Results of Nurse Case Management in Primary Heath Care: Bibliographic Review.

Background: The new characteristics of today's population, together with the presence of chronic diseases in the elderly, require a new approach to care, promoting coordination between different levels of care. In this sense, we find the figure of the nurse case manager (NCM) in primary health care mainly responsible for ensuring continuity of care in complex patients with chronic diseases.

Objective: to describe the role of the NCM in care management, determining its effectiveness in addressing chronic disease (health outcomes and quality of life) and its efficiency in the health system.

Impact of Nurses' Intervention in the Prevention of Falls in Hospitalized Patients.

Background: Clinical safety is a crucial component of healthcare quality, focused on identifying and avoiding the risks to which patients are exposed. Among the adverse events that occur in a hospital environment, falls have a large impact (1.9-10% of annual income in acute care hospitals); they can cause pain, damage, costs, and mistrust in the health system.

Validation of a questionnaire designed to measure nursing student satisfaction with practical training.

Objective: to validate an instrument designed to assess practical training and measure nursing student satisfaction with clinical practice modules.

Method: cross-sectional study (academic year 2014-2015). Validation of the self-administered, anonymous, 17-item Nursing Student Satisfaction with Practical Training Questionnaire, developed by consensus by eight practical training experts in three nominal group sessions.

[Population impact of nurses in care interventions chronicity in Spain. Systematic review].

Background: Epidemiological projections for the coming decades suggest that most chronic diseases will increase its prevalence. Different models of care have been developed to meet the challenge of chronicity; all implemented initiatives point to primary health care and especially the community nurse as the guarantors of chronic patient care, family and community. However, health policies do not endorse facts.

Essential elements of professional nursing environments in Primary Care and their influence on the quality of care.

Objectives: Nursing work environments are key determinants of care quality. Our study aimed to evaluate the characteristics of nursing environments in primary care settings in the Canary Islands, and identify crucial components of such environments to improve quality.

Method: We conducted a cross-sectional study in primary care organisations using the Practice Environment Scale - Nursing Work Index tool.

Evaluation of the effect of an intervention on the nutritional status of hospitalized patients.

Background And Objectives: To compare the nutritional status of a population of hospitalized patients, divided into 2 different groups, both at admission and hospital discharge, and to assess the influence of nutritional alteration during the hospital stay.

Material And Methods: Quasi-experimental study comprising 2 groups of patients (N=581); an intervention group (n=303), in which nurses received specific training on managing care methodology, and a control group (n=278), in which nurses continued their usual dynamics. Each group was made up of 2 care units with patients from both surgical and medical specialties.