Factors affecting the unused short peripheral catheters: A neverending debate? A cross-sectional study in hospitalized patients.

Background: Concern about unused vascular access devices has increased, but data on idle short peripherally intravascular catheters in medical-surgical units is still scarce. We aimed to assess the prevalence of unused short peripheral catheters in hospitalized patients and identify risk factors and reasons that lead nurses to maintain them in situ.

Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was performed in September 2022.

To Get Vaccinated or Not? The Vaccination Decision-Making by Healthcare Professionals Working in Haematology: A Qualitative Study.

Haematological patients are more susceptible to infections. Vaccination has always been the most effective primary prevention strategy, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the efficacy of vaccines for some haematological patients is low.

[Nurse decision making in triage cose assignment: a qualitative descriptive study].

Unlabelled: . Nurses' decision making in triage code assignment: a qualitative descriptive study.

Introduction: Given the importance of improving Emergency Department (ED) quality of care and patient satisfaction and safety, analyzing how nurses make decisions in the triage process may help healthcare organizations in developing effective and safe EDs and in supporting healthcare staff.

Why do nursing students leave bachelor program? Findings from a qualitative descriptive study.

Background: Over the past few years, the phenomenon of "nursing student attrition" has been unevenly studied. Investigators often focused on independent predictors as age, family obligations, final grade of high school, demanding physical and mental workload and others. Specifically, just a few studies applied qualitative methods to better comprehend the very needs of first year students enrolled in a bachelor's degree in nursing sciences (BSN), to sustain their learning process and define effective strategies to reduce student drop-out.

Effectiveness of a multi-layer silicone-adhesive polyurethane foam dressing as prevention for sacral pressure ulcers in at-risk in-patients: Randomized controlled trial.

Background: There is need for improvement in effective pressure ulcers preventive strategies.

Objective: To study whether a multi-layer silicone-adhesive polyurethane foam dressing shaped for the sacrum prevents PUs development in addition to standard PU preventive care for at-risk hospitalized patients.

Design: Open-label, parallel group, multi-center randomized controlled trial.