Evaluating satisfaction with teaching innovation, its relationship to academic performance and the application of a video-based microlearning.

Aim: To develop and validate a questionnaire to assess satisfaction with teaching innovation, assess the student satisfaction with a video-based microlearning intervention in its video-based modality and to verify its impact on academic performance.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. The study used the COSMIN checklist for studies on measurement instruments.

The Impact of Clinical Training Seminars on Stress and Perception of Clinical Placement Stressors among Spanish Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Two-Phase Mixed-Methods Study.

Stress and stressors related to clinical practice are some of the main reasons for the discomfort reported by nursing students. It is important to identify the causes of stress and seek strategies to reduce the stress levels in nursing students. Clinical training seminars have proven to be a useful tool to reduce stress levels.

Empathy, Burnout, and Attitudes towards Mental Illness among Spanish Mental Health Nurses.

Mental health nurses, together with psychiatrists, are the healthcare professionals who display the highest levels of empathy and the best attitudes towards patients with mental disorders. However, burnout is a common problem among these professionals. The aim of our study is to describe the association between empathy, burnout, and attitudes towards patients with mental disorders among mental health nurses in Spain.

Design of a nursing objective structured clinical examination of a first-year clinical practice program.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to design a content-valid nursing objective structured clinical examination attending a first-year clinical nursing practice program.

Method: The examination was designed following a procedure based on the consensus of experts which was comprised of three phases: selection of the activities in which students should be competent according to the learning outcomes of the course, clinical case design, and integration of the clinical cases designed into the stations of the test.

Results: Of the 44 surveys submitted for the design of the stations, 37 were answered, of which 31 respondents met the inclusion criteria of the panel of experts.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Questionnaire Based on the Nursing Outcomes Classification to Determine the Knowledge of Parents on Breast-Feeding: Research Protocol.

Purpose: To develop and psychometrically evaluate a questionnaire based on the outcome "Knowledge: Breast-feeding" of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) to determine the knowledge of parents on breast-feeding.

Background: The NOC outcome "Knowledge: Breast-feeding" allows for nurses/midwives to assess the efficacy of interventions aimed to improve the knowledge on breast-feeding in parents thought the clinical interview/observation. However, the use of self-administered questionnaires by patients could facilitate its evaluation.

[A short form of the positions on nursing diagnosis scale: development and psychometric testing].

The Positions on Nursing Diagnosis (PND) is a scale that uses the semantic differential technique to measure nurses' attitudes towards the nursing diagnosis concept. The aim of this study was to develop a shortened form of the Spanish version of this scale and evaluate its psychometric properties and efficiency. A double theoretical-empirical approach was used to obtain a short form of the PND, the PND-7-SV, which would be equivalent to the original.

Nursing diagnosis of grieving: content validity in perinatal loss situations.

Purpose: To validate the content of the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis of grieving in situations of perinatal loss.

Methods: Using the Fehring's model, 208 Spanish experts were asked to assess the adequacy of the defining characteristics and other manifestations identified in the literature for cases of perinatal loss.

Findings: The content validity index was 0.

[Profile of women with breast disease wich does self-exploration. Which are the factors associated with this practice?].

Background/aims: In recent decades the fight against breast cancer has focused primarily on the treatment and secondary prevention (early detection mainly). In the case of breast self-examination, althought it has not been prove to reduce mortality, it is important in cases detected by women themselves (it is estimated 90% of total), mainly in the interval cancers.

Objectives: To identify within women with breast cancer, how many do self-examination and identify associated factors.

The Spanish version of the Position on Nursing Diagnosis scale: cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric assessment.

Aim: To report the adaptation into Spanish and psychometric testing of the Position on Nursing Diagnosis scale.

Background: The Position on Nursing Diagnosis is a scale that uses the semantic differential technique to measure nurses' attitudes towards the nursing diagnosis concept.

Design: Methodological design.

Tackling perinatal loss, a participatory action research approach: research protocol.

Aim:   The aim of this study was to promote changes to improve the care provided to parents who have experienced a perinatal loss through participatory action research.

Background:   The birth of a child is a joyful event for most families, however, unfortunately some pregnancies end in loss. Perinatal loss creates a heavy emotional impact not only on parents but also on health professionals, where in most cases there is an evident lack of skills, strategies and resources to cope with these kinds of situations.