How do healthcare professionals and managers view the role of the advanced practice nurse?

Background: Advanced practice nurses (APN) growth depends on the implementation and acceptance of APNs in each country.

Introduction: Given the diversity of the different contexts and varying population health needs where APNs are developing, this study focuses on exploring the viewpoints of the multidisciplinary and management team who have worked with APNs in public hospitals in Catalonia, Spain.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with previously identified APNs, health professionals, and health managers.

Contextual factors influencing the implementation of advanced practice nursing in Catalonia, Spain.

Background: Advanced practice nurse (APN) roles bring great added value to health systems. However, their integration into the health workforce and the sustainability of the role depend on contextual factors surrounding their implementation.

Aim: To explore the contextual factors that influence the organization, implementation, and performance of clinical practice among oncology APNs in Catalonia (Spain).

Nurse-led clinical activity in kidney transplantation care in Spain: A cross-sectional observational study.

Objectives: To explore the presence of specialist outpatient nursing activity in care for kidney transplant recipients in Spain and to determine the level of competence development of this activity according to the Advanced Practice Nurse model.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional study.

Participants And Measurements: All outpatient nurses specialising in renal transplantation in the 39 transplant hospitals in Spain were included.

Contextual factors of advanced practice nursing development: A network analysis.

Aims: This study aimed to delineate the relationships between actors and contextual factors associated with the development of the advanced practice role in Catalonia.

Methods: A complementary data analysis was conducted based on the social network analysis (SNA) method. The primary study design was qualitative, descriptive and explanatory.

Advanced practice nurses: Analysis of their role from a multicentre cross-sectional study.

Background: Stronger healthcare models are increasingly sought to address new population needs, health workforce inefficiencies and nursing shortages. One strategy is to focus on employees' strengths to capitalize on their competencies and maximize their scope of practice.

Introduction: Globally, there is an exponential demand for advanced practice nursing services.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, resilience and depression in health professionals: a cross-sectional study.

Aim: To describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, resilience and depression in health professionals from a public hospital in Barcelona, Spain after the first peak of pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic in Spain has pushed boundaries in health systems and, especially, for health professionals. Analysis of resilience as an individual resource and it is essential to understand the mechanisms that make staff react unfavourably to stressors caused by the pandemic.

The emerging role of the advanced practice epilepsy nurse: A comparative study between two countries.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare advanced practice in epilepsy nurses in Spain and United Kingdom, identifying differences in the domains of standard advanced practice.

Background: Europe has recently faced the challenge of providing high-quality care for patients with epilepsy, a disease that generates many health demands. In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, advanced practice nursing is well established and could serve as a guide for implantation in countries where it is still in development, as is the case of Spain.

[Management and leadership of nursing services in the emergency plan for the pandemic COVID-19: the experience of the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona].

At the international level, the enormous demand to manage the COVID-19 pandemic has posed a challenge both in the provision of personnel and in supplies and sanitary material. There is no precedent or publication related to the management and leadership of nursing services in Spain within the emergency plan for the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes the experience of the Hospital Clinico de Barcelona in the current extraordinary circumstances that undoubtedly constitute a nursing management of enormous magnitude and unprecedented due to the high number of people affected and the extraordinary risk of healthcare personnel.

Spanish version of the Satisfaction with Epilepsy Care questionnaire: Adaptation and psychometric properties.

Objective: The objective of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaption and psychometric evaluation of the Spanish version of the Satisfaction with Epilepsy Care (SEC) questionnaire and analyze patient satisfaction with epilepsy care.

Methods: Transcultural adaptation and validation of the SEC were carried out using translation and back-translation with pilot testing and an expert panel. The SEC-E (Spanish) was analyzed in 213 patients with epilepsy to examine construct and criterion validity and internal consistency.

Context and implementation of advanced nursing practice in two countries: An exploratory qualitative comparative study.

Background: The complexity and difficulties involved in the development and implementation of health innovations, such as advanced practice nursing roles, result in slow and sporadic international acceptance. To manage this complexity, it is advisable to deepen understanding of the context in which these innovation processes take place. However, there is little research specifically concerned with contextual factors that influence the implementation of advanced practice nursing roles.

Spanish version of the modified Advanced Practice Role Delineation tool, adaptation and psychometric properties.

Background: Role clarity is vital to avoid confusion and role ambiguity within nursing. There is a need for valid, reliable tools that can delineate the profile of advanced nursing practice to measure the extent of advanced practices in Spain.

Aim: The main purpose of this study was to translate, cross-culturally adapt, and psychometrically test the Spanish version of the modified Advanced Practice Role Delineation tool.

Profile of advanced nursing practice in Spain: A cross-sectional study.

In this study, we described the profile of advanced nursing practice in Spain. A cross-sectional study design was used to explore the extent and patterns of advanced nursing practice activity within the domains of expert care planning, integrated care, interprofessional collaboration, education, research, evidence-based practice, and professional leadership. Data were collected in 2015/2016.

Analysis instruments for the performance of Advanced Practice Nursing.

Advanced Practice Nursing has been a reality in the international context for several decades and recently new nursing profiles have been developed in Spain as well that follow this model. The consolidation of these advanced practice roles has also led to of the creation of tools that attempt to define and evaluate their functions. This study aims to identify and explore the existing instruments that enable the domains of Advanced Practice Nursing to be defined.