Publications by authors named "Pietro Altini"

Background: Effective performance of clinical handovers should be one of the priorities of nursing education to promote efficient communication skills and ensure patient safety. However, to date, no studies have explored to what extent nursing students are involved in handovers.

Objective: To explore nursing students' handover involvement during their clinical rotations and associated factors.

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Background: Easy-to-access tools have been demonstrated to improve evidence-based practice (EBP) competences among nursing students. However, students' perception of access to EBP tools (e.g.

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Background: Undergraduate nursing students have been documented to experience ethical distress during their clinical training and felt poorly supported in discussing the ethical issues they encountered.

Research Aims: This study was aimed at exploring nursing students' perceived opportunity to discuss ethical issues that emerged during their clinical learning experience and associated factors.

Research Design: An Italian national cross-sectional study design was performed in 2015-2016.

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Unlabelled: . The Clinical Learning Quality Evaluation Index for nursing students.

Introduction: The Italian nursing programs, the need to introduce tools evaluating the quality of the clinical learning as perceived by nursing students.

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Unlabelled: . A comparison of the most used instruments to assess the quality of clinical learning environments of nursing students.

Introduction: A clinical learning environment (CLE) promotes the development of professional competences, of critical and diagnostic reasoning in future nurses, thus the continuous assessment of its quality is pivotal.

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Unlabelled: . Validation of the Italian Clinical Learning Environment Instrument (SVIAT): study protocol.

Introduction: Nursing students obtain most of their university credits in internship environments whose quality can affect their clinical learning.

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Background: Although communication and counseling skills are essential for nursing profession, specific educational program are not so widespread.

Aim: Evaluation of the improvement of Counseling skills as a result of a specific training.

Methods: A multi-center pilot study with pre-post test design with a convenience sample of 65 students was carried out.

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