Research Grant

Dear ACENDIO members,

We are happy to present the winners of the Research Grant for 2021

Title: Content validation of the Nanda International nursing diagnosis Risk for perioperative Hypothermia (00254)

Project description: This study aims to validate the NANDA International nursing diagnosis Risk for perioperative hypothermia (00254). The risk factors, associated condition and at-risk population of this diagnosis will be explored using Fehring’s diagnostic content validation model (Fehring, 1987). A panel of international experts will rank the relevancy of each diagnostic indicator of Risk for perioperative hypothermia to reach the level of evidence 2.3 (NANDA-I, 2018-2020).

Manuel Schwanda, RN, MScN, has a specialization in anaesthetic nursing in Austria, and currently works as a lecturer at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. He is PhD student at Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg and works on his thesis with the topic Nursing studies of the unplanned perioperative hypothermia.

Silvia Brunner, RN, MScN, leader of an interprofessional project focusing on the risk for malnutrition in older hospitalized people, doctoral student at the Institute of Nursing Science at the University of Vienna (A). She is working as an Advanced Practice Nurse on the surgical department, specialized in geriatric trauma care. She is training nurses in hospital for the use of Standardized Nursing Language (diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes), prevention of delirium, falls, malnutrition and pressure ulcers.

Miriam de Abreu Almeida, RN, PhD, Postdoctoral degree at College of Nursing, University of Iowa. Full Professor, School of Nursing at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Advisor of Master and PhD in Nursing. Scientific production related to Nursing Process; Standardized Nursing Language (diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes); adult health; education in nursing. Fellowship of NANDA International. Research Productivity Scholarship of the National Council for Scientific and Technological-CNPq.

Grant 2018 report: Prevalence of nursing diagnoses in different patient populations and healthcare settings: a scoping review

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