Personal narratives of nurses who care for patients at the end of life.

Background: Little attention has been paid to the ways in which nurses personally experience, understand and assign meaning to providing palliative care.

Aim: A qualitative study of four nurses working with patients in the terminal phase in a hospital in Mexico was conducted to understand their lived professional experiences and relationships with death.

Methods: Four interviews were analysed using the Greimasian actantial-semiotic model.

Musculoskeletal Problems in Pianists and Their Influence on Professional Activity.

Background: Professional musical performance requires static postures and repetitive movements that may cause musculoskeletal problems in performers. Elite pianists are especially at risk for these disorders, which may cause discomfort but also affect their work. The objective of this study was to describe the most frequent musculoskeletal problems observed in pianists, and to explore the influence of these disorders on their professional activities from the perspective of the pianists themselves.

Nurses' experiences working with nursing students in a hospital: a phenomenological enquiry.

Objective: this paper explores the experiences of registered nurses working with Spanish nursing students within the hospital.

Methods: a qualitative phenomenological approach was followed. Purposeful sampling was employed.

Interpersonal relations and nurses' job satisfaction through knowledge and usage of relational skills.

Background/rationale: Many interpersonal labor disputes stem from the lack of communication skills and the relational problems in the interactions between health professionals.

Aims/methods: A qualitative study was conducted in a Spanish hospital in order to get to know how the communicative interaction between hospital nurses is like in relation to the nurses' interpersonal interaction and communication skills developed in their working relationships. Twenty-one hospital nurses between 29 and 55 years old, working in different wards, were interviewed.

Supplemental nursing staff´s experiences at a Spanish hospital: Qualitative phenomenology research.

The objective of this study was to describe the Supplemental Nursing Staff´s experiences at different hospital units. A qualitative phenomenological approach was conducted; a purposeful and theoretical sampling was implemented with supplemental nursing staff at Santa Barbara Hospital of Soria (Spain), to gain a more in-depth understanding of the Supplemental Nursing Staff ´s experience. Data were collected by in-depth interviews and through a field notebook.

Immigration experience of Latin American working women in Alicante, Spain: an ethnographic study.

Objective: To describe the experience of Latin American working women regarding immigration, taking into account the expectations and conditions in which this process takes place.

Method: Ethnographic qualitative study. Data collection was performed by means of semi-structured interviews with 24 Latin American immigrant women in Spain.

The experience of hospitalized children regarding their interactions with nursing professionals.

The aim of this study is to describe the experience of children in their interactions with nursing professionals while in hospital. It is a qualitative study supported by the critical incident technique. Data was collected through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with thirty hospitalized children and teenagers between 8 and 14 years old.

[Role-playing in the teaching-learning process of the nursing degree. Assessment of graduate (profesionals)].

Objectives: To assess role-playing as a methodology in the teaching-learning process for the Nursing Degree. To identify the attitude of alumni (professionals) towards role-playing after entering the job market.

Introduction: One of the worst fears of students is facing real situations that they will have to face soon, when they become professionals.

[Teaching in Europe].

The European Area for Higher Education is the venue where, over a medium time frame, important changes in the Spanish university system shall be carried out in order to achieve the necessary convergence with the rest of the European Union countries. The step from an information society to a knowledge-based society will require a change in the pedagogical process and the curricula in all university disciplines and their subsequent adaptation to the new plans formulated by the European Area for Higher Education. Therefore, nursing faces a new challenge which will allow it to develop its full academic potential under conditions equal to those of all other academic disciplines.