Patient safety competencies in undergraduate nursing students: a rapid evidence assessment

Aims To identify patient safety competencies, and determine the clinical learning environments that facilitate the development of patient safety competencies in nursing students. Background Patient safety in nursing education is of key importance for health professional environments, settings, and care systems. To be effective, safe nursing practice requires a good integration between increasing knowledge and the different clinical practice settings. Nurse educators have the responsibility to develop effective learning processes and ensure patient safety. Design Rapid Evidence Assessment. Data Sources MEDLINE, CINAHL, SCOPUS, and ERIC were searched, yielding 500 citations published between 1 January 2004 - 30 September 2014. Review Methods Following the Rapid Evidence Assessment process, 17 studies were included in this review. Hawker's (2002) quality assessment tool was used to assess the quality of the selected studies. Results Undergraduate nursing students need to develop competencies to ensure patient safety. The quality of the pedagogical atmosphere in the clinical setting has an important impact on the students’ overall level of competence. Active student engagement in clinical processes stimulates their critical reasoning, improves interpersonal communication, and facilitates adequate supervision and feedback. Conclusion Few studies describe the nursing students’ patient safety competencies and exactly what they need to learn. In addition, studies describe only briefly which clinical learning environments facilitate the development of patient safety competencies in nursing students. Further research is needed to identify additional pedagogical strategies and the specific characteristics of the clinical learning environments that encourage the development of nursing students’ patient safety competencies

NURSES\u2019 INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE CANCER PATIENT ENGAGEMENT AND RELATED OUTCOMES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS PROTOCOL

Background and aim of the work. Due to the ageing of cancer patients, new approaches that require a more active participation in the self-management of cancer treatment at home are needed. Nurses are strategic in improving the patient\u2019s engagement capability in this regard. Knowing which interventions are more effective for the promotion of patient engagement could be useful to improve the effectiveness of the care provided. Therefore, this study aims to systematically review nursing interventions or programs that promote patient engagement in oncological nursing care and summarizing the main evidence related to their impact on relevant clinical and psychosocial outcomes. Method. This is a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol based on Cochrane Handbook for the systematic review of interventions. We will search the most important electronic databases (PUBMED, CINAHL, EMBASE, SCOPUS, ISI Web of Science, Cochrane library) to find out which patient engagement interventions (active adult patient involvement) are implemented in oncological settings and understand what is the effectiveness of these interventions on the outcomes reported in the literature. The GRADE methodology will be used to synthetize the evidence. If possible, also a meta-analysis will be performed. We registered the study protocol on the PROSPERO database (N\ub0 CRD42020146189). Discussion and Conclusion. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review to address this clinical question in the field of oncology. This review will offer health professionals indications on the most frequently adopted patient engagement interventions and verify their clinical effectiveness. Furthermore, any gaps in the scientific literature will be highlighted

The psychosocial impact of flu influenza pandemics on healthcare workers and lessons learnt for the COVID-19 emergency: a rapid review

Objectives: during a pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) are essential to the health system response. Based on our knowledge, little information is available regarding the psychosocial impact on HCWs or interventions for supporting them during pandemics. Therefore, the study aimed to assess available literature on perceived stress and psychological responses to influenza pandemics in HCWs and identify implications for healthcare practice and future research. Methods: this is a rapid review of the literature. The review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Results: across all the studies both qualitative and quantitative HCWs working during the epidemic reported frequent concerns regarding their own health and the fear of infecting their families, friends and colleagues. Moreover, social isolation, uncertainty, fears of stigmatization and reluctance to work or considering absenteeism were frequently reported. Moreover, many studies highlighted a high prevalence of high levels of stress, anxiety and depression symptoms, which could have long-term psychological implications in HCWs. Conclusions: this rapid review offers an overview of the major concerns regarding HCWs' psychosocial well-being and possible preventive strategies, which could be useful for the current COVID-19 outbreak and similar future pandemics. Studies suggested to invest on preventive psychological, social, family and physical support and to guaranteeing reasonable work conditions and others in order to protect HCWs from the long-lasting psychological effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronic supplementary material: the online version of this article (10.1007/s00038-020-01463-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users

Burnout precursors in oncology nurses: A preliminary cross-sectional study with a systemic organizational analysis

