Healthcare-associated infections and nursing leadership: A systematic review.

Background: Healthcare-associated infections are strictly related to healthcare practices. A head nurse stimulates and motivates nurses, boosts nurses' job performance and satisfaction, and can influence adverse event development.

Aim: To explore the relationship between healthcare-associated infections and head nurse leadership style.

Pediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in lower and medium complexity care units: A Delphi study.

Background: The effectiveness of pediatric care is made more challenging to analyze by the need for specialist nursing and by the specific characteristics of pediatric patients, as opposed to adult patients, such as ongoing rapid growth and development, and different physical, cognitive, and emotional demands. Previous research has identified "Pediatric Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes" (PNSOs) in intensive care unit settings, though pediatric intensive care beds only represent a very limited percentage of hospital beds. To improve care quality and safety for a larger population of patients, this study aims to identify PNSOs in lower and medium-complexity care units (LMCCUs).

Nursing leadership style and error management culture: a scoping review.

Purpose: This paper aims to assess the influence of nursing leadership style on error management culture (EMC).

Design/methodology/approach: This scoping review was conducted following the integrative review methodology of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and EBSCO databases were systematically searched to identify studies on nursing leadership, error management and measurement, and error management culture.

Head Nurse Leadership: Facilitators and Barriers to Adherence to Infection Prevention and Control Programs-A Qualitative Study Protocol.

Background: The effective management of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) relies on the implementation of good practice across the entire multidisciplinary team. The organizational context and the role of head nurses influence the team's performance and behavior. Understanding how decision-making processes influence healthcare professionals' behavior in the management of HAIs could help identify alternative interventions for reducing the risk of infection in healthcare organizations.

Telehealth vs in-person education for enhancing self-care of ostomy patients (Self-Stoma): Protocol for a noninferiority, randomized, open-label, controlled trial.

Introduction: Postoperative patients with ostomies experience significant changes in their lives as a result of the device implantation. Self-care is important to improve their health outcomes. Telehealth provides an opportunity to expand access to self-care education.

Measuring Nurses' Organizational Well-Being: A Systematic Review of Available Instruments.

This systematic review aimed to identify and compare instruments measuring nurses' organizational well-being, summarise the dimensions measured by these instruments, the statistical analysis performed for validity evidence and identify an instrument that comprehensively investigates nurses' organizational well-being. The JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis and the PRISMA checklist were used as guidelines. The search was conducted on Medline, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Scopus.

Cardiovascular nurses and organizational well-being: a systematic review.

Aims: This systematic review assesses the organizational well-being of nurses working in cardiovascular settings and identifies environmental variables influencing it.

Methods And Results: The Joanna Briggs Institute's methodology and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines have been followed. The search was conducted, from the database inception up to and including 1 December 2022, on Medline (via PubMed), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health, Cochrane Library, and Scopus.

Work-related stress, job satisfaction, and quality of work life among cardiovascular nurses in Italy: Structural equation modeling.

Aim: To investigate the simultaneous effects of work-related stress and job satisfaction on cardiovascular nurses' quality of work life.

Background: Prior research has investigated nurses' work-related stress, job satisfaction, and quality of work life as separate aspects and not in specific nursing settings, such as cardiovascular wards. Cardiovascular care settings can be particularly stressful for nurses, who are often faced with distress, depression and patients and caregivers' physical and psychological exhaustion.

Remote motivational interviewing to improve patient self-care and caregiver contribution to self-care in heart failure (REMOTIVATE-HF): Rationale, design, and methodology for a multicentre randomized controlled trial.

In patients with heart failure (HF), self-care, and caregiver contribution to self-care (i.e., the daily management of the disease by patients and caregivers) are essential for improving patient outcomes.

Specialized Nurse-led Care of Chronic Wounds During Hospitalization and After Discharge: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of specialized nurse-led care of patients with chronic wounds, provided both during hospitalization and postdischarge, on wound healing and readmission rates.

Methods: An unblinded randomized controlled trial was conducted. Participants were patients with chronic wounds, randomly assigned to either the experimental group (cared for by wound care nurses both during hospitalization and postdischarge) or to the control group (cared for according to standard practice).

Measuring academic satisfaction in nursing students: a systematic review of the instruments.

Student academic satisfaction is one of the most important factors affecting the success and quality of a higher education institute and is an indicator about teaching and learning. This study aims to summarize and critically evaluate the instruments assessing academic satisfaction in nursing education. A systematic review was undertaken, PRISMA were used for the screening of studies.

Towards a new conceptual model for nurses' organizational well-being: An integrative review.

Aim: The aim of this study is to summarize conceptual models of nurses' organizational well-being and identify common variables among them.

Background: To understand how the characteristics of an organizational context affect workers' well-being, numerous conceptual models have been developed. Such models have been conceptualized in various working contexts other than health care and not always considering the particularities of the profession of nursing.

