Background: To meet the population's needs, community care should be customized and continuous, adequately equipped, and monitored.
Introduction: Considering their fragmented and heterogeneous nature, a summary of community healthcare services described in European literature is needed. The aim of this study was to summarize their organizational models, outcomes, nursing contribution to care, and nursing-related determinants of outcomes.
Aim: To explore the attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 vaccines.
Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.
Methods: Five focus groups were conducted between October and November 2021, with a total of 30 nurses from different contexts in Northern Italy.
Historical paper documents are susceptible to complex degradation processes, including biodeterioration, which can progressively compromise their aesthetic and structural integrity. This study analyses seventeenth century handwritten historical letters stored at the Correr Museum Library in Venice, Italy, exhibiting pronounced signs of biodeterioration. The techniques used encompassed traditional colony isolation on agar plates and proteomics analyses, employing nanoscale liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry (nano-LC-MS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To report a reflection on the role, challenges and opportunities for nurses with advanced education in research outside the academic field.
Design: A discursive paper.
Data Sources: We reported the case of an Italian paediatric research hospital where PhD-prepared nurses started to apply their knowledge and competencies in different fields, both in clinical and organizational settings.