Impact of Nurses’ Intervention in the Prevention of Falls in Hospitalized Patients
Background: Clinical safety is a crucial component of healthcare quality, focused on identifying and avoiding the risks to which patients are exposed. Among the adverse events that occur in a hospital environment, falls have a large impact (1.9&ndash
Physiotherapy Students’ Experiences about Ethical Situations Encountered in Clinical Practices
(1) Background: It is important to explore the ethical situations that physiotherapy students encountered in their clinical practices. (2) Methods: Qualitative, explorative, descriptive study. The participants included third-year physiotherapy students. They had to write five narratives about ethical situations encountered in their clinical practices. Krippendorff's method for qualitative content analysis was used to cluster units within the data to identify emergent themes. The study protocol was approved by the authors' University Ethic Committee of Human Research (H1515588244257). (3) Result: 280 narratives were reported by 64 students (23.34 ± 4.20 years, 59% women). Eight categories we…
Health Inequities in LGBT People and Nursing Interventions to Reduce Them: A Systematic Review.
Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people present poorer mental and physical health results compared to the heterosexual and cisgender population. There are barriers in the healthcare system that increase these health inequities. Objective: To synthesise the available evidence on how nurses can intervene in reducing health inequities in LGBT people, identifying their specific health needs and describing their experiences and perceptions of the barriers they face in the healthcare system. Methods: Systematic review. Between March and April 2021, a bibliographic search was carried out in the Cuiden, LILACS, PubMed, Dialnet, SciELO, Trip Database, and Web of Science dat…
La formación de especialistas en Enfermería Familiar y Comunitaria según las responsables de las unidades docentes
Objetivo: Analizar la situación actual de la formación de especialistas en Enfermería Familiar y Comunitaria desde la perspectiva de las enfermeras responsables de las unidades docentes. Métodos: Análisis exploratorio mediante técnica de grupo nominal de las aportaciones realizadas por representantes de 19 unidades docentes multiprofesionales de atención familiar y comunitaria de 11 comunidades autónomas. Se categorizan y ponderan dichas aportaciones. Resultados: Las categorías emergentes sobre las dificultades y fortalezas encontradas han estado en relación con las tutoras, al entorno donde se realiza la formación, con la propia estructura de la unidad docente, con la organización de la do…
Results of nurse case management in primary heath care: Bibliographic review
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Development of a short questionnaire based on the Practice Environment Scale-Nursing Work Index in primary health care
BackgroundProfessional nursing environments determine the quality of care and patient outcomes. Assessing the quality of environments is essential to improve and obtain better health outcomes. Simplifying and shortening the way to evaluate environments reliably is also important to help nurses better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their environments. In that sense, identifying essential elements of nursing environments would allow the construction of short assessment tools to improve such environments.ObjectiveTo construct a short tool to assess primary health care (PHC) nursing environments based on the Practice Environment Scale-Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) questionnaire.Metho…
Evaluation of the video-simulation as a teaching methodology for the motivational interview in nursing students
espanolIntroduccion: La Video-Simulacion como herramienta pedagogica ha sido escasamente utilizada. Pretendemos evaluar la utilidad y la satisfaccion con la metodologia utilizada en el aprendizaje de entrevista motivacionales mediante VS. Metodologia: Estudio observacional descriptivo transversal (2015) con estudiantes de enfermeria de 4.o curso de la Escuela de Enfermeria La Fe (Valencia, Espana). Se diseno un cuestionario Likert de 12 items. Se midieron las puntuaciones obtenidas, la fiabilidad, y se realizo un analisis factorial. Resultados: La edad media fue 23,6±4,5 anos. Alfa de Cronbach de 0,91. El analisis factorial identifico dos dimensiones que explican el 32,4% y el 32,1% de la v…
The training of specialists in Family and Community Health Nursing according to the supervisors of the teaching units
Abstract Objective To analyse the current situation of the training of specialists in family and community nursing from the perspective of nurses responsible for teaching units. Methods Exploratory analysis using nominal group technique of the contributions made by representatives of 19 multidisciplinary teaching units in family and community care from 11 Spanish autonomous communities. They categorised and weighted those contributions. Results The emerging categories on the strengths and difficulties encountered related to the tutors, the environment where the training took place, the structure of the teaching unit, the organisation of the teaching and the official programme of the special…