Experience of primary care nurses applying nurse-led management of patients with acute minor illnesses.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the experience of primary health care nurses regarding the application of nurse-led management in patients with acute minor illnesses.

Background: Nursing leadership of care for acute minor illnesses is a new challenge faced by nurses in Spain.

Design: Qualitative, hermeneutical, interpretive phenomenological approach is used.

[Impact of training and legal aspects on the application of nurse demand management by primary care nurses in Catalonia].

Objective: To evaluate the experience of primary care nurses in the application of nurse demand management (NDM).

Design: Observational, cross-sectional descriptive study.

Location: Primary care in Catalonia.

Treatment of minor health problems by primary care nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Aims: To assess the results of a nursing-led program to treatment of minor health issues from Catalan health institute primary care teams during 2019 and 2020.

Background: In 2009, the Catalan health institute implemented a nursing program to deal with minor health problems. This nursing-led program includes an algorithm for each of the minor health problems and arose as a strategy to reorganise the flow of demand for care in primary care.

Dealing with Emotional Vulnerability and Anxiety in Nurses from High-Risk Units-A Multicenter Study.

Compassion fatigue and anxiety derived from continued exposure to trauma and death greatly impact nurses' quality of care and quality of life, increasing their desire to leave work. The aim of the study is to assess compassion fatigue and anxiety prevalence and their association with secondary variables. A multicenter, cross-sectional study in nurses from four high-risk units, Emergency, Intensive Care, Oncology, and Pediatrics, was carried out in 14 hospitals in Catalonia (Spain) between 2015 and 2016.

The usefulness and acceptance of the OSCE in nursing schools.

This qualitative study explores the usefulness and acceptance attributed by students and faculty members to an Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) administered to nursing undergraduates in Catalonia (Spain) for 10 years. Seventy undergraduate nursing students and twelve faculty members participated in the study. The data collection techniques included an open-ended questionnaire, a student focus group, and individualized faculty interviews.

[Nurse prescription: A concept analysis].

Objective: To critically analyse the concept of nursing prescription through the study of its background and a review of the scientific literature, in order to develop an accurate conception of this nursing activity and to identify the essential elements surrounding this concept.

Method: Application of the concept analysis method described by Wilson, and adapted by Avant.

Results: The concept of nurse prescription implies prescribing, by the nurse, the best therapeutic regimen for a health problem.

[Concept analysis: Nurse demand management].

Nurse demand management (NDM) is an emerging concept that requires some useful clarification, not only for professionals and users but also for managers. The NDM was born in 2009 after the need to reorganize the flow of demand, but it has become more than this. NDM is understood as a program led by the primary care nurse to take care of people with acute minor illnesses.

[Use of Mobile Health Applications in Primary Care Users].

Introduction: There are more than 165,000 mobile applications (apps) related to health (mHealth) available to patients, promoting their empowerment and reducing healthcare costs; but not all are reliable , safe and quality.

Objective: To analyze the use of mHealth for patients in a Primary Care Center (CAP).

Method: Cross-sectional study based on surveys of 274 patients, aged 16 to 65 years attending nursing consultation CAP Santa Eulalia Sud (L'Hospitalet de LLobregat) that have a mobile device with Internet.

Surveillance nursing diagnoses, ongoing assessment and outcomes on in-patients who suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest.

Objective The purposes of this study were to examine the frequency of surveillance-oriented nursing diagnoses and interventions documented in the electronic care plans of patients who experienced a cardiac arrest during hospitalization, and to observe whether differences exist in terms of patients' profiles, surveillance measurements and outcomes. Method A descriptive, observational, retrospective, cross-sectional design, randomly including data from electronic documentation of patients who experienced a cardiac arrest during hospitalization in any of the 107 adult wards of eight acute care facilities. Descriptive statistics were used for data analysis.

[The Care and the People and the ITC].

The advancement and consolidation of information and communications technologies (ICT) has favored electronic medical records as the link between the clinical and patient health information. Appropriate use of ICT can improve and ensure coordination between different health professionals and levels of care. The aim of ICT is to facilitate the continuum of care and foster care efficiency and quality.

Newborn physiological immaturity: a concept analysis.

Background: Most standardized nursing care plans for healthy neonates include multiple nursing diagnoses to reflect nurses' judgments on the infant's status; however scientific literature concerning this issue is scarce. Newborn physiological immaturity is a concept in the ATIC terminology (architecture, terminology, interface, information, nursing [infermeria], and knowledge [coneixement]) to represent the natural status of vulnerability of the healthy neonate.

Purpose: To identify the essential attributes of the concept and provide its conceptual and operational definition, using the Wilsonian approach.

Basic nursing care: retrospective evaluation of communication and psychosocial interventions documented by nurses in the acute care setting.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of psychosocial aspects of basic nursing care, as e-charted by nurses, when using an interface terminology.

Methods: An observational, multicentre study was conducted in acute wards. The main outcome measure was the frequency of use of the psychosocial interventions in the electronic nursing care plans, analysed over a 12 month retrospective review.

New technologies and nursing: use and perception of primary healthcare nurses about electronic health record in Catalonia, Spain.

This study was aimed to analyze and assess the use and perception of electronic health records (EHRs) by nurses. The study sample included 113 nurses from different shifts of primary health facilities in Catalonia, Spain, devoted to adult as well as pediatric outpatients using EHRs throughout the year 2010. A majority of the sample (87.

[Transport and storage of privately purchased vaccines].

Objective: Describe the transport and storage of privately purchased vaccines.

Method: A descriptive cross-sectional observational study. We analysed all doses of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, rotavirus and varicella acquired and administered between January-September 2009, in a Primary Care Health Centre (CAP) in an urban area.

[A trio of ladies. A reflection on the humanization of treatment].

Due to the celebration of the 90th anniversary, 1917-2007, of the Santa Madrona University School of Nursing, an International Conference on "the humanization of treatment" took place in Barcelona. At the same time, a four-day workshop session was organized at which the attendees had the chance to meet and share professional experiences with three renowned nurses on the art of caring. Dr.