Health coaching for undergraduate nursing students: a pilot study for an action research.

Background And Aim: The Nursing undergraduate degree educational program represents an intensive and complex course, and includes a number of professionalizing practical internships, and for these reasons it requires an action to support and improve. Coaching is based on the premise that people have personal strengths and abilities which, through a interview, can be directed to solving their problems. Several studies demonstrate the efficacy of Health Coaching in different University, but never have been measured benefits regard skills improving.

Education nursing students' in Palliative Care and Pain Therapy: an observational study.

Background And Aim: University education plays an important role in the preparation of future nurses, especially in the care of dying patients, which is one of the most emotionally engaging aspects. The objectives of the study were to describe the attitudes of students in end-of-life care and to analyze the possible relationship with some socio-demographic variables, through an observational study.

Methods: Preliminarily, an analysis of the educational context of the Nursing Course  of the University of Parma was started, through a comparison of the university course with the recommendations of the MIUR concerning the teaching and learning of Palliative Care and Pain Therapy.

Competence assessment of the clinical tutor: a multicentric observational study.

Background And Aim Of The Study: In the international literature there are no validated tools which investigate clinical tutors' skills. The main objective of the study has been to describe the clinical nurse tutor's skills, required to properly train nursing students during their educational path.

Methods: In this observational study a non-probability sampling has been used.

Nursing students' perception of the quality of clinical learning: a mixed methods inquiry.

Background And Aim: As part of the Nursing Degree Course, the "internship" period represents a strategic lever to systemize the fundamental combination of theoretical study and nursing practice. However, only a few studies have examined in depth students' perception of this experience. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of the places in which the University of Parma's Nursing students did their internships based on their experience.