Augmented reality in intensive care nursing education: A scoping review.

Objectives: This scoping review aimed to identify existing literature on the application of augmented reality (AR) in the intensive care unit (ICU) and analyse its current state of play regarding hands-on skills.

Background: Active learner engagement can greatly enrich educational outcomes. With the rise of immersive and interactive technologies, AR is progressively integrated into nursing education to enhance this aspect.

The Impact of Caregiver Affiliate Stigma on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Caregivers of Individuals with Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Scoping Review.

Caregiver affiliate stigma concerning neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs) profoundly affects caregivers' well-being, though its full impact remains to be fully elucidated. This scoping review aims to consolidate the current knowledge on caregiver affiliate stigma related to NDDs, explore its connection to caregiver psychosocial well-being, and pinpoint the gaps in the existing research. .

Exploring the Horizon: Anti-Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer with Aberrant Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Expression-A Scoping Review.

Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal disease, often diagnosed at advanced stages, with a 5-year overall survival rate of around 10%. Current treatments have limited effectiveness, underscoring the need for new therapeutic options. This scoping review aims to identify and summarize preclinical and clinical studies on FGFR (Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor) inhibitors, including tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and FGFR-specific inhibitors, in pancreatic cancer with FGFR alterations.

AI and Big Data: Current and Future Nursing Practitioners' Views on Future of Healthcare Education Provision.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined as "the capacity of a computer, robot, programmed device, or software application to perform operations and tasks analogous to learning and decision making in humans, such as speech recognition or question answering. Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) represent an example of this promising technology as it is designed to communicate and interact with people similarly to a human being". The introduction of any form of AI based technologies could be beneficial in nursing education and healthcare provision.

Evaluating a nurse-led narrative interview intervention with cancer patients with a first diagnosis: A feasibility study.

Narrative Medicine and Nursing are clinical-supporting intervention methodologies that aim to enhance professionals' communication skills and place patients at the heart of their therapeutic path. A narrative interview (NI) is a communication tool between practitioner and patient. The role of NI is debated extensively in the literature, but no studies focus on its use by nurses responsible for first-diagnosed cancer patients.

Assessing satisfaction in simulation among nursing students: psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Simulation Experience - Italian Version scale.

Background: The Satisfaction with Simulation Experience scale is a 5-point Likert scale that measures students' satisfaction in medium and high-fidelity simulation scenarios. This study aims at investigating the psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Simulation Experience - Italian Version scale.

Methods: A multi-centre cross-sectional study was conducted.

Measuring the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 by means of the "international student well-being study questionnaire": Evidence on Italian university students.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic appeared as an unpredictable disruption of daily activities. This situation produced a unique mental health impact for the general population, youth, and vulnerable groups. A documented consequence has been alcohol abuse and impaired mental health.

The use of adhesive elastic tape for hand oedema control in patients with a wrist fracture treated in a cast: A pilot study.

Background: The adhesive elastic tape use is indicated for controlling oedema, although currently there is not the definitive evidence regarding its effectiveness. Wrist fractures are a frequent occurrence, often leading to oedema development in patients treated with forearm casts. This pilot study aims to investigate the effects of elastic tape in controlling hand oedema among patients with forearm casts for wrist fractures and the feasibility of a future randomized controlled trial.

Strategies implemented by informal caregivers to facilitate self-care in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a scoping review protocol.

Background And Aim: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation. COPD is a significant social and economic burden, and hospital admissions contribute to increased costs. Informal caregivers play a crucial role in supporting COPD patients in their self-care efforts.

Uncovering doctors' perceived barriers and facilitators of antibiotic prescribing behaviours: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework.

Background And Aim Of The Work: Uncovering the barriers and facilitators of antibiotic prescribing is crucial in order to develop effective strategies for promoting responsible and evidence-based antibiotic use, thereby combating antibiotic resistance and enhancing patient care. This qualitative study, informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) - specifically designed to understand and analyze the factors that influence human behavior, with a focus on identifying barriers and facilitators to behavior change, was aimed to explore the determinants (barriers and facilitators) of antibiotic prescribing behaviors from the perspective of doctors.

Research Design And Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with healthcare professionals, and data analysis followed a theory-driven approach guided by the TDF.

Bowel dysfunctions after acquired brain injury: a scoping review.

Unlabelled: Bowel dysfunction is a common consequence of neurological diseases and has a major impact on the dignity and quality of life of patients. Evidence on neurogenic bowel is focused on spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis; few studies have focused on patients with acquired brain injury (ABI). Neurogenic bowel dysfunction is related to a lifelong condition derived from central neurological disease, which further increases disability and social deprivation.

Experiences of newly hired nurses during the Covid-19 emergency: descriptive qualitative research.

Background And Aim Of The Work: The Covid-19 pandemic led to an increased demand for healthcare professionals, particularly nurses. The Piacenza Local Health Service, Northern Italy, issued several calls for tenders in order to recruit nurses and the University anticipated graduation sessions, so several new graduates nurses found themselves facing their first work experience in the middle of the pandemic emergency. It is well known that being a first-time employee causes stress, but there are few studies yet investigating the perception of newly employed nurses during the pandemic.

