Suitability of therapeutic effort in paediatric intensive care units: Opinion and attitude of professionals.

Objective: To determine the opinion and describe the attitude of different health professionals on suitability of therapeutic effort.

Method: Multi-centre, cross-sectional observational study carried out with nurses and doctors who work in the paediatric intensive care units of four hospitals in the Madrid region. A self-administered questionnaire, previously piloted to assess its viability, was used and a sealed box was set up at the nursing station to hand it in.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus prevalence and care in children under 15 years old in Asturias.

Introduction: Prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is increasing worldwide. Care provided appears to have an influence on the course of disease. The aim of this study was to ascertain the prevalence of T1DM and to collect data on the resources and care used in Asturias.

[Training in community health: challenges, threats and opportunities. SESPAS Report 2018].

Incorporating community health teaching in the undergraduate nursing and medicine curriculum and postgraduate training programmes contributes to enhance the quality, rigour and sustainability of health-promoting community interventions. In this article, we discuss the failure of Spanish Medical Universities to include family and community medicine and primary health care as integrated and cross-cutting disciplines on the undergraduate curriculum. During specialized medical and nursing training, community health teaching varies widely depending on the qualification, priorities and motivation of the primary health care workers, teaching units and trainees.

[Quality perceived by users of minor surgery according to care level and the professionals that carried it out].

Objective: Nowadays minor surgery is performed by di- fferent professionals at primary as well as specialized care. Being a healthcare technology, minor surgery must be assessed in order to achieve an organizational efficiency. User's satisfaction must be one of the quality criteria.

The training of specialists in Family and Community Health Nursing according to the supervisors of the teaching units.

Objective: To analyze the current situation of the training of specialists in family and community nursing from the perspective of nurses responsible for teaching units.

Methods: Exploratory analysis using nominal group technique of the contributions made by representatives of 19 multidisciplinary teaching units in family and community care from 11 Spanish autonomous communities. They categorized and weighted those contributions.

[Research competencies in nursing specialties].

Since nursing became an university degree in 1977, there have been several regulations to develop specialties, all of them agreeing on the need to include skills in research. Indeed, the relevance of acquiring these skills in all current disciplines has led to Royal Decree 99/2011, which regulates the official PhD courses, and recognises specialist nurses as qualified to access PhD studies. Nowadays, students from six of the seven specialties included in the Royal Decree 450/2005 on nursing specialties, are performing their training.

[Difficulties and opportunities for research as perceived by nurses in Asturias (Spain)].

Objective: To identify, through communicative consensus, the difficulties and opportunities for research perceived by nurses in Asturias (Spain).

Method: The Regional Ministry of Health and the Health Service of Asturias made an open call and 80 nurses from all fields (clinical, teaching, and management) were assigned to 10 groups. Using a nominal group technique, these nurses identified and prioritized the difficulties and opportunities they perceived for research.