Nursing Interventions Related to the Need for Oxygenation in Severe COVID-19 Disease in Hospitalized Adults: A Retrospective Study.

Unlabelled: COVID-19 affects the respiratory system, reducing the oxygen saturation level, leading to hypoxemia and increasing the metabolic oxygenation need.

Objective: To describe the nursing interventions related to the need for oxygenation in hospitalized adults with severe COVID-19 disease in the Intensive Care Unit.

Method: This was an observational, retrospective and descriptive study in a population of 2205 patients with a convenience sample of = 430 and based on the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA), the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).

Modified Early Warning Score: Clinical Deterioration of Mexican Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 and Chronic Disease.

Unlabelled: The objective was to evaluate the Modified Early Warning Score in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 plus chronic disease.

Methods: Retrospective observational study, 430 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and chronic disease. Instrument, Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS).

Rarecare: A policy perspective on the burden of rare diseases on caregivers in Latin America.

In Latin America (LA), 40-50 million people live with rare diseases (RDs) that require constant monitoring, care, and attention. Caregivers help them with their basic life activities and medication administration, which they would otherwise be unable to perform. Family caregivers complement healthcare and social security systems; however, their unpaid work is often underappreciated and under-protected.

Effectiveness of a case management model for people with multimorbidity: Mixed methods study.

Aims: The aim was to determine the impact of a case management model on indicators of health service utilization, polypharmacy, quality of life and dependency of patients with multimorbidity, and family caregiver overload in a group of patients insured with two insurance companies in the city of Bogotá (Colombia).

Design: This was a mixed methods study, which integrated a quantitative and qualitative component.

Methods: The study was conducted between July 2019 and March 2020.

Palliative care and quality of life in patients with cancer during the terminal phase. A family/patient perspective.

Objective: To explore the meaning of palliative care as perceived by the family caregiver and the patient with advanced cancer.

Method: Information was collected through in-depth interviews and field diaries to conduct this qualitative research study, with an interpretative phenomenological approach. We adopted Heidegger's perspective for the development of hermeneutic interpretation, and therefore followed the stages of intentionality, reduction, and constitution.

Seeking an Adjustment from the Unnatural to the Supernatural: The Experience of Losing a Child from Cancer in Colombia.

Aims: The death of a child with cancer can be devastating for his or her parents. This study sought to understand the way in which the process of parental grief develops after the death of a child with cancer.

Methods: The research used a grounded theory approach, in which 18 participants were enrolled including parents whose child died from cancer 5 months to 5 years before.

Fear, Stress, and Knowledge regarding COVID-19 in Nursing Students and Recent Graduates in Mexico.

Objectives: The study sought to correlate fear, stress, knowledge regarding COVID-19 in Nursing students and recent graduates in Mexico.

Methods: Correlational design, sample comprising 912 nursing students and graduates during the last 18 months from public and private universities of Mexico. To measure the variables, the study applied the instrument Fear of COVID-19 Scale, knowledge subscale of the scale Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19, and the instrument COVID Stress Scale.

Development of student competencies for palliative care.

Aim: Identify the palliative care learning needs of healthcare students and determine the acceptability of an innovative learning strategy for palliative care named competencia para cuidar en el hogar-paliar (CUIDAR-PALIAR) aimed to increase students' competencies.

Methods: A single-group mixed methods design was used. A questionnaire was designed and semi-structured interviews were used to determine the palliative care competencies of undergraduate students; 90 students participated in the strategy.

Effectiveness of a case management model for the comprehensive provision of health services to multi-pathological people.

Aim: To determine the effectiveness of a case management model for approaching multi-pathological people in a health promoting entity of the contributory healthcare scheme in Bogotá, Colombia between 2018 - .

Design: Mixed methods research.

Method: The study contemplates two components: a quantitative component using a quasi-experimental analytical design before and after longitudinal intervention to determine the effectiveness of the case management model and a qualitative descriptive design to understand the experience of the participants about the model.

Validity and Reliability of the Spanish Version of the Technological Competencyas Caring in Nursing Instrument.

Objectives: This work aimed to evaluate validity and reliability to measure the technological competency of Nursing in Colombia of the Spanish version of the Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Instrument (TCCNI).

Methods: This was a test validation study, which evaluated linguistic, facial, content, and construct validity, besides, the instrument's reliability.

Results: The instrument reported face validity with Lawshe's index: clarity 0.

[Charging concept theoretical models disease chronic: a systematic review].

Objective: To describe the approach of cost of illness within the theoretical models of chronic non communicable disease (NCD).

Methodology: A systematic literature review was carried by defining observational parameters guided by the key words "theoretical, models" , "chronic disease" and "cost of illness" in 14 databases as Scielo, Medline, Science direct, Infotrac Health Reference Center Academic, including indexed publications of quantitative, qualitative, analysis and review articles, their publication language with an open time definition.

Results: 20 registered publications were found ranging from 2005 to 2012.

[Social support through using ICT for family caregivers regarding people suffering chronic disease].

Objective: The study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of social support using information and communication technology (ICT) for family caregivers regarding people suffering chronic disease.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive exploratory study involving 144 family caregivers for people suffering from chronic disease was carried out in Bogota during 2008 and 2009. It was carried out in three phases: planning and designing ICT strategies (including a pilot trial and selecting the target population), implementing the ICTs in support of the target population and data analysis regarding implementing the ICTs, with a description of the indicators of structure and process for ICT use and results of ICT use in providing social support.