Predictors of cultural competence among healthcare professional in maternity department: A systematic review.

Background: In recent years, the number of foreign women seeking perinatal care from health services has increased. These women come from diverse cultural and social backgrounds, highlighting the importance of properly training healthcare professionals to respond effectively to their needs. Cultural Competence refers to the set of skills, knowledge, and awareness that providers must possess to deliver care to patients from different cultures.

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.

Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Surgery Wards of a Large Teaching Hospital in Southern Italy.

Objectives: Surgical infections represent an increasingly important problem for the National Health System. In this study we retrospectively evaluated the bacterial epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of the microorganisms concerned as well as the utilization of antibiotics in the General and Emergency Surgery wards of a large teaching hospital in southern Italy in the period 2011-2013.

Methods: Data concerning non-duplicate bacterial isolates and antimicrobial susceptibility were retrieved from the Vitek 2 database.

Epidemiology and antibiotic resistance in a large Italian teaching hospital.

We focused our attention on susceptibility profile of Acinetobacter spp., Pseudomonas spp., and Klebsiella spp.

[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.

Lower gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to a rectal leiomyoma.

The occurrence of leiomyoma of the rectum is uncommon. Most of these lesions are clinically silent and are found incidentally during laparotomy or endoscopic procedures for unrelated conditions. Symptomatic leiomyomas of the rectum are encountered less frequently, with only sporadic reports in the literature.

[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.

Endoscopic approach to malignant strictures at the hepatic hilum.

Hilar tumors have proven to be a challenge to treat and manage because of their poor sensitivity to conventional therapies and our inability to prevent or to detect early tumor formation. Endoscopic stent drainage has been proposed as an alternative to biliary-enteric bypass surgery and percutaneous drainage to palliate malignant biliary obstruction. Prosthetic palliation of patients with malignant hilar stenoses poses particular difficulties, especially in advanced lesions (type II lesions or higher).

Contrast-free endoscopic stent insertion in malignant biliary obstruction.

Aim: To present a case series of MRCP-guided endoscopic biliary stent placement, performed entirely without contrast injection.

Methods: Contrast-free endoscopic biliary drainage was attempted in 20 patients with malignant obstruction, unsuitable for resection on the basis of tumor extent or medical illness. MRCP images were used to confirm the diagnosis of tumor, to exclude other biliary diseases and to demonstrate the stenoses as well as dilation of proximal liver segments.

Metastatic tumors to the stomach: clinical and endoscopic features.

Aim: To evaluate the clinical and endoscopic patterns in a large series of patients with metastatic tumors in the stomach.

Methods: A total of 64 patients with gastric metastases from solid malignant tumors were retrospectively examined between 1990 and 2005. The clinicopathological findings were reviewed along with tumor characteristics such as endoscopic pattern, location, size and origin of the primary sites.

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.