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.

Nomophobia in healthcare: an observational study between nurses and students.

Background And Aim: The abuse of technical devices can be considered a form of addiction that is defined in current literature as Nomophobia. The phenomenon appears to be quite widespread among nurses and nursing students, and nomophobic behaviours of professionals can lead to a reduction in the quality of the care provided. The aim of this study is to investigate the situation in a University and in a hospital in northern Italy and evaluate the levels of nomophobia among nurses and students.

A third mission at the Nursing Study course University of Parma. Intervention report.

Background: The term Third Mission refers to the activities with which universities interact directly with the communities and the territory of reference, combining the objectives of the third mission with the two traditional missions: teaching and research.  These were the premises that guided the Nursing Studies Course of the University of Parma, with the goal of implementing a structured path of "Intercultural Nursing" on a demo-ethno-anthropological basis.

Methods: The path taken was divided into several phases: arrangement of moments of interaction with students; teaching activity aimed at students based on the relationship between ethno-anthropological knowledge, aspects of migration medicine and social legislation; direct meetings with representatives of some communities present in the Parma area.

De Garengeot's Hernia: a Diagnostic Challenge.

Surgical literature defines the case of acute appendicitis in a sac of femoral hernia as de Garengeot's hernia. The diagnosis remains a very hard challenge for surgeon because the symptoms are aspecific and the most effective tools for preoperative evaluation (as abdominal computed tomography and abdominal ultrasound scan) can often be indeterminate or misinterpreted. We report the case of an 85-year-old white male admitted to our unit complaining of a 1-day history of vague abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and painful swelling in the right groin.

Blood gas values in clamped and unclamped umbilical cord at birth.

Aim: To determine the reliability of the cord blood gas analysis on the unclamped cord compared to the standard technique of sampling on double clamped cord.

Study Design: Prospective observational study conducted on 46 singleton neonates vaginally delivered at term. Matched pairs of umbilical artery and vein blood samples were collected from unclamped cord within 90s after birth and from the same cord after clamping, with the clamping occurring immediately after the first blood collection.

Maternal metabolic control and perinatal outcome in women with gestational diabetes treated with regular or lispro insulin: comparison with non-diabetic pregnant women.

Objective: To compare maternal glucose levels and neonatal outcome, achieved in women with gestational diabetes (GDM) receiving either regular insulin or insulin lispro, with those of a control group of non-diabetic pregnant women.

Study Design: We enrolled 49 pregnant women with GDM, randomly allocated to the treatment with either insulin lispro (n=25) or regular insulin (n=24), and 50 pregnant women with normal GCT, matched for age, parity, pre-pregnancy weight and BMI, who formed the control group. All the women were caucasian, non-obese, with a singleton pregnancy and delivered term live born infants.

Sonographic evaluation of fetal growth and body composition in women with different degrees of normal glucose metabolism.

Objective: To investigate the maternal demographic and metabolic factors contributing to the growth of fetal lean and fat body mass in women whose degree of glucose intolerance is less than that defining gestational diabetes in comparison with women with normal glucose metabolism.

Research Design And Methods: Longitudinal sonographic examinations of 66 singleton fetuses without anomalies of nonobese mothers with abnormal oral glucose challenge test (GCT) results and without gestational diabetes (group 1) were compared with those of 123 singleton fetuses without anomalies of nonobese mothers with normal GCT values (group 2). Lean body mass measurements included head circumference, femur length, mid-upper arm, and mid-thigh central areas.