Marília Fernandes Andrade, Érika de Cássia Lopes Chaves, Michele Rita Oliveira Miguel, Talita Prado Simão, Denismar Alves Nogueira, Denise Hollanda Iunes
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the body posture of nursing students before and after clinical practice. METHOD: The study was developed in two stages. Initially the body posture of students of the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th periods were assessed through photogrammetry. All images were analyzed in a random and masked manner with CorporisPro® 3.1.3 software. Three evaluations were performed for each angle and then the mean value was calculated. Two years later, when the 4th period students had developed their clinical internships, their body posture was again evaluated...
August 28, 2017: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P