Burnout negatively affects nurses' health and performance. Healthcare managers have an ethical duty to create healthy organizations that reduce burnout, especially within critical settings such as oncology. The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to measure the presence of nurses' burnout to formulate organizational strategies to prevent the syndrome onset, and (2) to evaluate the effect of recent organizational changes on the burnout phenomenon. A descriptive, cross-sectional design supported by a systemic organizational analysis was conducted in a Swiss Oncology Institute in 2013. Of 103 nurses working in the Institute, 52 (51.4%) completed the Burnout Potential Inventory (BPI) questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Burnout risk levels were low to moderate. Only 2 nurses out of the 52 showed moderate burnout risk levels. Inpatient nurses showed a higher risk of burnout than outpatient nurses, particularly due to ambiguity and feelings of powerlessness. Nurses with post-basic education showed a higher risk when considering poor teamwork values and ambiguity in the workplace. Poor middle-management was found to negatively influence worker wellbeing. The working environment set by management resulted in low burnout risk levels. Managers must carefully select middle-management because inappropriate leadership might promote the onset of burnout

Living organisms and sedimentary remains from high mountain lakes in the Alps

We publish a data set of environmental and biological data collected in 2000 during the ice-free period in high mountain lakes located above the local timberline in the Alps, in Italy, Switzerland and Austria. Environmental data include coordinates, geographical attributes and detailed information on vegetation, bedrock and land use in lake catchments. Chemical analyses of a sample for each lake collected at the lake surface in Summer 2000 are also reported. Biological data include phytoplankton (floating algae and cyanobacteria), zooplankton (floating animals), macroinvertebrates (aquatic organisms visible to the naked eye living in contact with sediments on lake bottom), benthic diatoms. Diatoms, cladocera and chironomids remains and algal and bacterial pigments were also analysed in lake sediments

La concettualizzazione dell'assistenza infermieristica nella letteratura italiana: un'analisi integrativa a supporto dello sviluppo di una teoria

