Male nurses' views of gender in the nurse-family relationship in paediatric care.

AIMS: (1) To learn how male nurses view and manage their relationships with families of hospitalized children, in contrast to how they view those established by female nurses. (2) To know if male nurses' relationships with families of hospitalized children are influenced by gender roles and stereotypes. BACKGROUND: Relationships are essential in care. Prevailing gender stereotypes suggest that males have more difficulties with relationships than with technical aspects of nursing. METHOD: Descriptive qualitative research in a public tertiary hospital September-December 2015. Participants were male nurses who worked in maternal and child health. Purposive sampling, based on criteria of homogeneity-regularity and heterogeneity-diversity. Semi-structured interviews and content analysis. FINDINGS: Twelve male nurses participated. Two key themes emerged. (1) Establishment of professional-family relationship. Male nurses denied that male and female nurses established relationships with families differently, attributing any differences to personality rather than gender. (2) Management of relationships. Male nurses claimed that they set more limits on their relationships with families than female nurses. DISCUSSION: Male nurses both disrupted and reproduced gendered stereotypes about relationships with families, revealing new models of masculinity. CONCLUSION: Male nurses reject the stereotype that nursing is a women's profession, but they interpret their relationships with families in terms of gender roles and stereotypes. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND NURSING POLICY: These findings contribute to understandings of the influence of gender stereotypes in nursing. They support the work of professional associations and labour unions in Spain and other countries to combat gender stereotypes and gender differences in nursing.

Diez cuestiones que debería considerar antes de enviar un artículo a una revista científica / Ten questions you should consider before submitting an article to a scientific journal

Investigar implica no solo conocer los métodos y diseños de investigación, sino que comporta comprender las estrategias para la difusión y publicación de los resultados en las revistas científicas. Se considera que una investigación termina cuando está publicada y es divulgada entre la comunidad científica. La publicación de un manuscrito no es sencilla, puesto que conlleva pasar por un riguroso proceso editorial evaluador para garantizar la calidad científica de dicha propuesta. El objetivo de este artículo es comunicar a los autores potenciales los principales errores o deficiencias que normalmente y de forma general justifican la decisión de no aceptar un artículo científico por parte de los revisores de revistas científicas. A partir de la experiencia de las autoras como revisoras de revistas nacionales e internacionales del ámbito de la enfermería y las ciencias de la salud, se identifican un total de 10 tipos o grupos, que versan sobre los errores de formulación, las incongruencias entre diferentes partes del texto, la falta de estructuración, un lenguaje poco preciso, las lagunas respecto a información y la detección de imprecisiones relevantes. La identificación y el análisis de estas cuestiones permiten prevenirlas, siendo de gran utilidad a los futuros investigadores a la hora de difundir los resultados de sus trabajos a la comunidad científica. En definitiva, la mejor estrategia de difusión es aquella que asegura la calidad científica del trabajo y que no escatima esfuerzos para prevenir dichos errores o deficiencias que los revisores suelen detectar en los artículos evaluados

Investigating involves not only knowing the research methods and designs; it involves knowing the strategies for disseminating and publishing the results in scientific journals. An investigation is considered complete when it is published and is disclosed to the scientific community. The publication of a manuscript is not simple, since it involves examination by a rigorous editorial process evaluator to ensure the scientific quality of the proposal. The objective of this article is to communicate to potential authors the main errors or deficiencies that typically and routinely explain the decision by the referees of scientific journals not to accept a scientific article. Based on the experience of the authors as referees of national and international journals in the field of nursing and health sciences, we have identified a total of 10 types or groups, which cover formulation errors, inconsistencies between different parts of the text, lack of structuring, imprecise language, information gaps, and the detection of relevant inaccuracies. The identification and analysis of these issues enables their prevention, and is of great use to future researchers in the dissemination of the results of their work to the scientific community. In short, the best publishing strategy is one that ensures the scientific quality of the work and spares no effort in avoiding the errors or deficiencies that referees routinely detect in the articles they evaluate

Ten questions you should consider before submitting an article to a scientific journal. / Diez cuestiones que debería considerar antes de enviar un artículo a una revista científica.

Investigating involves not only knowing the research methods and designs; it involves knowing the strategies for disseminating and publishing the results in scientific journals. An investigation is considered complete when it is published and is disclosed to the scientific community. The publication of a manuscript is not simple, since it involves examination by a rigorous editorial process evaluator to ensure the scientific quality of the proposal. The objective of this article is to communicate to potential authors the main errors or deficiencies that typically and routinely explain the decision by the referees of scientific journals not to accept a scientific article. Based on the experience of the authors as referees of national and international journals in the field of nursing and health sciences, we have identified a total of 10 types or groups, which cover formulation errors, inconsistencies between different parts of the text, lack of structuring, imprecise language, information gaps, and the detection of relevant inaccuracies. The identification and analysis of these issues enables their prevention, and is of great use to future researchers in the dissemination of the results of their work to the scientific community. In short, the best publishing strategy is one that ensures the scientific quality of the work and spares no effort in avoiding the errors or deficiencies that referees routinely detect in the articles they evaluate.

Estimating bradykinesia severity in Parkinson's disease by analysing gait through a waist-worn sensor.

Bradykinesia is a cardinal symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and describes the slowness of movement revealed in patients. Current PD therapies are based on dopamine replacement, and given that bradykinesia is the symptom that best correlates with the dopaminergic deficiency, the knowledge of its fluctuations may be useful in the diagnosis, treatment and better understanding of the disease progression. This paper evaluates a machine learning method that analyses the signals provided by a triaxial accelerometer placed on the waist of PD patients in order to automatically assess bradykinetic gait unobtrusively. This method employs Support Vector Machines to determine those parts of the signals corresponding to gait. The frequency content of strides is then used to determine bradykinetic walking bouts and to estimate bradykinesia severity based on an epsilon-Support Vector Regression model. The method is validated in 12 PD patients, which leads to two main conclusions. Firstly, the frequency content of the strides allows for the dichotomic detection of bradykinesia with an accuracy higher than 90%. This process requires the use of a patient-dependant threshold that is estimated based on a leave-one-patient-out regression model. Secondly, bradykinesia severity measured through UPDRS scores is approximated by means of a regression model with errors below 10%. Although the method has to be further validated in more patients, results obtained suggest that the presented approach can be successfully used to rate bradykinesia in the daily life of PD patients unobtrusively.

Dyskinesia and motor state detection in Parkinson's disease patients with a single movement sensor.

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that alters the patients' motor performance. Patients suffer many motor symptoms: bradykinesia, dyskinesia and freezing of gait, among others. Furthermore, patients alternate between periods in which they are able to move smoothly for some hours (ON state), and periods with motor complications (OFF state). An accurate report of PD motor states and symptoms will enable doctors to personalize medication intake and, therefore, improve response to treatment. Additionally, real-time reporting could allow an automatic management of PD by means of an automatic control of drug-administration pump doses. Such a system must be able to provide accurate information without disturbing the patients' daily life activities. This paper presents the results of the MoMoPa study classifying motor states and dyskinesia from 20 PD patients by using a belt-worn single tri-axial accelerometer. The algorithms obtained will be validated in a further study with 15 PD patients and will be enhanced in the REMPARK project.