Publications by authors named "Anita Bevilacqua"

Article Synopsis
  • The use of thickened fluids is common for patients with swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) as a way to improve their swallowing safety.
  • However, evidence supporting the effectiveness of thickened fluids in preventing aspiration pneumonia and other complications is limited, and it may lead to negative outcomes like dehydration and malnutrition.
  • A recent study found no difference in mortality between patients on thickened diets and those who weren’t, but there was an increased risk of respiratory complications, emphasizing the need for personalized strategies in treatment.
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In recent decades, Italy has been exposed to significant migrant flows resulting from political and economic instability in neighbouring countries. As a result, there has been an increased amount of cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD) among nursing students. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of CALD nursing students as lived in the Italian nursing programmes.

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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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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: . An overview of education models for nursing students clinical practice: a literature review.

Introduction: In the past decade the nursing education research developed and tested a number of clinical educational models.

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Purpose: Intravenous (IV) fluid therapy is widely used in hospitalized patients. It has been internationally studied in surgical patients, but little attention to date has been dedicated to medical patients within the Italian context. The aims of the present study were to describe the prevalence of fluid therapy and associated factors among Italian patients admitted to medical and surgical units, describe the methods used to manage fluid therapy, and analyze the monitoring of patients by clinical staff.

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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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Hydration with hypodermoclysis in elderly patients. Hypodermoclysis is a technique which consists in the administration of fluids into the subcutaneous tissue for the treatment of mild to moderate dehydration. The article starts from the case of a 74 year old man that, after a stroke, was unable to eat or drink, and was then hydrated with continuous hypodermoclysis for 45 days, obtaining a recovery of the clinical and psychological conditions.

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Unlabelled: Collaboration implies working together, communication, sharing decisions. A good doctors-nurses integration is the basis for reducing length of stay and improve health professionals' satisfaction.

Aim: This study analyzed the attitudes on collaboration (including factors that promote or hinder it) of a group of 16 nurses and 14 physicians working in two general medical wards of St.

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