Publications by authors named "Nicola Ramacciati"

Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an intervention to improve health and quality of life in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The use of digital technology for healthcare promotion, such as telemedicine, has received growing attention in recent years due to the possibility of offering remote and individualized cardiac rehabilitation to patients undergoing coronary interventions. However, the impact of cardiac telerehabilitation on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is not fully understood.

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Introduction: Improved survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with good neurological outcome was observed in association with dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation, increasing the number of bystander-initiated resuscitations and minimizing the no-flow time in the first minutes of cardiac arrest.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to map and summarise the existing literature on dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation, focusing on reported experiences, challenges, and best practices, highlighting strategies that could improve the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructions to bystanders during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Inclusion Criteria: Studies related to dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation, involving human subjects, with an English abstract.

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Aim: The study aimed to analyze students' approach to evidence-based practice and evaluate the effect of teaching (based on lessons in statistics, epidemiology, evidence-based nursing, bioengineering, English language) and internship experiences on the attitude of nursing students to evidence-based practice.

Method: In 2019,one hundred nineteen second-year nursing students from an Italian university were involved in a pre-post longitudinal study. The Italian version of the Student-Evidence Based Practice Questionnaire was administered to nursing student in four moments of one academic year.

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Aim: The aim of this study is to generate empirical evidence, drawing from clinical records, with the goal of elevating the level of evidence supporting the nursing diagnosis (ND) of 'chronic pain'.

Background: Chronic pain is a prevalent condition that affects all age groups. Patients often feel disbelieved about their pain perception, leading to adverse psychological effects, difficulty accessing healthcare and poor rehabilitation outcomes.

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic was a whispered problem for nurses, causing feelings of anxiety, stress, and burnout. Many studies investigated the pandemic's negative effects on nurses, but the relationship between burnout and the quality of life (QoL) in Italian nurses was lacking.

Aim: To describe Italian nurses quality of life and stress during the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Aim/objective: To report and synthesize the main strategies for teaching clinical reasoning described in the literature in the context of advanced clinical practice and promote new areas of research to improve the pedagogical approach to clinical reasoning in Advanced Practice Nursing.

Background: Clinical reasoning and clinical thinking are essential elements in the advanced nursing clinical practice decision-making process. The quality improvement of care is related to the development of those skills.

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Background And Aim: Vaccine hesitancy is an important problem in terms of health policy. This historical moment leads us to wonder if vaccine hesitancy is also present among nursing students who should be particularly sensitive to the subject Methods: Between February 10 to February 17 2021, 1080 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing in the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Perugia, were invited to reply to an online questionnaire sent to their university email accounts.

Results And Conclusions: A certain amount of vaccination hesitancy was detected among the students in our study.

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Background And Aim: Patients who present to an Emergency Department (ED) and leave without being seen by a physician represent a safety concern because they may become severely ill and experience adverse events as a result of lacking or delayed ED treatment. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the increasing number of patients accessing care through the ED in Italy and throughout the world has had implications for health policies.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study that included all ED visits from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2018 in the Perugia University Hospital has been carried out.

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Background: Nurses, particularly emergency nurses, are among the health workers most exposed to workplace violence (WPV). Despite WPV recording systems are becoming more common, the under-reporting is still widespread. Studies suggest that the use of simple and easy registration systems could facilitate the reporting of violent events.

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Background And Aim: The use of Evidence-Based Practices in nursing has become essential for providing effective, safe, and personalized care. Nurses must learn the skill to use Evidence-Based Practice in universities, which represents the core of nursing education. Therefore, it appears necessary to evaluate students' learning after the training period and to identify the strengths and obstacles to the implementation of Evidence-Based Practice put to use.

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Incidents of violence by healthcare users against staff have been considered as sentinel events. New forms of aggression, i.e.

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Background: Nurses, particularly emergency nurses, are among the health workers most exposed to workplace violence. Although reporting systems are increasingly used, under-reporting remains high. Recent studies suggest that the use of easy registration systems could facilitate violence reporting.

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  • Maternal satisfaction is a key measure of the quality of maternity services, and a study was conducted to evaluate this by using an online questionnaire for women who delivered in the last three years.
  • Out of 1,229 participants, many expressed dissatisfaction with aspects of their care, particularly around involvement in decision-making during delivery, with 30% feeling excluded and 13.9% fearing the experience would affect future childbirth decisions.
  • The study highlights the importance of supportive environments and the need to prioritize the mother-partner-child connection, suggesting that healthcare strategies should be adjusted to improve overall satisfaction during delivery.
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Aim: To determine the characteristics of workplace violence towards emergency nurses in Campania, South Italy.

Introduction: In Italy, workplace violence is a severe and widespread problem. A national survey describes that, working in South Italy significantly increases the probability of being exposed.

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Violence in the health sector is a widespread worldwide phenomenon. Emergency nurses and emergency physicians are among the most exposed. In violent incidents, security personnel also play an important role.

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Introduction: Violence in the health sector is a severe and widespread phenomenon worldwide, which increasingly attracts the attention of international scholars. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the contribution of Italian nursing research on the issue of violence in health care.

Methods: Starting from a search in the international databases PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus, and Italian ILISI and the SISI archive, we found 49 works by Italian nursing researchers and scholars.

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Background: Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) are widely used to treat bradyarrhythmias or improve the prognosis of patients with heart failure (HF).

Aims: To evaluate age-related (≤ 75 vs. > 75 years) attitudes, worries, psychological effects and needs in an Italian CIEDs population.

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