Prevalence of use of physical restraints in pediatric intensive care units and correlated variables: A Spanish multicenter study.

Objective: To calculate the prevalence of physical restraint (PR) use in Spanish PICUs and (2) to analyze the correlation between the prevalence of PR use and the sociodemographic, clinical variables of the patients and the PICU structural and organizational variables.

Methods: We conducted a multicenter prevalence study from January 2022 to January 2023 in Spanish PICUs. The method of data collection was by direct observation, review of the patient's medical history, and asking the professionals involved in the patient's care.

Critical thinking level in nursing degree students according to sociodemographic and academic variables: A correlational study.

Aims: To determine the level of critical thinking of undergraduate nursing students during their clinical practice, as well as to identify the relationship between sociodemographic and academic variables.

Background: Nursing degree programs should prioritize the development of critical thinking skills in their curriculum and regularly assess students to ensure the acquisition of core competencies.

Design: Multicenter, descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational, descriptive study.

Intention to use physical restraint in paediatric intensive care units and correlated variables: A multicentre and cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To determine the intention to use physical restraint (PR) and the relationship with sociodemographic and professional variables of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) nurses.

Research Methodology/design And Setting: A multicentre and correlational study was carried out from October 2021 to December 2023 in five paediatric intensive care units from five maternal and child hospitals in Spain. The Paediatric Physical Restraint-Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire was provided.

Adaptation and validation of the Physical Restraint-Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire to the paediatric context.

Background: Physical restraint is applied in pediatric intensive care units to carry out certain painful procedures and to ensure the maintenance and continuity of life support devices. There is a need to analyse the factors that influence the behaviour or intention to use physical restraint.

Aim: To create and test psychometrically a paediatric version of the Physical Restraint-Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire to assess paediatric critical care nurses' intention to use physical restraint.

Nurses' views on the presence of family members during invasive procedures in hospitalised children: A questionnaire survey.

Aims And Objectives: (I) To identify the opinion and practices of nursing professionals regarding the presence of family members during invasive procedures in hospitalised children; (II) to determine the knowledge of nursing professionals about the patient-and family-centred care model.

Background: Family presence in invasive procedures benefits the patient and their relatives, but varied attitudes exist among healthcare personnel, with some being favourable and others unfavourable toward family presence.

Design: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study.

Critical thinking among institutional academic advisors and sociodemographic, professional and academic variables: A multicenter correlation study.

Background: In nursing education, essential skills include Critical Thinking (CT). There is scant evidence on how nurse educators could promote CT in students in a clinical context.

Objective: To analyse the level of CT and correlated variables in healthcare nurses overseeing the clinicals of nursing undergraduates.

Expectations of patients awaiting lung transplantation: A qualitative study.

Aim: The main aim of the present study is to examine the expectations and feelings of people awaiting lung transplantation.

Background: The assessment of the benefits of lung transplant should consider, among other things, the subjective perceptions of patients about the procedure, especially in relation to the context and to their values, goals and expectations. This is an issue that has not been studied in depth, especially in Spain.

Efficacy of Presurgical Interventions to Promote Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of presurgical interventions for promoting smoking cessation in terms of achieving smoking abstinence and reducing surgical complication rates. A systematic review of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) published from March 2009 to April 2021 was performed following the PRISMA guidelines. References were found in MEDLINE (via PubMed), Web of Science (WOS), and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL).

The nursing critical thinking in clinical practice questionnaire for nursing students: A psychometric evaluation study.

Aim: To adapt and validate the N-CT-4 Practice for use with Spanish nursing students.

Background: Promoting critical thinking is one of the primary objectives of nursing education programs all over the world. Using reliable and valid instruments to measure critical thinking is essential.

Autonomy and isolation experienced by patients and primary caregivers during COVID-19 hospitalization in Barcelona (Spain).

This study aims to describe patients' and family caregivers' hospitalization experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using qualitative exploratory descriptive methods, 13 patients admitted to the largest hospital in Barcelona (Spain) due to COVID-19 were interviewed by telephone once discharged, as were eight primary caregivers. Data were analyzed using the content analysis method proposed by Krippendorff.

'My biggest fear is that people will forget about him': Mothers' emotional transitions after terminating their pregnancy for medical reasons.

Aims And Objectives: To explore women's emotional responses throughout the process of terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons.

Background: Making the choice to terminate a desired pregnancy for medical reasons has a negative impact on women's health, as it is a distressing process that involves making hard decisions and readjusting one's expectations of an idealised pregnancy.

Methods: A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted following the COREQ checklist.

Postsurgical pain assessment in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A scoping review.

Aim: To investigate factors that influence the assessment of postoperative pain in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) and the tools available to determine pain intensity.

Method: The search was performed in January 2022 using six databases. Articles focused on paediatric patients with CP; we included instruments for postsurgical pain assessment in this population published in the last 11 years.

Experiences and needs of patients undergoing clinical isolation. Phenomenological-hermeneutic study.

Objective: To know the experience lived by people subjected to hospital isolation, as well as to recognize the most significant needs expressed during this process.