Introduction: Nursing theories are essential for orienting nursing practice. To date, three models for nursing practice have been developed in Italy. In addition, significant epistemological reflections have been published, sparking a rich professional debate regarding the theoretical foundations of nursing in Italy. However, conceptual models from other countries are often still used, despite many difficulties associated with applying them in practice. In order to investigate and redress this ‘theoretical gap’ and related implications for intervention, three scoping reviews of the Italian nursing literature were conducted to examine three categories of nursing knowledge: (a) nursing practice in Italy; (b) the basic nursing concepts of person, health, environment and nursing; and (c) regulatory/normative statements regarding what nursing practice should be in Italy. Objective: The purpose of this investigation was to identify how nursing is conceptualized in the Italian literature through an integrative narrative analysis of three scoping reviews. Methods: The Scoping Review according to the recommendations published by Arksey and O'Malley and subsequently implemented by Levac et al. has been selected as the optimal methodology for mapping nursing knowledge. At the end of the reviews carried out to answer the three research questions, the researchers integrated the results by conducting a coding of the results. Results: The narrative synthesis highlighted a systemic conception of persons in their social context, ‘incorporated’ within relational systems. Persons are imagined as active agents with self-determination toward promoting their own health. Health, derived from levels of equilibrium between multiple systemic components and based on the person's holistic view, is a fundamental right and a collective social interest. Maintaining or promoting a person’s health requires careful consideration of all these constitutive and integral elements. The nursing process is implemented through technical acts as well as relational and caring skills. Professional autonomy, influenced by clinical and organizational contexts, is expressed in collaboration with other professionals who contribute to the healthcare process. The results of this integrative narrative analysis suggest the need for a holistic vision of persons, with an active role in their health management, indissociable from the system of relationships in which this is contextualized, within which nurses are embedded. Conclusion: In light of the results of our investigation, the promotion of a conceptualization of nursing based on the centrality of the person-social relational system and on the active role of persons that nurses work with, this could guide approaches used in nursing education and administration. This could help enhance care provided by nurses and persons' participation in decisions regarding their own health. Keywords: nursing theory, nursing discipline, review, metaparadigm Introduzione: Le teorie infermieristiche costituiscono un riferimento imprescindibile per la prassi infermieristica. In Italia sono stati elaborati e proposti tre modelli professionali italiani. Oltre ad essi, il dibattito professionale si è arricchito anche di significative riflessioni di tipo epistemologico. Tuttavia, ancora oggi risultano essere spesso adottati modelli concettuali provenienti da altri Paesi con la difficoltà del loro utilizzo nella prassi infermieristica. Allo scopo di studiare e approfondire “questo divario teorico” e le possibili linee di intervento sono state realizzate tre revisioni della produzione scientifica infermieristica italiana su tre categorie di conoscenze infermieristiche: la pratica infermieristica in Italia, i concetti fondanti di persona, salute, ambiente e assistenza e tutte le dichiarazioni normative riguardo a cosa dovrebbe essere in Italia la pratica infermieristica. Obiettivo: Lo scopo di questo studio è la produzione di una sintesi narrativa che identifica la concezione di infermieristica nella letteratura italiana attraverso un’analisi integrativa di scoping reviews. Metodi: La Scoping Review secondo le raccomandazioni pubblicate da Arksey and O’Malley e successivamente implementate da Levac et al. è stata selezionata come la metodologia ottimale per eseguire la mappatura delle conoscenze infermieristiche. Al termine delle revisioni realizzate per rispondere alle tre domande di ricerca, i ricercatori hanno integrato i risultati conducendo una codifica dei risultati. Risultati: La sintesi narrativa ha evidenziato una concezione sistemica di base riguardante le persone nel loro contesto sociale, “incorporate” nei sistemi di relazioni. La persona è identificata come agente attivo nell'autoderminazione della salute. La salute derivante da livelli di equilibrio tra più componenti sistemiche e basata sulla visione olistica della persona è un bene fondamentale e un interesse sociale collettivo. Mantenere o promuovere la salute della persona richiede un'attenta considerazione di tutti quelli elementi che ne sono parte costituiva e integrante. La processualità dell'assistenza è messa in atto attraverso atti di natura tecnica e attraverso competenze relazionali e di caring. L'autonomia professionale, influenzata dai contesti clinici e organizzativi si esprime anche nella collaborazione con gli altri professionisti che contribuiscono alla realizzazione del processo di cura. I risultati di questa analisi integrativa suggeriscono la necessità di una visione olistica della persona, del suo ruolo attivo nella gestione della salute e della sua inscindibilità dal sistema di relazioni in cui questa è contestualizzata e del quale l’infermiere entra a far parte. Conclusione: Alla luce dei risultati del nostro studio, la promozione di una concezione di assistenza infermieristica basata sulla centralità dell’intero sistema persona-relazioni sociali e sul ruolo attivo della persona assistita potrebbero orientare sia i processi formativi sia le amministrazioni infermieristiche così da consentire e valorizzare la presa in carico globale da parte dei professionisti infermieri e la partecipazione della persona alla presa di decisioni riguardanti la propria salute

Developing an instrument to measure emotional behaviour abilities of meaningful learning through the Delphi technique

Aim: To identify items for a new instrument that measures emotional behaviour abilities of meaningful learning, according to Fink's Taxonomy. Background: Meaningful learning is an active process that promotes a wider and deeper understanding of concepts. It is the result of an interaction between new and previous knowledge and produces a long-term change of knowledge and skills. To measure meaningful learning capability, it is very important in the education of health professionals to identify problems or special learning needs. For this reason, it is necessary to create valid instruments. Design: A Delphi Study technique was implemented in four phases by means of e-mail. Methods: The study was conducted from April\ue2\u80\u93September 2015. An expert panel consisting of ten researchers with experience in Fink's Taxonomy was established to identify the items of the instrument. Data were analysed for conceptual description and item characteristics and attributes were rated. Expert consensus was sought in each of these phases. An 87\uc2\ub75% consensus cut-off was established. Results: After four rounds, consensus was obtained for validation of the content of the instrument \ue2\u80\u98Assessment of Meaningful learning Behavioural and Emotional Abilities\ue2\u80\u99. This instrument consists of 56 items evaluated on a 6-point Likert-type scale. Foundational Knowledge, Application, Integration, Human Dimension, Caring and Learning How to Learn were the six major categories explored. Conclusions: This content validated tool can help educators (teachers, trainers and tutors) to identify and improve the strategies to support students\ue2\u80\u99 learning capability, which could increase their awareness of and/or responsibility in the learning process