Defining a balance by compromising with fear: A grounded theory study on returning to eating after a total gastrectomy.

Objectives: Gastric cancer patients undergoing total gastrectomy face nutrition-related complications and worsening quality of life after surgery. In this context, gastrectomized cancer patients are required to cope with new conditions. Little is known about their accommodating feeding to the new life condition as a negotiated process among stakeholders in real contexts.

Assessment of COVID-19 Fear in Five European Countries before Mass Vaccination and Key Predictors among Nurses and Nursing Students.

Background: Levels of fear have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The absence of a safe and effective vaccine for mass-vaccination deteriorates this situation, which has a significant impact on mental health. This study aimed to assess the feelings of fear among nurses and nursing students in five European countries.

Factors influencing nursing students' intention to accept COVID-19 vaccination: A pooled analysis of seven European countries.

Background: Experiencing the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, high vaccination coverage by a safe and effective vaccine globally would be a great achievement. Acceptance of vaccination by nursing students is an important issue as they play a decisive role as future professionals in educating patients, counselling, and guiding them to the right clinical decision.

Objectives: To explore the intention of nursing students to get vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2 infection and the factors acting either as motivators or as barriers towards vaccination.

Core Evidence-Based Practice Competencies and Learning Outcomes for European Nurses: Consensus Statements.

Background: Consensus on evidence-based practice (EBP) competencies and associated learning outcomes for registered nurses has not yet been achieved in the European context.

Aims: To establish a set of core EBP competencies for nurses and the most important EBP learning outcomes encompassing attitudes, knowledge, and skills dimensions for implementation into nursing education in European countries.

Methods: A multi-phase modified Delphi survey was conducted: Phase 1, a literature review; Phase 2, a two-round consensus of experts; and Phase 3, a Delphi survey.

[Italian Validation of Evidence Based Practice Evaluation Competence Questionnaire (EBP-COQ)].

Introduction: due to the nature of Evidence-Based Practice and its relevance to nursing, the skills that it requires should be integrated in the healthcare degree programs. Therefore, the Evidence-Based Practice process should be introduced in the nursing education program to strengthen the students' independence and self-learning skills. The evaluation of the effectiveness of the academic teaching and the assessment of the competence degree achieved by students are hindered by the lack of validated assessment instruments.

Teaching evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing curricula in six European countries-A descriptive study.

Background: Teaching evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing education varies among nurse educators and universities. Lack of nurses' knowledge and skills are among the barriers commonly associated with the limited use of EBP in practice.

Objectives: To describe the presence, characteristics and content of courses of EBP in nursing bachelor's, master's, and PhD programs in six European countries.

"Challenging Professional Boundaries": A Grounded Theory Study of Health Professionals' First Experiences of End-of-Life Care in Hospital.

Little is known about health professionals first experiences of End-of-Life care in hospital. This study aims to understand the psycho-social process that occurs when hospital-based health professionals engage in caring for a dying patient for the first time. We conducted a Grounded Theory study, with 19 health professionals.

Educational Interventions for Teaching Evidence-Based Practice to Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Scoping Review.

: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the appropriate approach to guide healthcare personnel in their clinical practice. Despite the importance of EBP, undergraduate nursing students are not very much engaged and have a lack of knowledge and skills. : The aim of this study was to gather, assess and synthesize evidence on educational interventions promoting evidence-based practice competencies in traditional undergraduate nursing students.

Linguistic-cultural validation of the oral health assessment tool (OHAT) for the Italian context.

Background: The increase in the ageing population and the consequent establishment of a network of adequate structures to respond effectively to the welfare needs of institutionalized elderly people have stimulated the discussion by healthcare professionals on the subject of oral hygiene.Literature data show that the same attention has not been paid to oral health care compared to other health needs. Many studies have demonstrated that oral health has a significant impact on the quality of life, especially for older people.

[The linguistic and cultural validation of a tool to evaluate the cultural competence in nurses].

Introduction: Cultural competence is described as a complex process of elements useful to work in an intercultural context. It could be evaluated with several different tools. In literature different English scales are available, and all of them start from the operator's perception.

The Italian validation of the Salford-Scott Nursing Values Questionnaire.

Background: To properly direct nursing training and to improve the professional practice to become more effective, it is important to understand students' values. Literature review has shown that there have been changes in students' values in the last 20 years. In contemporary students, a general decrease in altruism has been observed, but also a larger appreciation for honesty toward patients has been declared.

[Nursing competences and basic education: descriptive study on new-graduate nurses].

Unlabelled: The pressing need by the health organizations of new-graduate nurses immediately able to take full charge of the ward, together with the radical changes of nursing education, led the professional community to discuss the education of new-graduate nurses.

Aim: To describe if new-graduate nurses at the Nursing Degree Course in Reggio Emilia, have the competences adequate to the demands of the health care organizations.

