The Development and Validation of an Intercultural Nursing Educator Profile Using the Delphi Method.

Introduction: Educators require focused training to foster the development of intercultural competence in nurses. Training programs for educators need to be based on a comprehensive profile with a focus on intercultural learning. This study aims to define and validate a profile of the Intercultural Nursing Educator (INE).

Educating to sexuality care: the nurse educator's experience in a multicenter study.

Background: Sexuality is an issue inherent in the lives of all human beings. Education for Sexuality takes place informally, through relationships with the environment, with the family as a model, and formally, as a pedagogical practice in Teaching. Education for sexuality is recognized as an instrument of social transformation that leads to changes in behaviors and norms related to sexuality.

Adaptation and Validation of the Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for the Italian Context.

Background: Nurses dealing with a patient's sexuality must start from an awareness of their own experience, specific attitudes, and possible limits. What emerges from the literature is a conservative tendency in nurses, which underlines the difficulty in this awareness, but even a difficulty in improving the necessary knowledge/skills. It is, therefore, essential to create tools that can raise awareness of these limits.

How parents and health professionals experience prematurity in an Italian neonatal intensive care: A grounded theory study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore prematurity as a psycho-social process from the point of view of both parents and healthcare professionals.

Design And Methods: We conducted a Grounded Theory study through semi-structured interviews. Participants were from an Italian Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, including parents of premature children, and health professionals.

Theorising about child maltreatment: Narrative review on health education models, conceptual frameworks and the importance of the information and communication technologies.

Child maltreatment is conceived as a public health problem. Therefore, it is appropriate to analyse the explanatory models that deal with this behaviour, reflecting these postulates within the panorama of health education, which makes health professionals responsible for taking action. In order to do this, the theoretical context and the awareness of nursing students in relation to these theories must be analysed.

Attitudes and Beliefs of Portuguese and American Nursing Students about Patients' Sexuality.

Unlabelled: Nursing school graduates must be prepared to interact comfortably and effectively with patients about their sexual health. This study analyses the attitudes and beliefs about patient sexuality held by Portuguese and American nursing students.

Objective: In Portuguese and American nursing students, (1) we analyzed students' attitudes and beliefs towards sexuality using the Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey (SABS); (2) we identified nationality, socio-demographic information, and affective-sexual beliefs and attitudes.

Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQoL-F): Cultural Adaptation and Validation of European Portuguese Version.

Unlabelled: The Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQoL-F) questionnaire was developed with qualitative data to assess the impact of sexual dysfunction in women.

Objectives: the aim was to conduct a cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric analysis of a European Portuguese version of the Sexual Quality of Life-Female questionnaire.

Methods: Methodological study of the processes of translation and cultural adaptation.

Cultural Competence and Cultural Sensitivity Education in University Nursing Courses. A Scoping Review.

Unlabelled: When assessing the fragility that characterizes the health of an immigrant person, a culturally competent transformation of the nurse-patient teaching-learning process is necessary. Therefore, it is considered essential to incorporate cultural competence and intercultural communication in higher nursing education.

Objective: To determine the content and knowledge of cultural competence and intercultural communication offered in higher education in nursing courses.

Sexual Competence in Higher Education: Global Perspective in a Multicentric Project in the Nursing Degree.

Sexuality is an important issue in the university careers of nursing students to ensure that they provide comprehensive care. It is necessary according to the recommendation of the World Health Organization. However, research reveals deficiencies and the need for further development.

Online Education for Vaccination Competence Among Health Sciences Students.

The EDUVAC project aims to develop and implement a web-based course on educating vaccination competence among health sciences students. In the current study students' feedback and evaluation is assessed which guided the partners' efforts to improve the final course content and learning material that will be available for open access. After completing the web-based course, most of the students (N=103, 75.

[The linguistic and cultural validation of a tool to evaluate the cultural competence in nurses].

Introduction: Cultural competence is described as a complex process of elements useful to work in an intercultural context. It could be evaluated with several different tools. In literature different English scales are available, and all of them start from the operator's perception.

[Multicenter validation of an evaluation tool for clinical training activities (SVAT) of the nursing students].

Objective: To evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Scheda di Valutazione delle Attività di Tirocinio (SVAT).

Method: The degree courses in Nursing of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, site of Reggio Emilia, the University of Bologna Formative Section BO1, Imola and training center of Cesena, the University of Ferrara training centers of Ferrara and Codigoro were all enrolled in the research. For the content validation the reactive Delphi method was chosen.

[Planning With Nanda, Noc, Nic Taxonomies In Neurologic Rehabilitation. A clinical study].

Introduction: Nursing classifications identify a specific professional responsibility, increase nursing visibility, according with nursing evolution of these last years.

Objective: To evaluate care planning with NANDA taxonomy in neurologic rehabilitation context.

Method: Care plan managing with NANDA taxonomy, regarding diagnosis of constipation and impaired skin integrity, using a computerized tool for systematically observation, organized in check list.

[Nursing between ethic and aesthetic. Profession described by media].

Unlabelled: Nurse's role, according to the media, does not fit the role and evolution that nursing had in these last years: nursing remains unknown to public. Objective of research is to define how nurse's image is described by media.

Method: analysis of two newspapers, at national and local level with respect to articles about nurses, taking into account numbers of articles, position, topic (malpractice, frauds/crimes, job/economical cuts, praise).

[Study to assess the level of knowledge of the Security Law in nurses].

Proposal of the recent Security Law, which regulates access of irregular immigrants to health services , provoked much debate and uprising. However, little attention was paid to its approval, after substantial modification. This study was performed to assess how much nurses know about this law, by means of a questionnaire issued to 200 nurses working in one hospital.