The Relationship Between Nursing Work Environment and Breastfeeding Prevalence During Child Hospitalization: A Multicenter Study.

: Breastfeeding during pediatric hospitalization is often challenging, especially in a setting where nursing work environments can affect breastfeeding support. This study examines the relationship between nursing work environments and the prevalence of breastfeeding during child hospitalization, focusing on aspects such as nursing workload, stress levels, and quality of work life (QoWL). : A cross-sectional multicenter study was conducted in Italian pediatric hospitals from October 2023 to January 2024.

Healthcare-associated infections and nursing leadership: A systematic review.

Background: Healthcare-associated infections are strictly related to healthcare practices. A head nurse stimulates and motivates nurses, boosts nurses' job performance and satisfaction, and can influence adverse event development.

Aim: To explore the relationship between healthcare-associated infections and head nurse leadership style.

Pediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in lower and medium complexity care units: A Delphi study.

Background: The effectiveness of pediatric care is made more challenging to analyze by the need for specialist nursing and by the specific characteristics of pediatric patients, as opposed to adult patients, such as ongoing rapid growth and development, and different physical, cognitive, and emotional demands. Previous research has identified "Pediatric Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes" (PNSOs) in intensive care unit settings, though pediatric intensive care beds only represent a very limited percentage of hospital beds. To improve care quality and safety for a larger population of patients, this study aims to identify PNSOs in lower and medium-complexity care units (LMCCUs).

Nursing leadership style and error management culture: a scoping review.

Purpose: This paper aims to assess the influence of nursing leadership style on error management culture (EMC).

Design/methodology/approach: This scoping review was conducted following the integrative review methodology of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase and EBSCO databases were systematically searched to identify studies on nursing leadership, error management and measurement, and error management culture.

Head Nurse Leadership: Facilitators and Barriers to Adherence to Infection Prevention and Control Programs-A Qualitative Study Protocol.

Background: The effective management of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) relies on the implementation of good practice across the entire multidisciplinary team. The organizational context and the role of head nurses influence the team's performance and behavior. Understanding how decision-making processes influence healthcare professionals' behavior in the management of HAIs could help identify alternative interventions for reducing the risk of infection in healthcare organizations.

Nurses' evidence-based knowledge and self-efficacy in venous access device insertion and management: Development and validation of a questionnaire.

Aim: To develop and psychometrically test an instrument to assess nurses' evidence-based knowledge and self-efficacy regarding insertion and management of venous access devices (short peripheral catheter (SPC), long peripheral catheter/midline (LPC) and PICC) and the management of totally implantable central venous catheter (Port) in adult patients.

Design: Multicenter cross-sectional observational study with questionnaire development and psychometric testing (validity and reliability).

Methods: An evidence-based instrument was developed including a 34-item knowledge section and an 81-item self-efficacy section including four device-specific parts.

"SO FAR AWAY" How Doctors Can Contribute to Making Endometriosis Hell on Earth. A Call for Humanistic Medicine and Empathetic Practice for Genuine Person-Centered Care. A Narrative Review.

Unlabelled: "SO FAR AWAY" * How Doctors Can Contribute to Making Endometriosis Hell on Earth [* by Knopfler M. In Dire Straits. Brothers in Arms.

Measuring Nurses' Organizational Well-Being: A Systematic Review of Available Instruments.

This systematic review aimed to identify and compare instruments measuring nurses' organizational well-being, summarise the dimensions measured by these instruments, the statistical analysis performed for validity evidence and identify an instrument that comprehensively investigates nurses' organizational well-being. The JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis and the PRISMA checklist were used as guidelines. The search was conducted on Medline, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and Scopus.

Cardiovascular nurses and organizational well-being: a systematic review.

Aims: This systematic review assesses the organizational well-being of nurses working in cardiovascular settings and identifies environmental variables influencing it.

Methods And Results: The Joanna Briggs Institute's methodology and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines have been followed. The search was conducted, from the database inception up to and including 1 December 2022, on Medline (via PubMed), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health, Cochrane Library, and Scopus.

Work-related stress, job satisfaction, and quality of work life among cardiovascular nurses in Italy: Structural equation modeling.

Aim: To investigate the simultaneous effects of work-related stress and job satisfaction on cardiovascular nurses' quality of work life.

Background: Prior research has investigated nurses' work-related stress, job satisfaction, and quality of work life as separate aspects and not in specific nursing settings, such as cardiovascular wards. Cardiovascular care settings can be particularly stressful for nurses, who are often faced with distress, depression and patients and caregivers' physical and psychological exhaustion.

Specialized Nurse-led Care of Chronic Wounds During Hospitalization and After Discharge: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of specialized nurse-led care of patients with chronic wounds, provided both during hospitalization and postdischarge, on wound healing and readmission rates.

Methods: An unblinded randomized controlled trial was conducted. Participants were patients with chronic wounds, randomly assigned to either the experimental group (cared for by wound care nurses both during hospitalization and postdischarge) or to the control group (cared for according to standard practice).

Effectiveness of transitional care interventions in patients with serious illness and their caregivers: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of transitional care interventions for seriously ill patients and their caregivers.

