Technology acceptance and use among nursing staff in Latin American hospitals: A mixed methods study.

Background: Digital health technologies can improve health outcomes and the efficiency of healthcare delivery when used appropriately. Nevertheless, the human-computer interaction is a concern in compassionate patient care and nurses' professional well-being.

Objective: To analyze the degree of technological acceptance and use within nurses in two Latin American university hospitals.

Feeding and Nutrition for People with Dementia in Gerontological Services: A Focus Group Study.

Purpose: This work sought to describe the experience of managers and caregivers with feeding and nutrition for older adults with dementia, in Colombian gerontological services.

Participants And Methods: This is a qualitative focus group study with fourteen gerontological care centers for people with dementia.

Results: The study reveals that care related to food and nutrition for people with dementia is organized based on the comprehensive assessment of the resident.

The Nursing Inter Shift Handover: A Moment of Care for Patients and Their Family Caregivers.

The transfer between nursing shifts must guarantee the quality of care for patients and their families in the hospital. This study aimed to transform the handover between nursing shifts to strengthen the care capacity of patients and their family caregivers, and improve the care capacity of nursing staff, in a Latin American university hospital. This is a Nursing Methodology Research developed in the following phases: (a) identification of the best handover practices between nursing shifts to apply them within the institutional culture; (2) diagnosis of the transfer between shifts in the hospital; (3) design and validation of the transformation proposal; (4) measurement of transfer indicators; and (5) definition of a path to improve this transfer.

Nutritional Care for Institutionalized Persons with Dementia: An Integrative Review.

Background: Older people are at risk of malnutrition, especially when they suffer from cognitive impairment. Guidelines that orient nursing care in this regard need to be updated. The aim of this review is to address the best available evidence on interventions that can benefit nutritional nursing care for institutionalized older adults with dementia.

Effects of the discharge plan on the caregiving load of people with chronic disease: Quasi-experimental study.

Objective: To determine the effect of an anticipated care plan, structured around hospital discharge (PC-AH-US), regarding the caregiving load of people with NTCD residing in Colombia, 2019-2021.

Method: This is a quasi-experimental study with pre- and post-intervention measurements. It includes 1170 participants who represented 585 chronic disease patient-caregiver pairs.

Preliminary Effectiveness of a Strategy to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Schoolchildren.

Purpose: To measure the preliminary effectiveness of a strategy to promote healthy lifestyle habits in schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12 years, living in the Andean region of Colombia, 2018-2021.

Design And Methods: This is a Nursing Methodological Research, developed in phases: (1) Context and schoolchildren characterization; (2) Strategy design guided by the Whittemore and Grey criteria and the Bronfenbrenner ecological conceptual model; (3) Strategy validation with 11 experts; (4) Trial to evaluate preliminary effectiveness. We applied the strategy in seven different schools with the educational community including 955 schoolchildren between 6 and 12 years of age, 551 parents, 130 teachers and 7 members of the food staff.

Development of a Professional Practice Nursing Model for a University Nursing School and Teaching Hospital: A nursing methodology research.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the process of developing a Professional Practice Model by a Nursing School and Nursing Department of University Hospital.

Design And Method (s): This is a descriptive nursing methodology research, developed along three stages: preliminary, empirical and validation. The empirical phase used qualitative and quantitative methodology.

Analytics and Lean Health Care to Address Nurse Care Management Challenges for Inpatients in Emerging Economies.

Purpose: Prescriptive and predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) provide tools to analyze data with objectivity. In this paper, we provide an overview of how these techniques can improve nursing care, and we detail a quantitative model to afford managerial insights about care management in a Hospital in Colombia. Our main purpose is to provide tools to improve key performance indicators for the care management of inpatients which includes the nurse workload.

Nursing Care at the Service of Life: A model including charity, quality, and leadership.

Background: Nursing professional practice models allow the focus on care and qualification of hospital service by articulating the theory to the practice of nursing care with the final purpose of improving the patient's and family caregivers' quality of life.

Objective: To describe the model "Nursing care at the service of life," built and validated in a Colombian clinic, 2019.

Method: A Nursing Methodology Research developed in four consecutive steps intended to identify the need to have a theoretical framework; to build it and validate it in a collective way that included the different members of the clinic nursing staff.

Education and Health: A Care Bond. School-Nursing Model for Colombia.

Objectives: To describe the construction and validation process of a Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia.

Methods: Study under the approach of "methodological research in nursing" carried out by the Colombian network of school nursing, with the participation of 26 nurses from different institutions in a research developed in three stages: revision of antecedents, identification and prioritizing of assumptions to construct the model, and validation of the preliminary proposal with the participants and with a group of experts.

