Publications by authors named "Adriana Dal Ponte"

Background: Effective performance of clinical handovers should be one of the priorities of nursing education to promote efficient communication skills and ensure patient safety. However, to date, no studies have explored to what extent nursing students are involved in handovers.

Objective: To explore nursing students' handover involvement during their clinical rotations and associated factors.

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Background: Easy-to-access tools have been demonstrated to improve evidence-based practice (EBP) competences among nursing students. However, students' perception of access to EBP tools (e.g.

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Background: Undergraduate nursing students have been documented to experience ethical distress during their clinical training and felt poorly supported in discussing the ethical issues they encountered.

Research Aims: This study was aimed at exploring nursing students' perceived opportunity to discuss ethical issues that emerged during their clinical learning experience and associated factors.

Research Design: An Italian national cross-sectional study design was performed in 2015-2016.

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Unlabelled: . The Clinical Learning Quality Evaluation Index for nursing students.

Introduction: The Italian nursing programs, the need to introduce tools evaluating the quality of the clinical learning as perceived by nursing students.

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Aim: To describe the perception of the evolution of nursing shortage from 2000 to 2009 according to Nursing Coordinators and the strategies to face it.

Methods: Nursing coordinators of 11 hospitals or districts of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trentino Alto Adige and Veneto regions were interviewed in 2000, 2004 and 2009 to collect data and assess their perception on nurses' shortage.

Results: In the first interview the medium gap between staff planned and in service was -5.

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