Violence Against Nurses During Care: A Systematic Review.

Aims: To analyse and synthesise knowledge on workplace violence perpetrated by patients and caregivers against nurses, its consequences and strategies to prevent this phenomenon.

Design: A systematic review of the literature was conducted following the method of the Center for Reviews and Determination and reported in accordance with the PRISMA checklist. A pre-defined protocol was designed (PROSPERO ID: CRD42023432271).

Navigating Improper Care Settings: Nurses' Experiences Assisting Oncological Patients at the End of Life in Surgical Departments.

Background: Despite the growing preference for end-of-life care at home, numerous oncological patients continue to spend their final moments in surgical wards. This incongruity in settings may contribute to "dysthanasia," unnecessarily prolonging futile treatments and resulting in undue suffering. As frontline caregivers, nurses frequently bear the brunt of these challenging situations for patients and their families.

Cancer nurses' experience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Multicenter mixed-methods study on coping and resilience strategies.

Background: In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic created severe difficulties in clinical and organizational fields. Healthcare workers needed to protect their health and avoid infecting their family members, but also limit the virus's spread among vulnerable oncology patients undergoing hospital treatment.

Objective: To evaluate the resilience and coping strategies of nurses working in the oncology setting.

The perception of dignity in the hospitalized patient: Findings from a meta-synthesis.

Dignity is a value inherent to all human beings, guaranteed to every individual from birth, and influenced by culture and society. It is protected by various laws and declarations, and represents one of the fundamental human rights. Preserving human dignity is an essential aspect of nursing practice and a central element of care.

Outcomes of patient education in adult oncologic patients receiving oral anticancer agents: a systematic review protocol.

Background: A large variety of oral anticancer agents have become available and while at first glance these therapies appear to provide only benefits, patients have expressed their need for educational interventions and raised safety issues. Although both patients and providers have recognized patient education's importance, and an interplay with safety has been acknowledged, no systematic reviews of the literature that summarize all of the current evidence related to patient education's outcomes for patients who receive oral anticancer agents have been performed to date. Accordingly, this systematic review will attempt to fill the gap in the literature as well as to map (1) contents, (2) methodologies, (3) settings, (4) timing/duration, and (5) healthcare professionals involved.

The differences between learned and practiced competences among nurses: An international pilot study.

Aim: The primary aim was to describe differences, if any, between learned and practiced competences among a convenience sample of Italian and Slovenian nursing staff; the secondary aim was to validate an instrument capable of measuring internationally such competences.

Background: The distance between competences learned and those practiced as a source of under- or over-education has not been investigated to date at the international level.

Design: A explorative observational investigation was performed in 2019 by involving 426 Italian and Slovenian members of the nursing staff working in medical and surgical departments.

Perceived Barriers and Enablers of Nursing Research in the Italian Context: Findings from a Systematic Review.

Introduction: The research capacity of nurses has been reported to be still constrained in several countries, and not fully implemented in its potentiality due to a large number of factors. Despite its relevance both for clinical and public health purposes, no summary has been compiled to date regarding factors influencing the research capacity in the Italian context. Therefore, the primary aim of this review was to identify the barriers and enablers of conducting research as perceived by Italian nurses.

Communication experiences of tracheostomy patients with nurses in the ICU: A scoping review.

Introduction: The quality of care for tracheostomy and mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICUs) has improved considerably. However, the communication barrier attributable to these procedures generates many problems for patients, as they are unable to communicate effectively with family members and ICU healthcare professionals, especially nurses.

Aims: To describe (1) tracheostomy patients' needs, emotions and difficulties when communicating with ICU nurses and (2) which strategies nurses and patients have adopted to improve their communication.

Nursing students' self-directed learning abilities and related factors at graduation: A multi-country cross-sectional study.

Aim: To describe nursing students' level of self-directed learning abilities and identify possible factors related to it at graduation in six European countries.

Design: A cross-sectional comparative design across the countries.

Methods: The study was conducted from February 2018 to September 2019.

[The conceptualization of nursing in the Italian literature: an integrative analysis to inform theory development].

Introduction: Nursing theories are essential for orienting nursing practice. To date, three models for nursing practice have been developed in Italy. In addition, significant epistemological reflections have been published, sparking a rich professional debate regarding the theoretical foundations of nursing in Italy.

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.