Introduction: Seriously ill patients and their caregivers may have complex health and social care needs that require services from numerous providers across multiple sectors. Transitional care interventions have been designed to enhance a collaborative approach among providers to facilitate the care transition process.

Towards a new conceptual model for nurses' organizational well-being: An integrative review.

Aim: The aim of this study is to summarize conceptual models of nurses' organizational well-being and identify common variables among them.

Background: To understand how the characteristics of an organizational context affect workers' well-being, numerous conceptual models have been developed. Such models have been conceptualized in various working contexts other than health care and not always considering the particularities of the profession of nursing.

The Wounded Healer: A Phenomenological Study on Hospital Nurses Who Contracted COVID-19.

Since the pandemic began nurses were at the forefront of the crisis, assisting countless COVID-19 patients, facing unpreparedness, social and family isolation, and lack of protective equipment. Of all health professionals, nurses were those most frequently infected. Research on healthcare professionals' experience of the pandemic and how it may have influenced their life and work is sparse.

Nursing leadership in clinical practice, its efficacy and repercussion on nursing-sensitive outcomes: A cross-sectional multicentre protocol study.

Aim: The aim of this study to describe a research protocol for evaluating the relationship between nursing leadership, organisational well-being and nurse and patient outcomes.

Background: The head nurses' leadership style influences the organisational context. When an organisation promotes nurses' well-being, they perform better performances and are more satisfied and engaged with their job.

Effect of a wound healing protocol on patients with stage III and IV pressure ulcers: a preliminary observational study.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of a wound healing protocol for stage III and IV pressure ulcers (PUs), and to determine the predictive power of specific sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on wound healing and infection.

Method: This longitudinal study included participants with stage III and IV PUs who were recruited from 10 acute care settings of an Italian university hospital, and who were managed with a protocol inspired by the TIMECare model. Data were collected between October 2018 and March 2019.

Nurses' Quality of Life Scale: Validation and Psychometric Properties.

The Nursing Quality of Life Scale (NQOLS) is a 28-item self-report measure evaluating the four dimensions of nurses' quality of life, namely, the physical, emotional, working, and social dimensions. The purpose of this study is to assess the psychometric properties, including validity and reliability, of the NQOLS. The study enrolled 1105 nurses who provided direct assistance to patients.

A mixed methods study of an organization's approach to the COVID-19 health care crisis.

Background: Healthcare emergency can increase work-related stress and reduce nurses' job satisfaction and quality of life. Managerial decisions and proactive interventions implemented to react to the emergency ensure the best patient outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to verify whether a proactive organizational approach can limit nurses' work-related stress and help preserve their job satisfaction and quality of life during a health emergency.

An integrated system for Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter tip confirmation in oncology and haematology patients.

Introduction: Although there are many methods to confirm vascular device tip, chest x-ray represents the recommended procedure to verify the correct positioning of a central device, but it exposes patients to x-rays, delays treatment, and permits device length to be checked post-procedure.

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter positioning through an Integrated System (ultrasound-guided and electrocardiogram confirmation).

Methods: A case-control study was conducted on a randomized sample of 165 patients, requiring Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter placement for chemotherapy treatment.

The role of occupational stress in the association between emotional labor and burnout in nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Unlabelled: Aim To test a model to evaluate the influence of emotional labor on burnout and the mediating role of work-related stress reported by nurses.

Background: Nurses are particularly exposed to work-related stress caused by their relationships with their patients. Even though their emotional involvement can cause work-related stress for professionals, nurses recognize this as a fundamental part of the caring relationship, and it has been proved to be therapeutic for patients.

[Integrated Procurement Model: A new approach to Tissue and Organ Procurement].

Introduction: Literature has shown that the process of procurement of organs and tissues is fundamental in determining the number of donations. Starting from these assumptions, an integrated procurement model of organs and tissues has been designed and tested, where nurse specialists in organ donation coordinate the team and the entire process.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Integrated Procurement Models in terms of identifying potential donors and the number of donations.

The relationship between nurse managers' leadership style and patients' perception of the quality of the care provided by nurses: Cross sectional survey.

Background: In healthcare systems, human resources play a strategic role that has a significant impact on the whole caring process. When the wellbeing of professionals is low their performance decreases, counterproductive work behaviours may became more likely, and as a result the quality of care is compromised. Studies have shown that leadership style is particularly relevant in relation to the quality of work environments in healthcare organizations.

Risk factors for a difficult intravenous access: A multicentre study comparing nurses' beliefs to evidence.

Aims And Objectives: To summarise the evidence about patient-related risk factors for difficult intravenous access in adults, and at identifying nurses' beliefs and their consistency with evidence.

Background: Peripheral intravenous cannulation is a common procedure for nurses, but rates of failure at first attempt of peripheral intravenous cannulation range 10%-40%. Nurses' beliefs about difficult intravenous access factors might influence their clinical practice more than current evidence.

Vessel health and preservation: An integrative review.

Aims And Objectives: To describe and synthesise current knowledge on the maintenance and preservation of vessels in patients who need the placement of a vascular access device.

Introduction: To administer drugs, blood or intravenous fluids, nurses or doctors insert a peripheral vascular access device on the arm using the traditional approach. This approach implies that devices are blindly inserted until flow is satisfactory and all possible sites have been exhausted.