International nursing students and clinical learning environments: A convergent mixed-methods study.

Aim: To acquire a comprehensive understanding of the international nursing students' clinical learning environments, comparing and contrasting qualitative and quantitative insights.

Background: The influx of international nursing students has increased in Italy and across Europe. These students, diverse in culture and language, encounter significant challenges to their education in clinical learning environments.

Factors Influencing Generation Z Bachelor of Nursing Students' Decision to Choose Nursing as a Career: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: Despite nurses representing the largest healthcare professional group, the number is not enough for global health coverage. Understanding Generation Z students' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, internal and external influences, and beliefs in choosing nursing education is crucial. This knowledge empowers universities to enhance nursing program enrollment through targeted promotion and recruitment strategies.

Measuring academic satisfaction in nursing students: a systematic review of the instruments.

Student academic satisfaction is one of the most important factors affecting the success and quality of a higher education institute and is an indicator about teaching and learning. This study aims to summarize and critically evaluate the instruments assessing academic satisfaction in nursing education. A systematic review was undertaken, PRISMA were used for the screening of studies.

Moral distress in nursing students: Cultural adaptation and validation study.

Background: Moral distress, defined as moral suffering or a psychological imbalance, can affect nursing students. However, many new instruments or adaptations of other scales that are typically used to measure moral distress have not been used for nursing students.

Aim: This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of an Italian version of the Moral Distress Scale for Nursing Students (It-ESMEE) for use with delayed nursing students (students who could not graduate on time or failed the exams necessary to progress to the next level).

Development and psychometric evaluation of the motivation for nursing student scale (MNSS): a cross sectional validation study.

Objectives: To develop a self-report scale to measure academic motivation among nursing students and to test its psychometric properties.

Methods: a cross-sectional validation study with a convenience sample of nursing students (n=1,635) was performed. The Motivation Nursing Students Scale was developed; content, face, construct validity, hypothesis testing and reliability were evaluated.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory for Nursing Students.

Background: Higher education students, especially nursing students, have drawn more attention as a group that is vulnerable to the risk of developing burnout syndrome.

Purpose: To test the psychometric properties of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory in Nursing (OLBI-N).

Methods: The OLBI-N validity and reliability was tested in a sample of 476 nursing students.

Nursing students' academic self-efficacy: A longitudinal analysis of academic self-efficacy changes and predictive variables over time.

Aim: To analyse any changes seen in the academic self-efficacy of nursing students during the three years of their academic education as well as the associated predictive factors.

Design: A longitudinal study design was applied.

Methods: The sample included 220 students who attended a large university in central Italy.

A Longitudinal Study about Substance Abuse among Italian Nursing Students: Can We Define a Socio-demographic Profile?

Background: University time is considered to be a period of vulnerability among nursing students for substance abuse, which can create an unsafe clinical practice. The aim of this study was to investigate the substance abuse of nursing students in the form of alcohol, drugs and tobacco use during the course of studies. In addition, another study aim was to describe a typical socio-demographic profile for substance-abusing students.

The role of occupational stress in the association between emotional labor and burnout in nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Unlabelled: Aim To test a model to evaluate the influence of emotional labor on burnout and the mediating role of work-related stress reported by nurses.

Background: Nurses are particularly exposed to work-related stress caused by their relationships with their patients. Even though their emotional involvement can cause work-related stress for professionals, nurses recognize this as a fundamental part of the caring relationship, and it has been proved to be therapeutic for patients.

Development and validation of Emotional Labour in Nursing Scale in Italy.

Background: Emotional demands may be a significant risk factor for wellbeing in healthcare professionals. Nurses have been considered the most exposed to emotional burden known as emotional labour. Scholars define it as the process by which nurses sometimes hide/fake the real emotion or struggle to display the appropriate emotion to meet the emotional work requirements.

Modified Moral Distress Scale (MDS-11): Validation Study Among Italian Nurses.

Background: Moral distress (MD) has significant implications on individual and organizational health. However there is a lack of an instrument to assess it among Italian nurses.

Aim: The main aim of this study was to validate a brief instrument to assess MD, developed from the Corley's Moral Distress Scale (MDS).

[Violating organizational and social norms in the workplace: a correlational study in the nursing context].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine, in a sample of nurses, the relationships between the organizational context variables (i.e., workload, interpersonal conflicts, organizational constraints), the burnout, the moral disengagement, and the counterproductive work behaviors (CWB), within their clinical work settings.

What do we know about emotional labour in nursing? A narrative review.

Nurses have to manage their emotions and the expression of emotion to perform best care, and their behaviours pass through emotional labour (EL). However, EL seems to be an under-appreciated aspect of caring work and there is no synthetic portrait of literature about EL in the nursing profession. This review was conducted to synthesise and to critically analyse the literature in the nursing field related to EL.

[Univerity students' exchange experience].

We report the experience of three University "La Sapienza" of Rome students (two of the Advanced Nursing master science course and one of the 3rd year of Nursing Degree) that participated to the FIPSE programme between European and Transatlantic Universities. The leader of the programme in our Country is Prof J. Sansoni.