Development of a scale to gain insight into the experience of living with chronic heart failure: The UNAV-Experience of Living with Chronic Heart Failure Scale.

Background: To date, there are no tools for the nursing staff to gain systematic insight on the experience lived by patients with chronic heart failure. The objective of this study was to develop a scale for this purpose.

Methods: The study was conducted between January 2018 and December 2020 in three Spanish hospitals.

The significance of exploring conceptual equivalence within the process of the cross-cultural adaptation of tools: The case of the Patient's Perception of Feeling Known by their Nurses Scale.

Introduction: The exploration of conceptual equivalence within the process of the cross-cultural adaptation of tools is usually neglected as it generally assumed that the theoretical construct of a tool is conceptualized in the same way in both the original and target culture. This article attempts to throw light on the contribution of the evaluation of conceptual equivalence to the process of adaptation, and for tool development. To illustrate this premise, the example of the cross-cultural adaptation of the Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by their Nurses (PPFKN) Scale is presented.

Implementation and evaluation of a training programme to promote the development of professional competences in nursing: A pilot study.

Background: Clinical narratives may be used as a means to improve the acquisition of clinical competences. Even though there are studies that recognize the potential value of clinical narratives to promote nursing professional development, there is no evidence that shows their value as a tool to improve nurses' competences to provide person-centred nursing care.

Purpose: To evaluate the preliminary efficacy of narratives for the development of three nursing professional competences -respect, intentional presence and knowing the person- for providing person-centred care.

Redefining a 'new normality': A hermeneutic phenomenological study of the experiences of patients with chronic heart failure.

Aim: To explore the perception of normality in life experienced by patients with chronic heart failure.

Design: A hermeneutic phenomenological study was conducted.

Methods: Individual conversational interviews were held with 20 outpatients with chronic heart failure between March 2014-July 2015.

Nursing narratives and reflective practice: A theoretical review.

Aim: To explore the literature regarding how nursing narratives have been used to enhance reflective practice.

Design: Theoretical review.

Data Sources: A literature search from 1990 - 2017 was conducted in PubMed, CINHAL and PsycINFO databases.

[Improving our mobility in Europe: The EHTAN Project].

To promote the mobility of nursing professionals among the countries members of the European Union may be an efficient measure to alleviate the shortage of nurses. An important limitation for this mobility consists in the lack of knowledge about the different cultures and with regards to the competencies, formation and nursing practices which exist in these distinct countries. At the present time, there is no method or instrument available which permits a comparison.