Results: The study presents the components that were part of the construction of the model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia, which includes the four meta-paradigmatic elements of this professional discipline: the receptor of care, the context, nursing, and health, as well as the prioritized assumptions that indicate how these elements interact in achieving the student´s wellbeing and that of the education community.

Commitment and Human Tone: the Difference between Traditional Service and Nursing Care.

Objectives: To describe the transformation of decisive moments that arise within the nurse-patient and family caregiver interaction to turn them into moments of care capable of favoring adaptation.

Methods: In a high complexity hospital in the city of Bogotá (Colombia), a "nursing methodological research"-type study was conducted. It was developed in five stages: 1) identification of the institutional route of patients and their caregivers and, within it, the moments of encounter with nursing; 2) typical day of the nurse; 3) analysis of the nurse-patient and family caregiver encounters; 4) literature review on how to strengthen the nurse-patient and family caregiver relationship; and 5) proposal to transform decisive moments into moments of care.

Commitment and a sense of humanity for the adaptation of patients during hospital care.

Objective: To develop a nursing practice model for the Clinic of the University of the La Sabana that supports the adaptive process of patients during and after their hospital experience.

Methodology: This is a descriptive, methodological study implemented in different phases: (1) characterization of the context, (2) identification of the need for a nursing practice model for strengthening care, (3) literature review, (4) description of the model, and (5) validation.

Results: The context of a university hospital and international trends in the development of a professional nursing discipline require theoretical guidance for the ongoing improvement of the practice of nursing.

[Charging concept theoretical models disease chronic: a systematic review].

Objective: To describe the approach of cost of illness within the theoretical models of chronic non communicable disease (NCD).

Methodology: A systematic literature review was carried by defining observational parameters guided by the key words "theoretical, models" , "chronic disease" and "cost of illness" in 14 databases as Scielo, Medline, Science direct, Infotrac Health Reference Center Academic, including indexed publications of quantitative, qualitative, analysis and review articles, their publication language with an open time definition.

Results: 20 registered publications were found ranging from 2005 to 2012.

Validation of an instrument to assess the homecare competency of the family caregiver of a person with chronic disease.

Objective: This work sought to develop, validate, and determine the reliability of an instrument on Competency in Homecare of the family caregiver of an individual with chronic disease.

Methodology: The test validation study was carried out in the following phases: 1) literature review; 2) analysis of results of programs to help family caregivers in Latin America; 3) exploration of the classification of nursing results (NOC) related to the family caregiver and discharge; 4) proposal of an instrument of care competence; and 5) psychometric tests: apparent validity with 25 family caregivers of individuals with chronic disease and six experts in the area; construct validity and reliability through internal consistency with 311 family caregivers of chronic patients.

Results: The instrument on homecare competency of the family caregiver of an individual with chronic disease (CUIDAR, for the term in Spanish) has 60 items that inquire on six categories: knowledge, uniqueness, instrumentation, enjoyment of life, anticipation and relationships, and social interaction.

[Caring ability of family caregivers of children with cancer].

Objective To describe the caring ability of family caregivers of children with cancer. Method This is a descriptive, exploratory study with a quantitative approach. A sample of 85 family caregivers of children with cancer was taken.

Development of a functional model of nursing care in cancer.

Objective: To propose and validate a functional model that permits addressing, guiding, and qualifying nursing care in the Colombian National Cancer Institute.

Methodology: Within the framework of the teaching-service work and as response to the priorities established by the National Cancer Institute, the need to have a model was determined to better understand the nursing work in the institution. For this purpose a study was conducted in three phases: 1) Analysis of the context, 2) Elaboration and analysis of the narratives of care, and 3) Development of the Functional Model of Nursing Care from the narratives.

[Social support through using ICT for family caregivers regarding people suffering chronic disease].

Objective: The study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of social support using information and communication technology (ICT) for family caregivers regarding people suffering chronic disease.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive exploratory study involving 144 family caregivers for people suffering from chronic disease was carried out in Bogota during 2008 and 2009. It was carried out in three phases: planning and designing ICT strategies (including a pilot trial and selecting the target population), implementing the ICTs in support of the target population and data analysis regarding implementing the ICTs, with a description of the indicators of structure and process for ICT use and results of ICT use in providing social support.

[Evaluating a programme for strengthening family-caregivers' ability to care for the chronically ill].

Objective: The study evaluated the effectiveness of the "Caring for the caregivers" programme which was designed to strength family caregivers' ability to care for people suffering from chronic disease.

Methodology: The study used a quasi-experimental design, having study and control groups, and measured caring ability before and after the intervention. 250 family caregivers were included in the study.