Reliability and validity of the Italian Version of the Chase Nurse Manager Competencies Scale.

Objectives: This study aimed to translate and test the psychometric properties of the Chase Nurse Manager Competency Instrument (CNMCI) among Italian nurse managers and to provide further support for the scale's validity testing.

Methods: An instrument translation and cross-sectional validation study was conducted. The English version was translated into Italian using the translation method, which included pre-translation (establishing equivalence), initial translation, pretesting, review, and administration.

Trust in the Leader, Organizational Commitment, and Nurses' Intention to Leave-Insights from a Nationwide Study Using Structural Equation Modeling.

Nursing retention is a major challenge globally. Ongoing workforce instability across countries underscores the need to understand the factors influencing turnover and nursing retention. Trust is a crucial element in managing workplace relationships between nurse managers and nurses.

Decoding Nursing Job Demands: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Assessing Nursing Workload in Hospital Medical-Surgical Wards.

Background: Nursing workload is largely studied but poorly explored under physical, mental, and emotional dimensions. Currently, only a limited number of variables have been linked to nursing workload and work contexts.

Purpose: The study aimed to investigate whether it is feasible to identify variables that consistently correlate with nursing workload and others that are specific to the context.

Self-Perceived Clinical Competence of Nurses in Different Working Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Competence is an essential concept for measuring nurses' performance in terms of effectiveness and quality. To this end, our analysis highlighted the process of acquiring competencies, their self-evaluation into clinical practice, and how their proficiency levels change throughout the nursing career. In detail, this research explored nurses' perceived level of competence and the factors that influence it in different contexts.

Assessment of the Psychometric Characteristics of the Italian Version of the Nurse Manager Actions Scale.

Nurse managers play a vital role in healthcare organizations, wielding the ability to substantially enhance work environments, foster nurses' autonomy, and bolster retention within workplaces. In this context, this study focuses on the Nurse Manager Actions scale, aiming to evaluate its items' scalability as well as the scale's validity and reliability among nurses and nurse managers operating within the Italian healthcare context. The study protocol was not registered.

Nurse-Patient Communication and Relationship When Wearing Personal Protective Equipment: Nurses' Experience in a COVID-19 Ward.

Little is known about which communication strategies nurses carried out and whether the nurse-patient relationship has been altered due to the mandated use of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study describes how nurse-patient communication and relationships took place from the point of view of nurses engaged in caring for patients with COVID-19. A qualitative descriptive study design following COREQ guidelines was conducted.

Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Leader Member Exchange Scale (LMX-7): A Validation Study.

For decades, scholars have studied leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships to understand and explain the effects of leadership on follower attitudes and performance outcomes within work settings. One available instrument to measure these aspects is the LMX-7 scale. This measurement has been widely used in empirical studies, but its psychometric properties have been poorly explored.

Evaluation of Standard Precautions Compliance Instruments: A Systematic Review Using COSMIN Methodology.

Background: Standard precautions (SPs) are first-line strategies with a dual goal: to protect health care workers from occupational contamination while providing care to infected patients and to prevent/reduce health care-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed at (1) identifying the instruments currently available for measuring healthcare professionals' compliance with standard precautions; (2) evaluating their measurement properties; and (3) providing sound evidence for instrument selection for use by researchers, teachers, staff trainers, and clinical tutors.

Methods: We carried out a systematic review to examine the psychometric properties of standard precautions self-assessment instruments in conformity with the COSMIN guidelines.

Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Trust Me Scale-Italian Version: A Validation Study.

Background: The Trust Me Scale is a widely used instrument to measure trust in healthcare providers. However, no Italian version of the scale exists yet, limiting its use in Italian-speaking populations. The aim of this study is to translate and validate the Trust Me Scale for use in Italian-speaking populations in nurses and nurse managers.

Appraisal and Evaluation of the Learning Environment Instruments of the Student Nurse: A Systematic Review Using COSMIN Methodology.

Background: Nursing education consists of theory and practice, and student nurses' perception of the learning environment, both educational and clinical, is one of the elements that determines the success or failure of their university study path. This study aimed to identify the currently available tools for measuring the clinical and educational learning environments of student nurses and to evaluate their measurement properties in order to provide solid evidence for researchers, educators, and clinical tutors to use in the selection of tools.

Methods: We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the psychometric properties of self-reported learning environment tools in accordance with the Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) Guidelines of 2018.

Nurses' Organization of Work and Its Relation to Workload in Medical Surgical Units: A Cross-Sectional Observational Multi-Center Study.

Introduction: Work contexts can affect nurses' work and work outcomes. Work context factors of nurses, patients, or workflow can modulate nurses' organization of work and determine increased workloads.

Aim: The aim of this research was to analyze relationships between factors regarding the patient, the nurse, workflow, and nurses' work organization, to investigate whether work organization is related to physical, mental, and emotional workloads, and to explore whether one dimension of workload influences the other dimensions.

What determines physical, mental and emotional workloads on nurses? A cross-sectional study.

Aim: This study aimed to identify determinants of physical, mental and emotional nursing workloads.

Background: Workload has a physical, mental and emotional dimension. It influences employees' well-being and quality of care.

