Rui Miguel Barros Cunha Carvalho

Innovation is an essential factor for the survival, growth and competitive advantage of companies and health services. A theoretical model was developed and tested, portraying the interrelationships between entrepreneurial leadership, the leader’s innovative behavior, individual entrepreneurial orientation and innovation. This is a quantitative, descriptive-correlational, and cross-sectional study carried out by applying an online questionnaire to 760 nurses, working in health institutions in Portugal. The results indicate that the leader’s innovative behavior has an impact on innovation in nursing. Innovative behavior strongly influences an individual’s entrepreneurial orientation. Entrepreneurial leadership impacts innovative behavior and individual entrepreneurial orientation, and this last is mediated by the leader’s innovative behavior. The role of individual entrepreneurial orientation in innovation has not been confirmed. This study contributes to the literature on innovation by providing new evidence regarding the benefits of entrepreneurial leadership and the leader’s innovative behavior. It also contributes to the emerging literature on the antecedents of innovation. The results additionally have relevant health management implications.

Objectives: Spirituality, emotional intelligence, and palliative care (PC) knowledge have a positive and direct influence on self-efficacy and on perception of preparation and ability to provide end-of-life (EOL) care. The aim of this work is to propose a conceptual model that relates spirituality, emotional intelligence, PC knowledge, self-efficacy, and the preparation and ability to provide EOL care by doctors and nurses.Methods: Quantitative, exploratory, descriptive, and inferential study applied to doctors and nurses in a hospital in the north of Portugal, between May and July 2022. The data collection instrument includes a questionnaire. The relationships between latent variables were evaluated using structural equation models by the partial least squares method using the Smart PLS 3.0 software. It was obtained the previous authorization of the ethics committee.Results: The results (n = 380) indicate that self-efficacy, spirituality, and PC knowledge have a positive influence on the ability to provide EOL care. Emotional intelligence and spirituality have a direct and positive effect on self-efficacy. There is no direct influence of emotional intelligence on the ability to provide EOL care, but emotional intelligence has an indirect effect mediated by self-efficacy.Significance of results: Spirituality, self-efficacy, and emotional intelligence are very important for the ability of doctors and nurses to provide EOL care. The identification of predictive factors of the ability to provide EOL care and the determination of the relationship between them can improve the provision of EOL care, reduction of health costs, timely and early referral of people to PC, and increase life quality.

Introdução: A capacitação dos cidadãos no auxílio a vítimas em risco de vida é fundamental em qualquer sociedade. Objetivo: avaliar os conhecimentos sobre Suporte Básico de Vida dos trabalhadores de uma Câmara Municipal do norte de Portugal, antes e após a implementação do programa de intervenção “Capacitar para Salvar” e avaliar as competências demonstradas, após a participação no programa de intervenção. Materiais e Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo do tipo quase-experimental e longitudinal, onde foi utilizado um questionário, constituído por 2 partes (caraterização sociodemográfica e avaliação de conhecimentos) e uma grelha de avaliação de competências. No 1º momento foram avaliados os conhecimentos sobre Suporte Básico de Vida e implementado um programa de intervenção, sendo que no 2º momento, foram avaliados os conhecimentos e competências sobre Suporte Básico de Vida. Resultados: Participaram no estudo 97 trabalhadores. Os resultados mostraram que os trabalhadores possuem conhecimentos e competências insuficientes em Suporte Básico de Vida. Discussão e Conclusões: Verificaram-se diferenças estatisticamente significativas nos conhecimentos e competências em Suporte Básico de Vida. Implicações para a prática: implementação de estratégias que promovam a formação em Suporte Básico de Vida a todos cidadãos, quer ao nível da transmissão de conhecimentos, quer da formação prática.Como citar este artigo: Monteiro MJFSP, Pereira MCARS, Carvalho RMBC, Carril ÉSB, Carril MFB, Rodrigues VMCP. Capacitação de trabalhadores em suporte básico de vida. Rev Cuid. 2018; 9(2): 2117-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.v9i2.505