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Introduction: The Rural Inter-Professional Simulation Course (RiSC) in New Zealand is a 3-day immersive course that brings rural doctors and nurses together to practise emergency and trauma skills using workshops and a simulation-enhanced interprofessional experience (SEIPE). The course aims to increase practitioners' psychomotor skills, communication, teamwork and leadership skills through simulationbased learning and translate this into the management of trauma in rural settings. Methods: This study employed an exploratory, descriptive design to explore transfer of learning from RiSC into clinical practice 8 months post course participation. Six registered nurses who participated in RiSC took part in semi-structured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analysed using a general inductive approach. Results: The nurses valued the learning experience in RiSC and used the skills they learnt in clinical practice, however factors such as their perception of the authenticity of the scenario and performance anxiety impacted the SEIPE. The nurses also observed interprofessional dynamics playing out during the SEIPE. Conclusions: RiSC is effective for rural trauma team training, however some aspects of the use of simulation in interprofessional education could be further enhanced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Aiming to reveal the rural nursing professionalization, knowledge circulation and state health policies in the Araucania region in Chile, from 1970 to 1990, a historical, descriptive investigation is carried out. Oral history is worked, including 9 nurses through snowball sampling. The data are analysed by coding based on thematic criteria. Rigor is worked by researcher triangulation and Guba and Lincoln criteria. Ezekiel Emanuel's ethical principles are respected. As a result, the following metacategories emerge: Professional rural nursing practice marked by social needs, Professional practice duality, Rural assistants training, Health programs leadership and Personal living conditions transformation. It is concluded that nurses performed their role as health care managers with abnegation and prominent vocation based on the needs they faced, adapting themselves to rurality, living complex realities in an environment of poverty and social vulnerability, thus, developing personally and professionally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this s tudy is to determine relationship between the perception of ethical climate, moral stress and work-related stress. The design was descriptive correlational, and the sampling was census-type with a total sample of 106 participants (80 nursing professionals and 26 doctors). Results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between the ethical climate and work-related stress (rs =-.326, p<.01). An additional finding was that the ethical climate predicts work-related stress, both in doctors and in nurses (R²=7.9, p=.004). Scientific evidence found in this study confirms that bioethics as a science should be a competence required for all health professionals and, in particular nurses due to the ethical and moral challenges faced in their professional practice, especially in critical areas due to the policies, regulations and resources they count on at the workplace. The ethical climate as well as the moral and work stress have to be considered by the health institutions, taking into account that they can have a negative effect on the doctors and nurses' health, which limits the quality of health care they provide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]