Daniela Mecugni

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia | UNIMO · Department of Surgery, Medicine and Dentistry

Aims To describe how workplace violence (WPV) is experienced by nurses in hospitals and community services and identify protective and risk factors. Methods An online cross‐sectional national study was conducted from January to April 2021 in Italy. Hospitals and community services were involved in the study. The survey combined the adapted and val...

Higher education is key to developing a competent and engaged society. Therefore, holistic learning is a fundamental element. This study aimed to test the validity and reliability of a questionnaire for extracurricular teaching actions in higher education. The questionnaire was delivered online to nursing and teaching students participating in the...

Immunization is a highly cost effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students’ knowledge...

Background: Vaccination is one of the most successful and cost-effective interventions for public health. Studies have shown that health professionals who have good knowledge and positive attitudes towards vaccination are more likely to provide effective vaccination protection to people, including themselves. Therefore, health science students must...

Nurse educators are tasked with the education of students to become providers of holistic care, and part of that care includes sexuality. Students carry attitudes and beliefs that influence their behavior; therefore, students who carry negative attitudes about sexual healthcare are less likely to provide that care. This is an international, multice...

Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Other. Main funding source(s): The National Federation of Orders for Nursing Professions (FNOPI - Italia) Background Workplace violence (WPV) impacts negatively both healthcare workers and healthcare organizations. Nurses are the most exposed healthcare workers to vertical WPV, also during the COVI...

Background Sexuality is an issue inherent in the lives of all human beings. Education for Sexuality takes place informally, through relationships with the environment, with the family as a model, and formally, as a pedagogical practice in Teaching. Education for sexuality is recognized as an instrument of social transformation that leads to changes...

INTRODUCTION: Existing literature reveals that in multicultural healthcare, nursing cultural competence is crucial. The related problem is how to evaluate it, considering that all the available scales are self-administrated. METHODS: The objective of this study is to establish the complete psychometric properties of the Nursing Cultural Competence...

Background: Nurses dealing with a patient's sexuality must start from an awareness of their own experience, specific attitudes, and possible limits. What emerges from the literature is a conservative tendency in nurses, which underlines the difficulty in this awareness, but even a difficulty in improving the necessary knowledge/skills. It is, ther...

Background and aims: The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected young people. The present study aims to explore the effects of COVID-19 on lifestyle in 500 undergraduate students both during the acute phase of the pandemic (so-called "first wave") and during the second spread of infections (so-called "second wave"). Gender differences were also...

Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective, preventive health care innovation worldwide. Healthcare professionals must have a proficient level of knowledge regarding vaccination and be qualified to administer high quality care. In the last twenty years, clinical simulation as a teaching methodology in the health sciences has been progressively i...

Nursing school graduates must be prepared to interact comfortably and effectively with patients about their sexual health. This study analyses the attitudes and beliefs about patient sexuality held by Portuguese and American nursing students. Objective: In Portuguese and American nursing students, (1) we analyzed students' attitudes and beliefs t...

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. Methods: A multic...

Different authors presented positive yoga effects on a psychophysiological level, decreasing the stress level in students. Stress can affect global students' well-being; for this reason, it should be considered as a core curriculum outcome. Various yoga practices are also beneficial in enhancing performances and getting psychological and physical b...

When assessing the fragility that characterizes the health of an immigrant person, a culturally competent transformation of the nurse–patient teaching-learning process is necessary. Therefore, it is considered essential to incorporate cultural competence and intercultural communication in higher nursing education. Objective To determine the conten...

Introduction: Hospitalisation represents a significant risk factor for the decline in the general conditions of the elderly. Loss of autonomy in elderly inpatients, together with immobilisation, has been defined as 'Hospital-Acquired Disability' and affects 65% of this class of patients. Less than half of them will regain independent mobilisation....

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 clini...

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 implement...

Sexuality is an important issue in the university careers of nursing students to ensure that they provide comprehensive care. It is necessary according to the recommendation of the World Health Organization. However, research reveals deficiencies and the need for further development. The aim of the study is to describe the perspective of teachers a...

Near-decisions undertaken by clinical nurses in their daily practice: a concept analysis Riassunto. Negli ultimi anni si è assistito allo sviluppo dell'autonomia infermieristica; oggi gli infermieri assumono decisioni autonome e decisioni collaborative. Tuttavia nella pratica quotidiana sorvegliando le condizioni del paziente, gli infermieri interc...

Experiencing the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, high vaccination coverage by a safe and effective vaccine globally would be a great achievement. Acceptance of vaccination by healthcare students is an important issue as they have a key role as future professionals in educating patients, informing and guiding them to the right clinical decision. T...

The Evidence-Based Practice can be defined as the integration of the best available research evidence with information related to patient preferences, the level of competence of clinicians, and the resources available to make decisions related to patient care. Skills in using computers and interrogating electronic resources are among one the most i...

The patient safety is considered a strategic and ethical objective of health, also one of the factors that determine the care quality. To ensure the patient safety, the prevention and the reduction of medication errors is a crucial aspect. Therapy errors are identified as the most frequent committed in the healthcare context. Nurses plays an extrem...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an instrument of great utility in making clinical decisions in nursing care, improving the quality of nursing care and patients’ health outcomes. There is no European framework for EBP competency, and no guidelines for EBP teaching. The general concept of the project ‘Providing a Teaching and Learning Open and Innov...

Once upon a time, an international student started a 3-day work shadowing in a community setting. At the end of the first day, the community supervisor refused to work with the student stating that the student was uninterested, because she didn´t ask any questions! The student was shocked and said that she was really interested. She thought it was...

Background: 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. Aim: The aim of this study was to gather, assess and synthesize evidence on educational inter...

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, mast...

