Publications by authors named "Milko Zanini"
Aim: To identify factors protecting and hindering the well-being of critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Background: The unique work challenges of critical care nurses can undermine their professional and mental well-being; as evidenced by the prevailing literature on burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen these professionals on the front lines and has raised many questions about professional well-being.
Background: Pre-hospital emergency nurses, frequently exposed to high-stress situations, are at risk for burnout and stress-related issues, affecting their overall well-being. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL) scale, widely used among hospital nurses, remains untested in pre-hospital emergency settings.
Aim: To adapt and validate the ProQoL scale for pre-hospital emergency contexts and explore the protective role of emotional intelligence in professional well-being.
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- This study looks at how well nursing leaders in Europe are using research to make decisions about staffing.
- They asked leaders from 12 different countries about their staffing and work organization but found that many didn't have complete data.
- The conclusion is that simply knowing about research isn't enough; nurse leaders need to push for better staffing policies using the evidence they have.
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- The study looked at how teaching methods in nursing schools can help students develop important emotional skills (called Emotional Competencies or EC).
- Researchers examined lots of studies from different countries to find out which teaching methods were the best.
- They found that using simulations and role-playing was really effective for improving skills like empathy and teamwork, plus students liked these methods better too!
The review by Woo et al. reports on factors influencing behaviour in the care of the diabetic foot, wich are common in diabetic patients and have a high risk of infection and amputation. To improve patient's knowledge and education on foot care, this commentary proposes the Barrows cards as an innovative user-friendly educational method.
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- The study aimed to understand how transgender people feel and what they experience when they’re in the hospital.
- Researchers looked through 22 different studies to find common themes, like how transgender people see themselves, issues with being misgendered, and a lack of training for hospital staff.
- The conclusion is that many transgender patients have bad experiences, and it’s important for healthcare workers to get better training to provide proper care and support for them.
Aim: To explore the attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 vaccines.
Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.
Methods: Five focus groups were conducted between October and November 2021, with a total of 30 nurses from different contexts in Northern Italy.
Introduction: The aging of the population requires an appropriate knowledge of the type of care that needs to be provided to inform healthcare policies. In Italy, neither home care nursing, nor the patient experiences have ever been described.
Objectives: To describe the characteristics of nurses and care recipients involved in home care.
Aims: To describe how workplace violence (WPV) is experienced by nurses in hospitals and community services and identify protective and risk factors.
Methods: An online cross-sectional national study was conducted from January to April 2021 in Italy. Hospitals and community services were involved in the study.
Higher nurse-to-patient ratios are associated with poor patient care and adverse nurse outcomes, including emotional exhaustion and intention to leave. We examined the effect of nurses' intention to leave and nurse-patient workload on in-hospital patient mortality in Italy. A multicentered descriptive and regression study using clinical data of patients aged 50 years or older with a hospital stay of at least two days admitted to surgical wards linked with nurse variables including workload and education levels, work environment, job satisfaction, intention to leave, nurses' perception of quality and safety of care, and emotional exhaustion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Acute Renal Failure is an essential condition frequently encountered in intensive care units and requires targeted treatment. The critical care nursing team must be adequately trained to manage patients undergoing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.
Objectives: To develop and validate the Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy - Measurement Competency Tool, aimed at measuring nursing competence in managing patients undergoing renal replacement techniques.
Purpose: To examine informal carers' experiences during their child's hospitalization and evaluate the associations with care received and care context.
Design And Methods: What is described in this article is only a part of the larger study, RN4CAST@IT-Ped, a multicenter cross-sectional study, with multi-level data collection through convenience sampling, the Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey was used to collect data from informal carers of pediatric patients, applying the "top box" approach.
Results: Nine hospitals, 1472 nurses, and 635 children's parents were involved.
Aim: This protocol proposes a systematic review to identify and disclose learning strategies and evaluation tools to improve Emotion Intelligence (EI) in undergraduate nursing students.
Background: EI improves the ability to manage emotions and their consequences. Management of emotions is fundamental in nursing both at inter- and intra-professional levels, and with the patients and their family carers.
Introduction: Heart failure has an enormous impact in terms of mortality, morbidity, and costs for healthcare organizations. Indications for implanted heart devices, such as pacemakers or implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are constantly increasing. With the arrival of the telemedicine, nurses play an important role in the remote management of chronic heart diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: A large proportion of all pregnancies worldwide occur in young adolescent women, and almost all these pregnancies are unintentional. To address effective educational interventions, it is necessary to assess adolescents' literacy on this topic. The aim of this study was to translate and validate the Italian version of the SexContraKnow instrument.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: During their clinical practice, nursing students learn to manage patient safety through their experiences, emotions, and interpersonal relationships.
Objectives: To explore contextual and mechanistic factors that facilitate a sense of emotional safety for learning in nursing students, particularly regarding patient safety events experienced during their placements.
Design: A descriptive qualitative study using narratives and thematic analysis.
Introduction: Despite the growing importance of nursing fundamentals of care, nurses often overlook these aspects of care. In this study, we explored why this happens precisely where nursing education is initially provided. In fact, little is known about how undergraduate nursing students perceive the teaching of fundamentals of care and how they value them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To report an analysis of the concept of fundamental care in the literature.
Design: An evolutionary concept analysis.
Data Sources: PubMed and CINAHL Complete databases were consulted using the key terms: fundamental care, fundamentals of care, essential care, basic nursing care and basic care revised.
Aim: The study aims to explore the experiences of nurses who have worked in Covid-19 wards providing care for Covid-19 patients.
Background: During the Covid-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment (PPE) was considered an effective and guaranteed protective measure.
Methods: This is a descriptive qualitative study with thematically analysed interviews.