What Kind of Interventions Were Perceived as Effective Against Coronavirus-19 in Nursing Homes in Italy? A Descriptive Qualitative Study.

Purpose: To identify interventions implemented during the first, second and third waves of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among Italian Nursing Homes (NHs).

Patients And Methods: A descriptive qualitative design according to COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative (COREQ) guideline. A purposeful sample of five public NHs, located in the north-east of Italy, equipped with from 60 to 151 beds, participated.

[Home dialysis and home assistance: from institutional aids to a sustainable model].

Home dialysis, and mainly peritoneal dialysis, is indicated as the optimal choice as far as the comfort and lifestyle of uremic patients is concerned. Despite this, home treatments show a lack of growth. The reasons are mainly linked to the patients’ cognitive, psychosocial, familiar and physical barriers due to aging and morbidity.

Factors influencing student nurses' perception of their clinical guides: a questionnaire survey.

Supporting student nurses whilst undertaking clinical training is an important activity for both educators and students, yet there is little consensus in the literature as to what constitutes support. Also, it is difficult to find a robust instrument that provides a valid measure of the quality of the clinical learning environment in different contexts. The aim of this study was to identify factors that influence student nurses' perception of their clinical tutors.

Italian public school: a pilot study about disorders related to nutrition and their management.

Objective: To know how Italian nursery and primary schools survey and manage children with food-related problems.

Design: A pilot study during the period March-May 2005, filling out a questionnaire.

Setting: All nursery and primary schools in a Northern Italian region (Friuli Venezia Giulia).

[The nurse's role in the management of patients with type 2, non-insulin-treated diabetes: the current state in Friuli Venezia Giulia].

Patient education is well known to be an essential aspect in the management of diabetes mellitus. This report aims to provide a general review of nursing care management for patients with diabetes mellitus, in particular non-insulin dependent type 2 diabetes, at either the inpatient or outpatient levels, in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Furthermore, it aims to identify the factors that may be preventing the implementation of adequate diabetes nursing care.