Publications by authors named "Adriana Fasci"

In this study, we aimed to explore the experiences of being cared for in an intensive care unit (ICU) through patients' memories. We adopted a convergent parallel mixed-method design. We interviewed 100 patients shortly after their ICU discharge.

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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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Purpose: To document the prevalence of the nursing diagnosis of anxiety in hospital patients, based on its level of severity, defining characteristics (DCs), and other related factors, and to identify the key DCs that serve as predictors of clinically significant anxiety (CSA).

Design: Cross-sectional study. We enrolled 116 consecutive adult patients hospitalized from October 10 to 16, 2016, in medical-surgical wards within the first 48 hr of admission.

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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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Unlabelled: . Validation of the Italian Clinical Learning Environment Instrument (SVIAT): study protocol.

Introduction: Nursing students obtain most of their university credits in internship environments whose quality can affect their clinical learning.

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