Methods: Fifty ward Nursing Manager of a National health Service, where new-graduate nurses of the 2009-2010 academic year were emploied by at least one month were interviewed by phone.

[Assessment and choice of the device for vascular access].

The accurate vascular monitoring by nurses both at the beginning and during infusion treatment, in addition to the selection of the best device for each patient, can increase patient satisfaction, reduce complications, preserve peripheral veins, reduce or eliminate time used to find unlikely vein access, reduce hospital stay length and reduce the costs associated with infusion treatment. Aims of study are to ascertain the presence of a procedure for choosing the most suitable venous device for each patient, to identify nurses' criteria to make a vascular assessment, and to describe when nurses make a vascular assessment. A descriptive study with convenience sample of 290 nurses.

Teaching evidence-based practice: developing a curriculum model to foster evidence-based practice in undergraduate student nurses.

Unlabelled: For the nature of the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and its relevance to nursing, the skills that it requires should be a component in the basic Nursing degree courses. For this reason, the EBP process should be introduced early on in nursing education to develop students' independence and ability to self-learning.

Aim: the aim of this study is to describe the perception that newly graduated nurses have relative to the benefits of the skills learned during the laboratory's three-year EBP in consideration of the construction of the thesis, the research of evidence and usefulness of the EBP process for the development of their professional career.

[Evidence-based practice in nursing curricula: the experience of nursing degree course of Reggio Emilia. A pilot study].

Given the lack of evidence in literature concerning the presence of Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in nursing curricula, but considering its importance in order to educate future nurses to use critical thinking and to base their practice on scientific evidence, tutors and nursing teachers of the Nursing Degree Course of Reggio Emilia (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia), have decided to introduce a three-year laboratory of EBP. The purposes of this project are: to describe the three-year EBP laboratory of Nursing Degree, its objectives, its structure, its integration with practical training and nursing subjects and its students evaluation strategies; to get students verify the perception of the usefulness of the three-year EBP laboratory regarding the elaboration of the graduation thesis, the search for appropriatem answers for patients met during clinical trainings and the usefulness of the EBP process in view of the development of their professional career. The design of research of this pilot study is correlation-descriptive.

[Nurse's competence indicators: linguistic and cultural validation of the Nurse Competence Scale].

Unlabelled: For some years, the clinical performance of new-graduate nurses, has been a leading topic in international scientific literature. In Italy there are many criticisms to basic education; ever since the basic education moved from the regional schools to the university, the main question that the teachers, the clinical nurses and the nursing managers are asking is whether the level of competence of new-graduates is appropriate to the demands of the world of work. Many criticisms have been addressed to the gap between theory and practice and between education and clinic.

[Nursing interventions for the prevention of the delirium in intensive care unit (ICU): a randomized study].

Unlabelled: The delirium is a common and problematic condition that involves between 10% and 50% of the in-patients. The in-patients in intensive care unit (ICU) are more at risk (about 38%). These data are not realistic because delirium is a condition that can be either unrecognized or misdiagnosed; between 66% and 84% of delirium in elderly hospitalized patients is unrecognized by clinicians.

[The relative's need of participation in the care plan in a general medicine ward].

All the scientific literature agrees on the fact that the shelter in hospital is a delicate moment for the patient. Also for relatives the shelter in hospital of their dear one is not of easy management, often they are excluded, insecure, alone and with a frankly uncertain role. The purpose of this study is to explore the role and the needs perceived from the relatives of an in-patient in a general medicine unit and to explore which role and which needs of the relatives are perceived from the nurses of a same ward.

[A randomized study to manage the peripheral intravenous catheter with saline washing].

The scope of this study is to compare the washing of the CVP using normal saline solution before each closure and every 6 hours, with closing the CVP using an obturator after the suspension of the infused therapy, in function of the maintenance of the perviousness and the appearance of complications. The study population included 83 patients; using the randomised trail technique, 40 patients had been assigned to the group of washing and 43 to the group of the obturator. The results of this study demonstrate that, in order to maintain the perviousness of the CVP and the reduction of the appearance of complications, there is no significant difference between the washing of the CVP with normal saline solution before each closure with a stopper and every 6 hours, and the closure of the CVP with an obturator without washing at the suspension of the infused therapy.

[Criteria used by nurses in choosing the site for intramuscular injections: custom or scientific evidence?].

The nursing literature of the last 20 years recommends the ventrogluteal site how the best site for intramuscular injections Beecroft, Redick, 1990, but, the few studies done with the aim to discover which is the most frequently used site report that the dorsogluteal site is the one preferred from nurses Farley, Joyce, Long et al., 1996. The propose of this descriptive study is to understand which are the criteria used by nurses when they have to decide which site choose for administering an intramuscular injection.