The Wounded Healer: A Phenomenological Study on Hospital Nurses Who Contracted COVID-19.

Since the pandemic began nurses were at the forefront of the crisis, assisting countless COVID-19 patients, facing unpreparedness, social and family isolation, and lack of protective equipment. Of all health professionals, nurses were those most frequently infected. Research on healthcare professionals' experience of the pandemic and how it may have influenced their life and work is sparse.

Nursing leadership in clinical practice, its efficacy and repercussion on nursing-sensitive outcomes: A cross-sectional multicentre protocol study.

Aim: The aim of this study to describe a research protocol for evaluating the relationship between nursing leadership, organisational well-being and nurse and patient outcomes.

Background: The head nurses' leadership style influences the organisational context. When an organisation promotes nurses' well-being, they perform better performances and are more satisfied and engaged with their job.

Effect of a wound healing protocol on patients with stage III and IV pressure ulcers: a preliminary observational study.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of a wound healing protocol for stage III and IV pressure ulcers (PUs), and to determine the predictive power of specific sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on wound healing and infection.

Method: This longitudinal study included participants with stage III and IV PUs who were recruited from 10 acute care settings of an Italian university hospital, and who were managed with a protocol inspired by the TIMECare model. Data were collected between October 2018 and March 2019.

Self-efficacy, burnout and academic success in nursing students: A counterfactual mediation analysis.

Aim: To test the mediating role of burnout in the relationship between self-efficacy and academic success in nursing students.

Design: This was a cross-sectional secondary analysis of longitudinal research aimed at exploring the academic success of nursing students.

Methods: We enrolled a convenience sample of nursing students attending 21 Italian baccalaureate nursing degree programmes.

Nurses' Quality of Life Scale: Validation and Psychometric Properties.

The Nursing Quality of Life Scale (NQOLS) is a 28-item self-report measure evaluating the four dimensions of nurses' quality of life, namely, the physical, emotional, working, and social dimensions. The purpose of this study is to assess the psychometric properties, including validity and reliability, of the NQOLS. The study enrolled 1105 nurses who provided direct assistance to patients.

Development and psychometric evaluation of the motivation for nursing student scale (MNSS): a cross sectional validation study.

Objectives: To develop a self-report scale to measure academic motivation among nursing students and to test its psychometric properties.

Methods: a cross-sectional validation study with a convenience sample of nursing students (n=1,635) was performed. The Motivation Nursing Students Scale was developed; content, face, construct validity, hypothesis testing and reliability were evaluated.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory for Nursing Students.

Background: Higher education students, especially nursing students, have drawn more attention as a group that is vulnerable to the risk of developing burnout syndrome.

Purpose: To test the psychometric properties of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory in Nursing (OLBI-N).

Methods: The OLBI-N validity and reliability was tested in a sample of 476 nursing students.

A mixed methods study of an organization's approach to the COVID-19 health care crisis.

Background: Healthcare emergency can increase work-related stress and reduce nurses' job satisfaction and quality of life. Managerial decisions and proactive interventions implemented to react to the emergency ensure the best patient outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to verify whether a proactive organizational approach can limit nurses' work-related stress and help preserve their job satisfaction and quality of life during a health emergency.

Academic failure and its predictors in Baccalaureate nursing students: A longitudinal study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic and academic characteristics of nursing students who report academic failure and to identify the determinants of academic failure (no degree on time) in a population of nursing students.

Background: Although prior studies have shown that academic failure is influenced by multiple factors, the studies mentioned have mostly focused on specific single variables associated with academic failure, and they have reported inconsistent results.

Design: A prospective follow-up study design was used in an Italian Baccalaureate Nursing Degree program.

Nursing students' academic self-efficacy: A longitudinal analysis of academic self-efficacy changes and predictive variables over time.

Aim: To analyse any changes seen in the academic self-efficacy of nursing students during the three years of their academic education as well as the associated predictive factors.

Design: A longitudinal study design was applied.

Methods: The sample included 220 students who attended a large university in central Italy.

An integrated system for Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter tip confirmation in oncology and haematology patients.

Introduction: Although there are many methods to confirm vascular device tip, chest x-ray represents the recommended procedure to verify the correct positioning of a central device, but it exposes patients to x-rays, delays treatment, and permits device length to be checked post-procedure.

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter positioning through an Integrated System (ultrasound-guided and electrocardiogram confirmation).

Methods: A case-control study was conducted on a randomized sample of 165 patients, requiring Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter placement for chemotherapy treatment.

Outcomes of wound care nurses' practice in patients with pressure ulcers: An integrative review.

Background: Wound care nurses are recognised as a key element for improving health outcomes. However, there is still fragmented knowledge of the outcomes associated with their practice in individuals with pressure ulcers.

Aims And Objectives: To identify, summarise and map all available evidence related to the outcomes of wound care nurses' practice in individuals with pressure ulcers.