The power of informal cancer caregivers' writings: results from a thematic and narrative analysis.

Background: Cancer is a disease that disrupts not only the patient's life, but that of the entire family as well, from a care, organizational, and emotional perspective. Patients share their experience of illness frequently with their informal caregiver (IC), a partner, son/daughter, friend, volunteer, or any other person in the family or social network who offers to support them during their clinical journey. The purpose of this study was to investigate ICs' still unknown cancer experiences through the stories of IC participants in a Literary Artistic Competition the Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCSS organized, and understand the themes that emerged from their texts and hence, the power of expressive writing.

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.

Priorities for Cancer Research From the Viewpoints of Cancer Nurses and Cancer Patients: A Mixed-Method Systematic Review.

Background: Setting priorities in oncology is a useful way to produce a robust set of research questions that researchers can address.

Objective: The aim of this review was to describe cancer nurses and patients' main research priorities and describe their development over time.

Methods: A mixed-method systematic review was conducted for the period from 2000 to 2018 through a search of multiple databases.

[The development of nursing research ten years after the establishment of PhD Schools of Nursing in Italy].

Introduction: In Italy, the nursing doctoral programs were established in 2006, and after ten years we though it would be important to understand how nursing research in Italy has developed thanks to its four doctoral schools of nursing. Our research question was: How have the Italian doctoral schools of nursing contributed to the development of nursing research in the last ten years?

Methods: A national descriptive observational was conducted to collect all the publications made by the four nursing doctoral schools in Florence, Genoa, L'Aquila, and Rome between 2006 and 2015. For the enrolment of the participants, an online survey was sent to the e-mail address of each student provided by the reference University.

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

The name of Luca Ghirotto was incorrectly captured in the original manuscript.

The awareness of contextual factors, placebo and nocebo effects among nursing students: Findings from a cross-sectional study.

Contextual Factors (CFs) have been documented to influence nursing interventions and patients' outcomes triggering placebo/nocebo effects. However, given that no studies to date have explored the beliefs and the use of CFs among nursing students, a cross-sectional study was undertaken. Two Italian nursing programmes were involved and a self-administered survey tool was used.

Evaluating self-directed learning abilities as a prerequisite of health literacy among older people: Findings from a validation and a cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To validate a tool measuring self-directed learning (SDL) abilities and to determine these abilities among older individuals attending the University of the Third Age.

Background: Health literacy (HL) and SDL abilities have been documented as being closely linked to each other and as prerequisites in enhancing self-management competences required by older people to protect their health and to manage health issues. Furthermore, individuals with SDL abilities have been documented to have a full understanding of their health treatment prescriptions, to be able to demonstrate increased compliance and to further develop self-care competences.

[Research in Italian nursing practice: an extensive review of literature].

Purpose: To identify orientations in Italian nursing research regarding nursing practice, highlighting strengths, needs for improvement, as well as suggestions and recommendations for promoting the future development of nursing knowledge.

Method: An extensive review of the literature was conducted (scoping review) by consulting the following databases: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Biosis and Scopus, for the time interval between January 2006 and July 2016.

Results: Out of a total of 5635 publications, 35 were identified as relevant to the research question.

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.

The contribution of nursing doctoral schools to the development of evidence 10 years after their establishment in Italy: An exploratory descriptive survey of former and current doctoral students' publications.

Aim: To analyse through an exploratory descriptive survey how former and current doctoral students' publications have contributed to the development of evidence between the establishment of the doctoral schools of nursing in 2006-2015.

Design: An exploratory descriptive survey.

Methods: We analysed the papers published in peer-reviewed journals by the four Italian PhD Schools of Nursing between 2006-2015.

Patients experiences of bedside handover: findings from a meta-synthesis.

Background: Bedside shift reports have been recently recommended to ensure handovers. However, no evidence summarising studies designed to determine the qualitative approaches capable of better understanding patient experience have been published to date.

Aim: The aim of this study was to acquire a deeper understanding of the experiences of patients regarding bedside shift reports.

Contextual factors triggering placebo and nocebo effects in nursing practice: Findings from a national cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe contextual factors (CFs) used by nurses to increase placebo and to prevent nocebo effects.

Background: Placebo effects have been studied in the nursing discipline, but nocebo effects still remain unexplored. Recently, a set of CFs functioning as triggers of placebo/nocebo effects has been described; however, its use in daily care has never been documented to date.