Attitudes of polish nurses towards representatives of certain religions.

Background: The verification of attitudes of nurses towards people of different religions is essential when it comes to anticipating opportunities for cooperation in the field of provision of healthcare. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the attitudes of Polish nurses, on the example of nurses living in the Lesser Poland region (southern Poland) towards representatives of certain religions.

Methods: The study was cross-sectional and was carried out using both the diagnostic survey and method of estimation.

Cultural Competence and Cultural Intelligence of Healthcare Professionals Providing Emergency Medical Services.

Background: There are more and more foreigners in Poland who become clients of the Polish healthcare system. They use, among others, emergency medical services provided by healthcare professionals: doctors, nurses, and paramedics. Skillful care for culturally different patients requires cultural competencies and cultural intelligence to ensure good quality of care and cultural safety.

Psycho-social components determining the strategies of coping with stress in undergraduate Polish nursing students.

Background: In order for the nursing students to fully benefit from the clinical experience, it is necessary for them to be able to handle education-related stress. It is important to establish the importance of personal resources and social determinants, that influence coping strategies in stressful situations.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted among 307 nursing students.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cultural Education Training: Cultural Competence and Cultural Intelligence Development among Nursing Students.

Background: Since 2012, education standards in medical faculties in Poland have allowed medical universities to introduce content related to multiculturalism. On the one hand, this creates a necessity to introduce new strategies, forms, and techniques of education aimed at the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in terms of multiculturalism. On the other hand, there is a need to evaluate their effects.

Comparison of Lifestyle of Catholics and Seventh-Day Adventists and the Relationship with Homocysteine as Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Diseases, a Cross-Sectional Study in Polish Males and Females.

Background: A review of epidemiological data demonstrates relationships between defined health behaviours linked with religious affiliation and a reduced risk of developing and dying from Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). The aim of the study was to compare the lifestyle of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA) and Catholics (CA), to determine the relationship between the lifestyle of SDA, CA and the level of serum homocysteine as a risk factor for CVD.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 252 SDA and CA.

Interleukin-6 and Melatonin as Predictors of Cognitive, Emotional and Functional Ageing of Older People.

Background: The ageing process causes a number of changes in the human immune and endocrine systems. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between cognitive, emotional and functional skills as well lifestyle, versus selected biochemical indicators of the ageing process.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in a group of 121 people aged 60-90 residing in the Lesser Poland voivodship.

Attitudes of Polish Nurses Toward Selected National Groups.

Opening up to global migration processes has contributed to increasing the cultural diversity of Polish society. The diagnosis of nurses' attitudes toward cultural differences is important in the assessment of training needs and in providing professional care. Cross-sectional studies, was carried out in 2018 among 1,271 nurses.

The impact of a sense of self-efficacy on the level of stress and the ways of coping with difficult situations in Polish nursing students.

Introduction: During their first practical classes at a clinical ward nursing students face a new environment; they take on new roles which is associated with stress and a need to handle it.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a sense of self-efficacy on the level of stress and the ways of coping by Polish nursing students during the first practical classes at a clinical ward.

Material And Methods: The study included 394 undergraduate subjects studying nursing at two universities in Southern Poland.

The influence of lung volume reduction with intrabronchial valves on the quality of life of patients with heterogeneous emphysema - a prospective study.

Introduction: A heterogeneous emphysema is one of the most severe forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In some cases, besides the standard pharmacotherapy, a new treatment option of emphysema can be used - bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) with the use of intrabronchial valves.

Objectives: To examine the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with severe emphysema after intrabronchial valve (IBV) implantation for the treatment of one lung.

A consistent course of events or a series of coincidences: nursing in Poland from the 19(th) to the 21(st) century.

The development of nursing began in Poland much later than it did elsewhere, for instance in the United Kingdom, the United States, or Germany, and it came up against difficult conditions. After a brief twenty-year period of development between 1918 and 1939, it almost stalled during the war (1939-45), only to be followed by nearly twenty years of chaos. Nursing started to come out of this difficult period at the beginning of the 1960s.