The EDUVAC project aims to develop and implement a web-based course on educating vaccination competence among health sciences students. In the current study students' feedback and evaluation is assessed which guided the partners' efforts to improve the final course content and learning material that will be available for open access. After completi...

Gradellini C, Cavani D, Ferri P, Righini G, Mecugni D, Sakellari E. Eduvac: Educare alla competenza vaccinale. Un progetto europeo per gli studenti delle lauree sanitarie. (https://www.infermiereonline.org/2020/05/24/eduvac-educare-alla-competenza-vaccinale/).

The peripheral nerve injuries, representing some of the most common types of traumatic lesions affecting the nervous system, are highly invalidating for the patients besides being a huge social burden. Although peripheral nervous system owns a higher regenerative capacity than does central nervous system, mostly depending on Schwann cells intervent...

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 pa...

Objectives: To evaluate the regenerative potential of human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs) in an animal model of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). SUI, an involuntary leakage of urine, is due to physical stress involving an increase in bladder pressure and a damage of external urethral sphincter affecting muscles and nerves. Conventional therapi...

Vaccinating is one of the most cost-effective preventive health care innovations. It requires special education and vaccination professionals (public health nursing, nurses, health visitors, midwives, etc.) should be competent and qualified professionals to provide high quality care and it should be safe and cost-effective. Five EU HEIs partners sh...

Vaccinating is one of the most cost-effective preventive health care innovations. It requires special education and vaccination professionals should be competent and qualified to provide high quality care and it should be safe and cost-effective [1,2]. Five EU HEIs partners sharing the same goals and needs in vaccination education among their stude...

Background: Vaccinating is globaly one of the most cost-effective preventive health care innovations. It requires special education and vaccination professionals (public health, nurses, health visitors, midwives, etc.) should be competent and qualified professionals to provide high quality care and it should be safe and cost-effective. Aims: Impr...

Nursing students at the end of their studies are supposed to own skills that allow them, in a short time, to act effectively and safely. Therefore, it is of primary importance that during the training period they have the opportunity, under protected conditions, to practice the management of scenarios realistically representative of the clinical se...

The path to define and implement standard plans about hysterectomy and intervention for ovary cancer, started from the definition of a format and from the nurses’ training. A partial experimentation of the plan’s utilization, the literally review on clinical questions and the charts’ audit bring to the definition of an integrated standard plan. Obj...

E' stata condotta un'analisi osservazionale relativamente a malnutrizione e disidratazione, dei bambini da 0 a 5 anni. Per ogni bambino si sono valutati: condizioni generali, percentile, disidratazione con scala (Gorelick, 1997), alimentazione.

Background: There is evidence that early integration of palliative care improves quality of life, lowers spending and helps clarify preferences and goals for advanced cancer patients. Little is known about the feasibility and acceptability of early integration. Aim: Assessing feasibility of early integration of palliative care, and exploring con...

The therapeutic patient education (TPE) it has to have a patient-centered approach, that considers the patients’ needs, resources, values and strategies. This approach make the patient to improve his/her own knowledge and skills, and it arrive to guarantee a better quality of life, and a better compliance. The most difficulties emerge when patients...

Objective: To evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Scheda di Valutazione delle Attività di Tirocinio (SVAT). Method: The degree courses in Nursing of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, site of Reggio Emilia, the University of Bologna Formative Section BO1, Imola and training center of Cesena, the University of Ferrara traini...

L’evoluzione delle complessità, nella comprensione del mondo e dell’uomo che lo abita, sottolinea la necessità di un dialogo multidisciplinare, a partire dai contesti di formazione (Morin, 2012). L’unica certezza è di in-certezza: tale elemento destabilizza tutti gli ambiti della conoscenza, richiedendo un approccio multidisciplinare per l’apertura...

Background: When modelling the nursing workforce, estimations of the numbers and characteristics of new graduates over the forecast period are assumed on the basis of previous generations; however, new graduates may have different plans for their future than those documented previously in different socio-economical contexts. Aims: To explore (a)...

In recent years, nursing autonomy has increased: clinical nurses in their daily practice undertake several independent and collaborative decisions. In addition, during nursing surveillance, clinical nurses collect data, intercept signs and/or symptoms of decline, early detect emerging problems and trigger a decision-making process by identifying in...

BACKGROUND: the International economic crisis has challenged the sustainability of health care systems imposing reforms aimed to reduce costs and increase production efficiency. At the international level, waste reduction is considered to be the basis to ensure the heath care systems sustainability. To reduce waste and increase production efficienc...

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...

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 E...

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 c...

Many faculty argue that theory and theorizing are closely related to the clinical practice, that the disciplinary knowledge grows, more relevantly, from the specific care context in which it takes place and, moreover, that knowledge does not proceed only by the application of general principles of the grand theories to specific cases. Every nurse,...

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

PURPOSE. The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation strategies of measurement instruments and their validity as adopted in Italian hospital nursing practice. METHOD. A descriptive, regionally based study was adopted in 2008. Eight public hospitals were included. After collecting the available instruments used by nurses and/or pati...

Nowadays, an important goal has been reached in recognizing that the client plays a central role in the caring process. The educational relationship that is created between nurses and patients makes it possible to make the patient aware of his health problems and to understand and actively participate in the caring process. The main aim of this stu...

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 deg...

Professional risk and security in the health sector is becoming ever more important : the number of accidents in hospital environments during 2005 was 19,000 and nurses were the most frequently involved category. This study deals with clinical risk perception . A questionnaire was issued to 259 student and 100 professional nurses at the Modena and...

Latent tubercolar infection in irregular non EU-citizens in Italy is an important issue of public health. Aim of this paper is to describe the effects of a new organization of the Centre for the health of foreign families of Reggio Emilia. A dedicated nurse, responsible of patients' screening and follow-up, in strict collaboration with a cultural i...