A Scoping Review of Strategies Used to Implement the Surgical Safety Checklist.

In 2007, the World Health Organization initiated the Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) as part of an initiative to improve patient outcomes. After publication of the SSC, perioperative nurses identified challenges with implementing it and questioned its effectiveness. We desired to summarize the state of the science on the effectiveness of strategies that perioperative personnel have used to implement and assess the SSC; therefore, we conducted a scoping review.

Characteristics and Circumstances of Falls in the Community-Dwelling Older Adult Population.

The study aimed to describe the characteristics and circumstances of falls in the community-dwelling older adult population. This was a cross-sectional observational and descriptive study involving primary health care centers in Lleida and Castellón de la Plana, Spain. Randomized sampling was used to include 966 individuals aged 75 years or older residing in single-family homes and in possession of a health care card.

Effectiveness of an Evidence-Based Practice educational intervention with second-year nursing students.

Objectives: to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on the knowledge, skills and attitudes of evidence-based practice among second-year nursing students.

Method: a quasi-experimental before-and-after study. The study population consisted of 120 students enrolled in the Nursing Care in Healthcare Processes course.

Nutritional status and factors associated with non-institutionalized people over 75 years of age.

Objective: to determine the factors related to the risk of malnutrition in a non-institutionalized population over 75 years of age.

Method: a cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire in a sample of 326 individuals over 75 years of age in Castellón (Spain), during 2015, and selected through intentional sampling.

Results: Malnutrition prevalence was 2.

Assessing the adequacy of workload measurement tools using a quality-based methodology.

Objective:: determine which tool (NEMS and NAS) is most suitable for use in intensive care units using a quality-based methodology.

Method:: after identifying the opportunity for improvement "Inadequacy of the NEMS for determining nursing workload in the intensive care unit (ICU)", we assessed the NEMS and the NAS, as a proposed improvement to the NEMS, using quality improvement cycles methodology based on the following criteria: measurement of daily nursing workload on a daily and shift basis; the tool encompasses all nursing activities undertaken in the ICU; and workload assessed per patient and unit.

Results:: there was no significant difference in level of compliance for the NEMS (67%).

Evaluation of the quality of the teaching-learning process in undergraduate courses in Nursing.

Objective: to identify aspects of improvement of the quality of the teaching-learning process through the analysis of tools that evaluated the acquisition of skills by undergraduate students of Nursing.

Method: prospective longitudinal study conducted in a population of 60 secondyear Nursing students based on registration data, from which quality indicators that evaluate the acquisition of skills were obtained, with descriptive and inferential analysis.

Results: nine items were identified and nine learning activities included in the assessment tools that did not reach the established quality indicators (p<0.

Level of involvement of clinical nurses in the evaluation of competence of nursing students.

Objective: To determine the level of involvement of clinical nurses accredited by the Universitat Jaume I (Spain) as mentors of practice (Reference Nurses) in the evaluation of competence of nursing students. METHODOLGY: Cross-sectional study, in which the "Clinical Practice Assessment Manual'' (CPAM) reported by reference 41 nurses (n=55) were analyzed. Four quality criteria for completion were established: with information at least 80% of the required data, the presence of the signature and final grade in the right place.

[Intrepid: Second nursing cycle. First step, first desire in European Spain].

When we started to write this article for ROL the first question which confronted us was first step? Why? The beginning of second cycle studies in 1998 did not correspond to any European desire, but rather consolidated a real desire which Spanish Nursing had: attain the highest possible academic title through growth inside the nursing discipline itself, having as an objective to place nursing in equal conditions as the majority of titles in the Spanish university system. This meant it was necessary to carry out research and investigation inside one's own scientific field, develop future professionals, administrate under equal conditions, and specifically consolidate a way deserving of one who bears responsibility over health care.