Critical thinking among institutional academic advisors and sociodemographic, professional and academic variables: A multicenter correlation study.

Background: In nursing education, essential skills include Critical Thinking (CT). There is scant evidence on how nurse educators could promote CT in students in a clinical context.

Objective: To analyse the level of CT and correlated variables in healthcare nurses overseeing the clinicals of nursing undergraduates.

National validation of the nursing Intensive-Care satisfaction scale: Research protocol.

Aim: Validate the Nursing Intensive-Care Satisfaction Scale in ICUs throughout Spain. Identify the improvement strategies recommended by the patients and professionals.

Design: Quantitative psychometric methodology and a cross-sectional descriptive correlational design.

Satisfaction of intensive care unit patients linked to clinical and organisational factors: A cross-sectional multicentre study.

Background: The satisfaction of critical care patients with the nursing care they receive is a key indicator of the quality of hospital care.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to analyse the level of satisfaction of critical care patients in relation to the nursing care received and to determine the relationship between the level of satisfaction and sociodemographic, clinical, and organisational variables.

Design: This was a prospective, descriptive correlational study.

Association of sex and age and delay predictors on the time of primary angioplasty activation for myocardial infarction patients in an emergency department.

Background: Time between Emergency Department (ED) and ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) activation time is a good indicator of ED quality. STEMI delays are of particular importance in some subgroups, such as women and the elderly.

Objective: To determine the association of sex and age with activation time in STEMI patients admitted to the ED.

Psychometric properties of the oral feeding assessment in premature infants scale.

Professionals that work in neonatal units need to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the premature infant who is in the transition process from feeding through a gastric tube to oral feeding. The main aim of this study was to validate the Oral FEeding Assessment in premaTure INfants (OFEATINg) instrument. A psychometric validity and reliability study was conducted in Neonatal Intensive Care Units of two public, metropolitan, university hospitals.

Psychometric properties of the Nursing Intensive Care Satisfaction Scale: A multicentre cross-sectional study.

Background: Patient satisfaction with nursing care is an indicator of patient satisfaction with the hospital stay in general. The Nursing Intensive Care Satisfaction Scale is the only scale about patient satisfaction with nursing care received in an intensive care unit that incorporates the critically ill patient's perspective into its design and validation. We validated the scale nationally, incorporating intensive care units at public and private hospitals of different levels of complexity in Spain.

Patients' experience while transitioning from the intensive care unit to a ward.

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients can experience emotional distress and post-traumatic stress disorder when they leave the ICU, also referred to as post-intensive care syndrome. A deeper understanding of what patients go through and what they need while they are transitioning from the ICU to the general ward may provide input on how to strengthen patient-centred care and, ultimately, contribute to a positive experience.

Aim: To describe the patients' experience while transitioning from the ICU to a general ward.

Academic evaluation, management and satisfaction of clinical practicums among undergraduate students: software CliPrAS@UB.

Aim/objective: To determine the development of competency acquisition, the satisfaction of the agents involved and recording incidents with a digital platform CliPrAS @UB on the Clinical Placements I and II courses in the second and third years of the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.

Background: The teaching of clinical practice subjects requires an analysis of the competence evolution, a management structure and an analysis of the satisfaction of the agents involved in the subject.

Design: Prospective, analytical, observational cohort study.

Design of the EBE-ST Questionnaire among Nursing Students: Multicenter Study from Eight Universities in Spain.

Background: Twenty years after the degree in nursing was introduced in Spain, the subject of evidence-based nursing is still unstructured and unestablished in most faculties. Moreover, there are hardly any rigorous studies at a national level that evaluate the current state of this competence in our faculties. Understanding the starting point is essential for the curricular design to ensure that evidence-based practice is implemented among future professionals.

The importance of organizational variables in treatment time for patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction improve delays in STEMI.

Background: The time between arrival at the emergency department (ED) and balloon (D2B) in STEMI is one of the best indicators of the quality of care. Our aim is to describe treatment times and evaluate the causes of delay.

Methods: This is an observational retrospective study, including all consecutive STEMI code patients ≥18 years old treated in the ED from 2013 to 2016.

Patient-Centered Outcomes with Pituitary and Parasellar Disease.

Over the last 2 decades, advances in the diagnosis and management of pituitary diseases have made it possible to attain an endocrine "cure" in a large proportion of patients. In other words, tumors can be excised or controlled with drugs, mass effects of the lesion on surrounding structures can be solved, and pituitary deficiencies can be substituted with all relevant hormones. While this is considered a satisfactory outcome for health care providers, patients often suffer from an aftermath of prior endocrine dysfunction exposure, with irreversible effects, both physically and psychologically, which have a great impact on their everyday life.

Analysis of the evolution of competences in the clinical practice of the nursing degree.

Objective: to analyze the student's progression in the acquisition of specific and transversal competences in relation to the competence dimensions.Method: the cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in the clinical practice subjects included in the Nursing Degree. We included 323 students and we contemplated the development of competences through an ad-hoc questionnaire with 4 dimensions: delivery and care management, therapeutic communication, professional development and care management.

Reduction of visual and auditory stimuli to reduce pain during venipuncture in premature infants. Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of the reduction of visual and auditory stimuli on pain during venipuncture in premature newborns of 32-36 weeks of gestation.

Design: Open, randomized, non-blind parallel clinical trial.

Method: Study to take place at the neonatal intensive care unit of a University Hospital in 2019-2021.

Level of satisfaction of critical care patients regarding the nursing care received: Correlation with sociodemographic and clinical variables.

Background: The satisfaction of critical care patients regarding the nursing care received is a key indicator of the quality of hospital care. It is, therefore, essential to identify the factors associated with the level of satisfaction of critical care patients.

Objectives: To analyse the level of satisfaction of critical care patients in relation to the nursing care received and to determine the relationship between the level of satisfaction and the sociodemographic and clinical variables.

Quality of Life in Cushing's disease: A long term issue?

The purpose of this review is to describe how quality of life (QoL) is impaired in patients with hypercortisolism due to Cushing's syndrome of any aetiology, including pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease. It is worse in active disease, but improvement after successful therapy is often incomplete, due to persistent physical and psychological co-morbidities, even years after endocrine "cure". Physical symptoms like extreme fatigability, central obesity with limb atrophy, hypertension, fractures, and different skin abnormalities severely impair the affected patients' everyday life.

Nursing Intensive-Care Satisfaction Scale [NICSS]: Development and validation of a patient-centred instrument.

Aim: The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Nursing Intensive-Care Satisfaction Scale to measures satisfaction with nursing care from the critical care patient's perspective.

Background: Instruments that measure satisfaction with nursing cares have been designed and validated without taking the patient's perspective into consideration. Despite the benefits and advances in measuring satisfaction with nursing care, none instrument is specifically designed to assess satisfaction in intensive care units.

Improving Quality of Life in Patients with Pituitary Tumours.

Evaluation of health-related quality of life (QoL) in people with pituitary tumours has received much attention over the last 10-15 years. Most of them show impaired QoL, but little is known about how to prevent impairment or how to improve QoL. Our aim is to review what is known about QoL in pituitary tumours patients and to highlight the areas worth improving, for the patient's well being.