use and application.