Publications by authors named "Virginia La Rosa-Salas"

Background: Person-centered care (PCC) positively impacts individuals by enhancing self-care, autonomy, well-being, skills, quality of life, and satisfaction with their care experience. The Person-Centered Practice Inventory-Care (PCPI-C), grounded in the Person-Centered Practice theoretical framework, is designed to assess healthcare users' perceptions of the PCC they receive. This study aims to develop the first Spanish version of the PCPI-C, translated and adapted to the Spanish context.

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Person-centredness, a global movement in healthcare, is consistent with international developments in healthcare policy. It is important to have instruments to measure person-centred care. The Person-Centred Practice Inventory-Staff (PCPI-S) is an internationally recognized instrument that aims to measure how healthcare staff experience person-centred practice.

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Background: The global population of long-term cancer survivors is increasing, thanks to advances in treatments and care. Healthcare systems are working to address the unique needs of these individuals. However, there remains a knowledge gap concerning nurses' view on cancer survivorship care.

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Purpose: The aim of this article is to present the Nursing Educational Framework (NEF) as an opportunity to integrate core elements of a humanistic person/family-centered view and as guidance in structuring a relationship-based curriculum.

Data Sources: Empirical and theoretical literature studies were reviewed to define the framework rationale and its components.

Data Synthesis: A deductive/inductive collaborative expert-informed approach was undertaken to develop this evidence-based codesigned framework.

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Background: Person-centred practices - following national and international developments in health-care policies - have become a key approach in healthcare. The Person-Centred Practice Inventory - Staff is an instrument based on the theoretical framework Person-Centred Practice that focuses on the staff's perspective and how they experience person-centred practices. Here, the aim of this study is to obtain the first Spanish version of the PCPI-S translated and adapted into the Spanish context.

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A randomized pilot study was conducted involving 69 third-year nursing students (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05270252). Students were randomly assigned to the CG ( = 34) or the intervention group ( = 35), using computer-generated randomization.

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Aim: The aims of this paper are (1) to present the results of the development, content validation and implementation study of the Relationship Competencies Guiding Tool; (2) to provide examples of how each item in the tool is reflected in clinical narratives written by nurses and justify the corresponding scores after the evaluation; (3) to present how the language and content of the narratives are interpreted with the tool and to describe an exemplar; and (4) to present barriers to and facilitators of the application of the tool.

Background: From a person-centered care approach, the fostering of authentic relationships with patients is key to achieving therapeutic benefits. Therefore, it is essential to help nurses establish meaningful relationships with patients and help them acquire these abilities.

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The number of cancer survivors is increasing exponentially thanks to early screening, treatment, and cancer care. One of the main challenges for healthcare systems and professionals is the care of cancer survivors and their families, as they have specific needs that are often unmet. Nursing students, as future healthcare professionals, need education to face these new health demands.

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Background: Person-centered care has become a key global approach that seeks to provide answers to all factors of the complex health care-related processes. This has led to the development of theoretical frameworks that represent the components of person-centered care. The internationally recognized Person-Centred Practice Framework (PCPF) (McCormack and McCance) allows multidisciplinary teams to understand and operationalize the dimensions for the development of person-centered care.

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Aim: Survivorship care plans (SCPs) are recommended as a tool for the care of cancer survivors. SCPs have been implemented with a multidisciplinary approach; however, the specific role of nurses in the SCP is unknown. Our aim is to determine the role of nurses and their degree of participation in cancer SCPs.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to investigate the teaching methods used for cancer training in health sciences undergraduate programs.
  • An integrative review analyzed 40 articles from various health databases, focusing on methods like case studies, problem-based learning, and project-oriented learning.
  • The findings highlighted the need for diverse educational approaches to enhance students' competency in cancer care and emphasized the importance of interprofessional education and patient involvement in training.
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Background: Cancer survivors (CSs) have needs that can negatively impact their quality of life (QoL). Oncology nurses play a key role in providing comprehensive care in cancer survivorship, although little is known about their impact on health outcomes.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of nursing interventions to improve QoL and satisfaction with care of CSs.

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Background: Clinical narratives may be used as a means to improve the acquisition of clinical competences. Even though there are studies that recognize the potential value of clinical narratives to promote nursing professional development, there is no evidence that shows their value as a tool to improve nurses' competences to provide person-centred nursing care.

Purpose: To evaluate the preliminary efficacy of narratives for the development of three nursing professional competences -respect, intentional presence and knowing the person- for providing person-centred care.

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It has long been known that a segment of the population enjoys distinctly better health status and higher quality of health care than others. To solve this problem, prioritization is unavoidable, and the question is how priorities should be set. Rational priority setting would seek equity amongst the whole population, the extent to which people receive equal care for equal needs.

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