Nurses' Perception of Caring and Attitudes toward Caring for Dying Patients: Exploring the Relationship Using a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Design.

This study examines the association between nurses' perception of caring and attitudes toward caring for dying patients in end-of-life care units. We used a descriptive cross-sectional design with convenience sampling. Data were collected from May to June 2021 through self-reported questionnaires from 303 Spanish nurses (mean age = 48 years, 78.

Attitudes Toward Organ Donation: Differences Between Medical and Nursing Andalusian Students.

Introduction: A favorable attitude toward organ donation and transplantation (ODT) is fundamental among health professionals at the time of transplant promotion. In this sense, the training and awareness of professionals are fundamental.

Objective: To analyze the differences in the attitude toward ODT and the factors that condition it among Andalusian medical and nursing students.

[Who is the user of socio-health interventions and what are their needs?].

Socio-health interventions include performance and care intended to attend to the needs of people who have suffered a decrease in their personal autonomy because of their age, illness or disability. Oriented towards achieving an improvement in the quality of life of people in that situation, they try to meet the requirements of people in an integrated way. To intervene in those situations involves providing technical aids and environmental, custom and social changes as well as personal care needed to improve their quality of life and enhance their skills and well-being.

Validity of the Spanish version of the Emotional Labour Scale.

In this article we address concerns raised by Brumit and Glenn (2013) regarding the validity of the Spanish version of the Emotional Labour Scale (ELS). We respond to requests in relation to the translated version of the scale and the eigenvalue series. We also give an explanation of the differences in results between the original version and the Spanish version of the scale.

The Spanish version of the Emotional Labour Scale (ELS): a validation study.

Aim: To validate the Spanish version of the Emotional Labour Scale (ELS), an instrument widely used to understand how professionals working with people face emotional labor in their daily job.

Method: An observational, cross-sectional and multicenter survey was used. Nursing students and their clinical tutors (n=211) completed the self-reported ELS when the clinical practice period was over.

[Nursing role versus European role. The difficult bridge between teaching and health assistance in the new Europe].

The goal is to achieve that the maximum possible number of nurses arrive at the deep conviction that practice without theory is only routine and that theory without practice which justifies it is empty erudition. Therefore, the objective of this article is to reflect about the excessively frequent incoherence between that which is taught in schools and the practice which is carried out by the great number of nurses in our country.