Motivations for Enrolment and Dropout of First-Year Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Pilot Multimethod Study.

Background/objectives: Higher education institutions must improve the attractiveness and retention of the nursing profession to address the widespread shortage. This pilot multimethod study aimed to preliminarily understand the relationship between motivations for enrolment and dropout among first-year undergraduate nursing students.

Methods: A two-step approach was conducted among first-year nursing students from five Italian universities involving: (a) a baseline quantitative online survey collecting their characteristics and motivations for enrolment; (b) a follow-up semi-structured interview qualitative data collection among students who dropped out.

Moral Distress and Its Determinants among Nursing Students in an Italian University: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Moral Distress (MD) is a unique form of distress that occurs when people believe they know the ethically correct action to take but are constrained from doing so. Limited clinical experience and insufficient ethical knowledge contribute to nursing students' MD, which can potentially cause negative outcomes. The aims of this study are: (1) to describe the MD intensity of nursing students, and (2) to analyze differences and associations between MD intensity and socio-demographic and academic variables.

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Nursing students' Health Literacy skills: a scoping review protocol for driving research.

Introduction: The healthcare systems in Europe are changing rapidly due to the increased complexity of healthcare needs, specifically for the ageing population with chronic diseases. Nurses play a key role in providing care for patients with chronic diseases, encouraging patients to take care of their own health improving their Health Literacy (HL) too. Previous works have highlighted the paucity of HL content in nursing curricula, and the need to prioritise the development of HL skills in academic teaching and assessment methods.

Perceptions of nursing staff and students regarding attrition: a qualitative study.

Objectives: This research aims to explore the perceptions of nursing students and directors of bachelor of nursing degree courses regarding reasons for attrition amongst nursing students.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using inductive thematic analysis. The study included a purposeful sample of 12 students and 4 directors of bachelor of nursing degree courses.

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.

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.

Variables Predicting Academic Success of Nursing Students: a Longitudinal Study in a Nursing Bachelor's Degree Program.

Background: Academic failure can negatively impact on the student, the university and the nursing workforce in the short term. The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics and predictors of academic success in two cohorts of students of a Nursing Bachelor's Degree program.

Methods: This longitudinal study enrolled students who attended the Nursing Bachelor's Degree program.

Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study.

Background: Moral distress, defined as moral suffering or a psychological imbalance, can affect nursing students. However, many new instruments or adaptations of other scales that are typically used to measure moral distress have not been used for nursing students.

Aim: This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Italian version of the Moral Distress Scale for Nursing Students (It-ESMEE) for use with delayed nursing students (students who could not graduate on time or failed the exams necessary to progress to the next level).

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.

Nursing students' satisfaction with the curriculum: An integrative review.

Background: Student satisfaction is one indicator of quality in higher education, allowing access to funding and coming with repercussions on student performance. This theme is considered complex and highly studied; however, in the nursing literature, there are no studies that summarize and combine the variables and predictors of satisfaction, as well as the existing conceptual models.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to define the following: 1) nursing students' academic satisfaction, 2) the existing theoretical models, 3) the academic satisfaction trend during the course, 4) the differences in academic satisfaction level between nursing student characteristics, and 5) the variables involved in the satisfaction process.

Nursing Students' Knowledge of Patient Safety and Development of Competences Over their Academic Years: Findings from a Longitudinal Study.

Introduction: Future nurses should possess the knowledge and competences necessary to ensure patient safety. However, little evidence is available on the way in which students learn patient safety-related principles over time. This study explored the progress of a cohort of Italian undergraduate nursing students as they acquired patient safety knowledge and competences from time of enrolment to graduation.

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.

A Longitudinal Study about Substance Abuse among Italian Nursing Students: Can We Define a Socio-demographic Profile?

Background: University time is considered to be a period of vulnerability among nursing students for substance abuse, which can create an unsafe clinical practice. The aim of this study was to investigate the substance abuse of nursing students in the form of alcohol, drugs and tobacco use during the course of studies. In addition, another study aim was to describe a typical socio-demographic profile for substance-abusing students.

Health habits of nursing students: A longitudinal study of health perceptions and health habits.

Aims And Objectives: To examine nursing students' health habits. More specifically, the objectives were to determine whether there were any changes in their health habits during their course of study, and to understand whether the students' perceptions about good health conditions cohered with their health-related behaviour.

Background: The transition from high school to university has an undesirable effect on students' health habits, and nursing students' unhealthy behaviours may prevent them from helping patients improve their poor health habits.

Rehabilitation strategies for low anterior resection syndrome. A systematic review.

Objective: To summarize the evidence in the literature about rehabilitative treatments that reduce low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) symptoms in patients who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer.

Methods: We have search in PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health and Scopus databases. Studies selected were limited to those including only patient undergone low rectal resection with sphincter preservation and with pre-post assessment with a LARS score.

Development and initial validation of a theory of planned behaviour questionnaire to assess the nursing students' Intention to be self-employed.

Background: Self-employment represents a new work opportunity for new nursing graduates; however, little is known about nursing students' Intention to meet this new demand from the labour market.

Aims: To develop a theory-driven questionnaire to assess students' Intentions for self-employment and psychometrically test this scale.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted investigating 344 nursing students in their final year in an Italian university.

Correction to: providing care to a family member affected by head and neck cancer: a phenomenological study.

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Academic self-efficacy in Bachelor-level nursing students: Development and validation of a new instrument.

Aims: An available strategy to counteract academic failure is the development and implementation of student academic self-efficacy; however, to date, there are no instruments measuring it. The aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically test an academic nurse self-efficacy scale.

Design: A longitudinal study design was used in accordance with Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of health status Measurement Instruments guidelines.

Providing care to a family member affected by head and neck cancer: a phenomenological study.

Background: Cancer is recognized as a family illness as many head and neck cancer (HNC) patients after treatment require assistance from a family caregiver throughout the rest of their life. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of primary family caregivers of HNC patients dealing with laryngectomy regarding their complex supportive role.

Methods: Phenomenological study based on individual interviews of twelve primary caregivers of HNC patients, recruited by purposeful sampling.

Bedside shift handover implementation quantitative evidence: Findings from a scoping review.

Aim: To map the research methods, frameworks, structures, processes and outcomes investigated to date when implementing nursing bedside shift reports (BSRs).

Background: BSRs have become an area of increased interest among nurse managers (NMs) with several projects aiming at implementing bedside reports also as a strategy to increase nursing surveillance and reduce adverse events. However, to date, no summary of the available evidence has been provided with regard to research methods, theoretical frameworks underpinning BSR implementation and outcomes aiming at supporting NM decision-making in this field.

Perioperative Pressure Injuries: A Systematic Literature Review.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review to investigate risk factors, incidence, and preventive strategies for perioperative pressure injuries (PIs).

Methods: The authors reviewed four databases for literature published from January 2001 to December 2017. Selected articles included primary quantitative studies with prospective, descriptive, and longitudinal design or randomized controlled trials that evaluated risk factors, incidence, and preventive strategies for perioperative PIs.

Listening to the voice of patients with head and neck cancer: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.

The aim was to conduct a systematic review and a meta-synthesis of primary qualitative studies exploring experiences of head and neck cancer patients (HNC) undergoing radio and/or chemotherapy, in order to provide a better understanding of this phenomenon and supply new directions for care and clinical practice. Six databases were systematically searched, and 13 studies were included. The meta-synthesis methodology was adopted to conceptualise the way in which patients lived their cancer journey and the impact of treatments on their daily life.