Method: Qualitative study from a phenomenological-hermeneutical approach. The study participants were patients subjected to hospital isolation during their admission to the trauma ward of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital.

Adaptation and validation of the Ethical Conflict Nursing Questionnaire-Critical Care Version to Italian language.

Background and aim of the work Ethical conflict in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) can lead to poor quality health care and attention. Knowing the level of exposure to ethical conflict in health professionals allows to design strategies for improve the ethical environments and making decisions process. To study ethical conflict in health professionals it is necessary to have valid and reliable instruments that can be applied to different health and cultural contexts.

Critical thinking among clinical nurses and related factors: A survey study in public hospitals.

Aims And Objectives: The study investigated clinical nurses' critical thinking levels in public hospitals and related factors.

Background: Since health care environments have become more complex, the critical thinking skills of clinical nurses are more important in daily problem-solving and decision-making processes. However, little research was conducted on this topic among clinical nurses.

The emotional responses of women when terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons: A scoping review.

Background: In most countries of the world the only basis for considering a termination of pregnancy is for medical reasons. Depending on the circumstances and determinants of each case, the emotional responses to this event vary greatly. The aim of this study is to map the emotional responses of women when their pregnancy is terminated for medical reasons.

Very early mobilization in the stroke unit: Functionality, quality of life and disability at 90 days and 1 year post-stroke.

Background: The evidence of early mobilization after stroke is conflicting, and the recovery period is an important concern.

Objective: To analyse the functionality, quality of life and disability at 90 days and 1 year post-stroke of patients who received a Very Early Mobilization Protocol.

Methods: Prospective cohort study in a tertiary stroke unit.

Cultural adaptation and validation of an instrument about nursing critical thinking skills.

Objectives: to validate the Nursing Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire regarding cultural aspects and metric properties.

Methods: a methodological research carried out through cross-cultural adaptation, face and content validity, dimensional construct and known groups validity, test-retest reliability and internal consistency. 511 nurses from four hospitals participated in the study, of which 54 participated in retest.

Ethical conflict during COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Spanish and Italian intensive care units.

Aim: To identify factors underlying ethical conflict occurring during the current COVID-19 pandemic in the critical care setting.

Background: During the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, Spanish and Italian intensive care units were overwhelmed by the demand for admissions. This fact revealed a crucial problem of shortage of health resources and rendered that decision-making was highly complex.

Risk of acute deterioration and care complexity individual factors associated with health outcomes in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a multicentre cohort study.

Background: Evidence about the impact of systematic nursing surveillance on risk of acute deterioration of patients with COVID-19 and the effects of care complexity factors on inpatient outcomes is scarce. The aim of this study was to determine the association between acute deterioration risk, care complexity factors and unfavourable outcomes in hospitalised patients with COVID-19.

Methods: A multicentre cohort study was conducted from 1 to 31 March 2020 at seven hospitals in Catalonia.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the activity of advanced-practice nurses on a reference unit for inflammatory bowel disease.

Objective: To report the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the activity of nurses working on an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) unit and to identify reasons for telehealth care and its relationship to certain characteristics.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had led to an increase in demand for remote care in patients with inflammatory bowel disease who require monitoring and frequent access to health services.

Design - Methods: A retrospective study of all activity (in person and by phone call or email) done on the unit during the acute phase of the pandemic at a reference hospital in Spain.

Critical thinking in nursing clinical practice, education and research: From attitudes to virtue.

Critical thinking is a complex, dynamic process formed by attitudes and strategic skills, with the aim of achieving a specific goal or objective. The attitudes, including the critical thinking attitudes, constitute an important part of the idea of good care, of the good professional. It could be said that they become a virtue of the nursing profession.

Acuity, nurse staffing and workforce, missed care and patient outcomes: A cluster-unit-level descriptive comparison.

Aim: To compare the patient acuity, nurse staffing and workforce, missed nursing care and patient outcomes among hospital unit-clusters.

Background: Relationships among acuity, nurse staffing and workforce, missed nursing care and patient outcomes are not completely understood.

Method: Descriptive design with data from four unit-clusters: medical, surgical, combined and step-down units.

Clinical nurses's critical thinking level according to sociodemographic and professional variables (Phase II): A correlational study.

Critical thinking ability is one of the basic competencies of clinical nurse and is widely accepted as being associated with the provision of quality care, however, the few evidence-based data related to the relationship between level of critical thinking ability and nurses' sociodemographic and professional characteristics. The aim of this study was to identify the level of critical thinking among nurses in clinical practice according to sociodemographic and professional variables. Descriptive cross-sectional and correlational study was carried out in a sample of 339 nurses from medical, surgical and critical care units at a tertiary care hospital.

Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary educational intervention in patients with hip fracture: SWEET HOME study.

Background And Objective: Hip fracture is a common injury among elderly patients. The main goal of our study was to assess the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary educational intervention aimed at hip fracture patients to promote home discharges and reduce in-hospital complications.

Material And Method: A quasi-experimental study was performed by taking repeated measurements at hospital admission, at hospital discharge, and at both 30days and one year of discharge.