Back to the Roots of Nursing: Qualitative Study on the Experience of Nurses in the Front Line During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 emergency has led many health facilities to reorganize themselves in a very short time to meet the urgent needs for intensive, semi-intensive or ordinary care of SARS-CoV-2 patients. In this pandemic, characterized by speed of transmission and severity of respiratory symptoms, care has been affected by the increase in volume and clinical complexity of patients, the sudden and unpredictable staff decrease and the lack of support from family members / caregivers. At the same time, experience in the field has shown how "informal" resources have been activated, which enabled to treat the highest possible number of patients above the real availability of resources.

Essential elements in determining patient's complexity of nursing care.

Background: Nurses dedicate majority of working time to satisfy patients' needs, which are oftentimes complex. Although the concept of patient's complexity of care (PCC) has been extensively studied, it remains undefined in its essential characteristics. Various tools for assessing PCC have been developed, yet, there is no gold standard of reference.

Identification of nursing workload determinants for management of staffing resources: a cross-sectional pilot study.

Background: Top managers and policy makers measure nursing workload (NW) based on nurse-to-patient ratios or on nursing hours per patient a day, as a standard. To offer patients care of quality and to prevent negative outcomes on staff, leaders should consider specific workflow aspects when determining staffing assets.

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify some of NW deter-minants, particularly those linked to adequacy of staffing resources.

The Role of the Leader on the nurses perception of work well-being.

Background: Work well-being can affect performance and quality of care. Previous literature described the influence of leadership styles on nurse turnover, job satisfaction, attitudes and behaviours. There is a need to explore more nurses' perception of their leaders and related effects in the work environment.

Adult oncology patients' experiences of living with a central venous catheter: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Background: The incidence of cancer is increasing globally, and a greater number of patients will receive treatments though central vascular access devices (CVADs). Only a few qualitative studies describe the experience of adult oncology patients living with CVADs, and no systematic review of literature has been published on this topic. We therefore aimed to systematically synthesize the evidence of the qualitative studies on the experience of adult oncology patients with CVADs to report the implications of living with this device, and to inform healthcare professionals (HCPs) about problematic aspects of care for this population.

Development and psychometric testing of a new measure of the determinants that influence the adoption of WhatsApp in hospitals.

Background: Healthcare contexts are witnessing a growing use of applications to support clinical processes and to communicate between peers and with patients. An increasing number of hospital professionals use instant-messaging applications such as WhatsApp in their daily work. Previous research has mainly focused on the advantages and risks of WhatsApp usage in different clinical settings, but limited evidence is available about whether and how individual and organizational determinants can influence the use of WhatsApp in hospitals.

Defining nursing workload predictors: A pilot study.

Aim: To explore predictors of perceived nursing workload in relation to patients, nurses and workflow.

Background: Nursing workload is important to health care organisations. It determines nurses' well-being and quality of care.

[Assessment of the perceived quality of nursing care in internship departments: an observational study in a Spanish reality].

Background: Nursing students represent an important resource both for the patients and for the company organization; however, the impact of their presence on the quality of care is still underestimated.

Objective: To provide an objective assessment of the quality of care perceived by the patient admitted to hospital departments where internships are held for nursing students.

Method: A descriptive observational study was conducted, recruiting a convenience sample made up of patients hospitalized in clinical departments where internships for nursing students of La Fe Hospital in Valencia (ES) are located.

What does the patient have to say? Valuing the patient experience to improve the patient journey.

Background: Patient-reported data-satisfaction, preferences, outcomes and experience-are increasingly studied to provide excellent patient-centred care. In particular, healthcare professionals need to understand whether and how patient experience data can more pertinently inform the design of service delivery from a patient-centred perspective when compared with other indicators. This study aims to explore whether timely patient-reported data could capture relevant issues to improve the hospital patient journey.

Managing the Journey of Patients under Chemotherapy in a Pandemic Era: A Nursing Perspective.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer patients' care needs to be reconsidered by integrating the patient's clinical pathway with the hospital patient journey and the family context in a safe and patient-centered way. So far, no systematic reports are available regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care. This work gives a first overview of patients' care needs undergoing chemotherapy treatment from a nursing perspective.

The opinions and feelings about their educational needs and role of familial caregivers of Parkinson's Disease patients: a qualitative study.

Background And Aim Of The Work: In the advanced stages of Parkinson's Disease, patients need complex care and support, especially at home, where they often receive assistance by familial caregivers. However, caregivers may be or feel unable to cope with their role and, despite the needs of caregivers are often assessed in the literature, their opinions and feelings about these needs are not widely explored yet. This study aimed at exploring the opinions and feelings about their educational needs and role of familial caregivers of Parkinson's Disease patients.

Unfinished Nursing Care Survey: A development and validation study.

Aims: To develop and validate a comprehensive tool based on those established in the field capable of reflecting the broader concept of Unfinished Nursing Care.

Background: Different tools have been established in the field of Missed Care, Rationing Care and Tasks Left Undone. However, despite them sharing similar items and all referring to the common concept of Unfinished Nursing Care, no attempts to collapse them in a single tool capable of reflecting current nursing practice, and its increased complexity, have been attempted to date.

Challenges and potential improvements in hospital patient flow: the contribution of frontline, top and middle management professionals.

Purpose: This study aims to describe and understand the contributions of frontline, middle and top management healthcare professionals in detecting areas of potential improvement in hospital patient flow and proposing solutions.

Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative interview study. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 professionals in the orthopedic department of a 250-bed academic teaching hospital.