The use of skin traction in the adult patients with proximal femur fracture. What are the effects, advantages and disadvantages? A scoping review.

Background: Hip surgery is normally the chosen therapy for proximal femur fractures. Surgery within 24-48 h after hip fracture is recommended, but surgery may not always be performed promptly. Consequently, skin-traction is applied to reduce complications.

Role and challenges to digital technologies in community health promotion programs in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multiple embedded case study protocol.

Background And Aim: Due to the COVID-19 pandemics, The Italian League Against Cancer (LILT), a national federation of local associations promoting cancer prevention, had to face the challenge to find new ways and technologies to promote health in their territories. This study aims to explore how LILT associations led their health promotion interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand which interventions had a greater impact, for which population group, and why.

Methods: In this descriptive multiple embedded case study, each case will focus on the activities of a local LILT association and their collaborators on the perception and experience of the use of digital technology for health promotion and prevention, through interviews, observations, and a study of products and artifacts.

Evaluation of pain in the paediatric patient admitted to sub-intensive care: a scoping review protocol.

Background And Aim: pain is considered as the 5th vital sign thus it's paramount that healthcare professionals are equipped with validated tools for his correct assessment. There are different paediatric pain assessment scales that take into account patients' age. Actually, the "Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability" (FLACC), Wong-Baker and NRS scales are regarded as the gold standard in low intensity clinical areas, while the COMFORT-Behavior (COMFORT-B) and Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) ones are used for high intensity clinical areas where paediatric patients are sedated/intubated.

Re-evaluation of the interprofessional collaboration scale validation between nurses towards other health care professionals occupied in Italian emergency medical services.

Background And Aim: Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) between health professionals is fundamental for the provision of an efficient and effective medical care service. This is especially so in states of emergency, as highlighted by the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This study aimed to obtain further evidence regarding the validity and reliability of the Italian language IPC scale -an instrument for measuring interprofessional collaboration- in a setting that has yet to be investigated at an in-depth level: the emergency departments in Italian hospitals.

Handover methods between local emergency medical services and Accident and Emergency: is there a gold standard? A scoping review.

Background: Pre-hospital emergency medical systems do not appear to work totally coordinated with Accident and Emergency (A&E). Often, patient admission to A&E is marked by scarce attention to the handover between the respective healthcare professionals. This phenomenon is potentially dangerous because it exposes patients to the risk of errors in a context where the patients' critical or progressing conditions must not be worsened by avoidable errors of communication between professionals.

Satisfaction evaluation for ACLS training.

Background And Aim: simulation became gradually pivotal in training of health professionals: indeed, it showed an improvement in practical skill of the trainees compared to theoretical lectures. Among others, ACLS (advance cardiovascular life support) courses are now one of the standard learning practices most spread around the world. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate both the level of satisfaction and the clinical thinking that the trainees perceived during an ACLS course.

Italian validation of the DEMQOL-PROXY: Exploratory Factor Analysis, Convergent and Divergent Validity.

Background And Aim Of The Work: we present in this paper a complete Italian validation version. We show some psychometric properties of the Italian version of the DEMQOL-PROXY: Structural validity (by use Exploratory Factor Analysis), convergent validity and divergent validity in Italian language Method.We enrolled a sample of 182 caregivers of people with mild to moderate Dementia.

From classroom training to e-learning: a journey through the quality of learning life of nurse students in post-graduate education - A longitudinal qualitative study.

Background And Aim: recent studies regarding COVID-19 experiences of nursing students highlighted the effect of the transition from face-to-face to online education, rather than the complexity of the overall quality of educational life. This study aim investigating of how the students perceive the quality of educational life in the forced online training, searching for any shift of meanings concerning the students learning experience, from the first phase of the sudden transition to online and the online stabilization phase.

Methods: a longitudinal qualitative study, carried during two moments of the online teaching activity forced by COVID-19, the first one in May-June 2020 and the second six months later in January -February 2021.

Interprofessional Training and Commitment to Research increasingly useful for the Health Professions.

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Validation of the Italian version of Behavioral Pain Scale in sedated, intubated, and mechanically ventilated pediatric patients.

Background And Aim: Pain assessment in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a demanding challenge. The COMFORT-B scale is recognized as the gold standard in such patients. However, the use of this instrument in PICU setting is disputed.

Randomised controlled prospective study of the use of adhesive elastic tape for the control of hand oedema in patients with a wrist fracture treated in a cast: a study protocol.

Background: Wrist fractures are a common occurrence, affecting patients of all ages. Wrist fracture patients often develop oedema and the presence of a cast increases the risk. The use of adhesive elastic tape is indicated for oedema control, but there is no definitive evidence of its effectiveness.

First Italian validation of the "Satisfaction with simulation experience" scale (SSE) for the evaluation of the learning experience through simulation.

Background And Aim Of The Work: Training in simulation through "mannequins" is increasingly widespread among nursing students. In the Italian context, however, there are no tools that measure the degree of student satisfaction after clinical training through simulation. The aim of the study is to provide a first validation in Italian of the Satisfaction with simulation experience" (SSE) scale, a tool already validated in several languages.