Impact of telemedicine on health outcomes in children with medical complexity: an integrative review.

Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a high priority population with chronic illnesses dependent on the use of health services, on technological systems to support their vital functions and characterized by multiple health needs. One of the main challenges linked to chronic conditions is finding solutions to monitor CMC at home, avoiding re-hospitalization and the onset of complications. Telemedicine enables to remotely follow up patients and families.

Diabetic education in nursing: A Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis.

Aim: This concept analysis aims to clarify the concept of diabetic education in nursing to provide guidance for the further conceptualization and clarification of diabetic education in nursing.

Background: Patient education is a fundamental component of diabetes care. Nurses have taken up a major role in educating people with diabetes to manage their conditions.

The Nurse Led of stroke patient after discharge from hospital. A Systematic Review and GRADE.

Aim: Stroke is the second cause of death worldwide and the third cause of death in industrialized countries. To investigate the effectiveness of the nurse's role the management for people affected by stroke after discharge from hospital to home.

Method: A systematic review was performed.

Meta-Synthesis of the Needs of Women Cared for by Midwives During Childbirth in Hospitals.

Objective: To identify and meta-synthesize results of qualitative studies on the needs of women cared for by midwives during childbirth in hospitals.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Embase, and the Cochrane Library.

Study Selection: We restricted the bibliographic search to articles published in English to July 31, 2020.

[Vaccination, attitudes and perception of parents. Study in the ASL of Salerno].

Objective: Despite the many advances obtained thanks to vaccination, in recent years it has been a marked drop in vaccination coverage. In fact, data show the failure in reaching the 95% of coverage, equal to the safety threshold for almost all vaccinations. This is due to the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy.

[The Adherence's indicators of cancer patients to oral chemotherapy. A sistematic literature review].

Introduction: Adherence has a key role in treating patients as influences the effectiveness of therapeutic treatment for improving overall survival, life expectancy, quality of life and reducing healthcare costs. There are gaps in identifying indicators to be used to evaluate adherence and ways in which these indicators should be adopted. The aim of this paper is to identify adherence's indicators in literature.

The meaning of empowerment within Italian nursing care settings.

Aim: To examine the current state of empowerment of nurses in Italy.

Background: Empowerment is a broad concept that is also relevant to the field of nursing practice. Its comprehension and use are important because empowerment allows nurses to take control of their own practice.

Philosophical and theoretical content of the nursing discipline in academic education: A critical interpretive synthesis.

Background: Nursing as clinical practice, management and research are based on nursing philosophy and theory. Thus, the philosophical and theoretical content is required to be incorporated in academic education in order to enable nurses' skills for reflection, analysis, and thinking about the profession.

Objective: The aim of this review was to describe what is known of the philosophical and theoretical content of the nursing discipline within academic education.

Are community-based nurse-led self-management support interventions effective in chronic patients? Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

The expansion of primary care and community-based service delivery systems is intended to meet emerging needs, reduce the costs of hospital-based ambulatory care and prevent avoidable hospital use by the provision of more appropriate care. Great emphasis has been placed on the role of self-management in the complex process of care of patient with long-term conditions. Several studies have determined that nurses, among the health professionals, are more recommended to promote health and deliver preventive programs within the primary care context.

[Compassionate nursing care: the experience of italian nurses].

Aim: In international nursing literature compassion and compassionate care has acquired a considerable importance and it's considered to be a growing phenomenon. The approach to the application of compassionate care to patients is clearly not well-defined in Italian nursing. The aim of this study is to define what compassionate care is through the analysis of Italian nurses' experiences.

[Structural empowerment and job satisfaction among nurses coordinators: a pilot study].

Introduction: In literature, the structural empowerment and the job satisfaction have been studied in many different work settings but more need to be done in the setting of Head Nurses.

Objective: The goal of the study is to evaluate the structural empowerment level of head nurses and if it impacts on the job satisfaction.

Methods: A cross sectional design study was used.

[Educational curriculum and occupational status of nurses and midwives after second level degree (MNsc) at Catholic University of Rome].

Our society requires health professionals of increasingly competence, able to modulate their skills according to the needs and the requirements of the context. This survey (cross - sectional) has as primary aim to collect information on employment status of individuals who have a Master degree in Nursing and Midwifery, and as secondary objective to describe if and how the post graduation education has affected the quality and the outcomes of nursing work. A questionnaire devised for the purpose has been used.

[Nursing Research Project on Management Training (IN.FOR.MA): evaluation of the competencies acquired during Phase 1].

The aim of the present study is to define the state of the art in nursing management training in Italy and to assess the effectiveness of training in a working context. The first phase of the IN.FOR.

[Quality of life in people with pacemaker].

The aim of this study was to measure Quality of Life (QOL) before a pacemaker (PM) implantation and 1, 6 and 12 months later. Using a descriptive, comparative and correlative design a sample of 157 patients was studied who were divided in four groups: the group A (43 patients) who had to implant the PM; the group B (38 patients) who had the PM implanted 1 month before; the group C (29 patients) who had the PM implanted 6 months before, and the group C (44 patients) who the PM implanted 12 months before. The SF-36 scale was used.

Hope and related variables in Italian cancer patients.

Hope, long considered an essential element for life, has been shown to be important among cancer patients in coping, perceived control over the illness, and psychologic adjustment to the illness. The purpose of this study was (a) to describe the level of hope in Italian cancer patients; (b) to compare the levels of hope during and after hospitalization; (c) to determine whether hope was correlated with quality of life and several symptoms; and (d) to determine whether the variables from the international literature also pertain to Italian cancer patients. A descriptive correlational design using repeated measures was chosen to study 80 Italian cancer patients during hospitalization and then at home.

[Teaching nursing research at bachelor and second level degree: opinions of nursing associate professors and nursing researchers].

Nursing research is a systematic and very important enquiry for improving clients' quality of life and effective and efficient nursing care. National and international literature state that all nurses should have knowledge and responsibilities in research which are different in relation to their educational level. The aim of the present study was to collect opinions of the new professors in nursing about objectives, contents and methods for teaching nursing research at Bachelor and Master Degree.

[The managerial education of nurse coordinator and the educational contract: the experience of the First Level Master in Nursing Management for Coordinational Functions at the Catholic University of Rome].

Changes in the National Health Service (NHS), in nursing laws and education made necessary a first level Master to teach nurses managerial competences for coordinational functions. Nowadays nurse coordinator are important in health organization in order to transform individual knowledges of nurses in effective, efficient and appropriate care practice. The project of the First Level Master in Nursing Management for Coordinational Functions run at the Catholic University of Rome, kept into consideration changes in NHS, nursing laws and education.