Laura Iacorossi

Link Campus University 00165 Rome · Department of Life-Health and Health Professions Sciences

Background: Transformational leadership fosters trusting relationships; new visions; and personal, professional, and cultural growth. Effective leaders support their team’s motivational growth and organizational goals. This study aims to underscore the importance of transformational leadership and its various dimensions, focusing on its impact on j...

Background: Communication is an important aspect in making patients competent to define, process, and manage their disease condition as well as to intercept and satisfy psychosocial needs. Communication between patient and nurse is central in the learning and orientating process since the nurse has the greatest frequency and continuity of relations...

Background: Telenursing comprises a set of tools and interventions enabling nurses to provide remote care. This study aims to assess the impact of telenursing interventions on the supportive care needs of patients with melanoma and lung cancer who are receiving targeted therapies. Methods: This six-month monocentric, double-arm, randomised, control...

Introduction: Telenursing is a new nursing approach to improve continuity, quality and safety of care and patient outcomes. This study aims to describe the viewpoint of Italian nurses on their knowledge, attitudes, and barriers to telenursing.Materials and methods: This descriptive study following the STROBE guidelines was conducted in August 2022...

Background: Telenursing could improve continuity of care in patients with cancer. This study aims to explore the expectations and perceptions of patients with lung cancer and melanoma toward telenursing. Methods: A descriptive qualitative study using a phenomenological approach was conducted on a convenience sampling of twenty patients aged 18 year...

Background: Virtual reality (VR) emerges as a promising non-pharmacological intervention for managing symptoms and providing distraction during chemotherapy. This study aims to assess VR’s effectiveness on cancer-related symptoms, vital signs, and the patients’ perception of chemotherapy in lung cancer patients. Methods: A quasi-experimental study...

Background: Virtual Reality (VR) emerges as a promising non-pharmacological intervention for managing symptoms and providing distraction during chemotherapy. This study aims to assess VR's effectiveness on cancer-related symptoms, vital signs, and patients' perception of the chemotherapy in lung cancer patients. Methods: A quasi-experimental study...

Objectives This study aims to investigate hospital nurses' perceptions of illness due to environmental exposures. Design A qualitative exploratory study, designed in accordance with the specified reporting guidelines for qualitative research. Sample Nurses working in Italian hospitals. Methods Semi‐structured interviews were used to collect data...

Background Nursing care dependency is a key, yet under‐studied, nursing phenomenon. Patients in intensive care units are highly dependent on nursing care. Patients find dependency challenging, experiencing feelings of powerlessness and shame. The nurse–patient care relationship can influence patients' perception of dependency. Understanding how nur...

These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: Nursing research is rapidly increasing, yet contributions from numerous countries that may interest the international nursing community are impeded because many research articles are published in authors' native language and not in English. The objectives of this work were to systematically...

For decades, scholars have studied leader–member exchange (LMX) relationships to understand and explain the effects of leadership on follower attitudes and performance outcomes within work settings. One available instrument to measure these aspects is the LMX-7 scale. This measurement has been widely used in empirical studies, but its psychometric...

Background: to assess, using the Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scales (NSNS) questionnaire, the degree of patient satisfaction with healthcare services, in patients who were admitted to three obstetrics and gynaecology wards in three different Italian public hospitals. The aim of the study was to understand the correlations between basic orga...

Background and Purpose: Clinical reasoning for nurses is considered a valuable component of clinical nursing competencies, but there are few tools to ascertain this. This study tested the Italian Nurses Clinical Reasoning Scale (I-NCRS) psychometric properties based on Levett-Jones’ theoretical clinical reasoning model. Methods: Content, face, and...

Background The application of non-invasive pelvic circumferential compression devices (PCCDs), including pelvic binders, has shown to improve the position and stability of some types of pelvic fractures. To date the clinical efficacy of PCCDs application is still scarce and of poor quality. We assessed the clinical efficacy of pelvic binder pre-hos...

Aims and objectives: To summarise the evidence published to date regarding nursing core competence in stoma care of any type of ostomy throughout the patient's ostomy surgery candidate care pathway from preoperative to follow-up. Background: Nurses should play a key role in all ostomy patient care pathways to help them to adapt to the new physic...

Background: The oncology setting is characterized by various complexities, and healthcare professionals may experience stressful conditions associated with ethical decisions during daily clinical practice. Moral distress (MD) is a condition of distress that is generated when an individual would like to take action in line with their ethical belief...

BACKGROUND: Distance learning is considered an alternative method of teaching and learning on bachelor courses in nursing when the face-to-face approach is not possible, as during Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdown strategy forced all universities to suddenly replace live activities, with a deep impact on students’ lives and experiences. PURPOSE: The aim...

Objective: To examine caregivers' experiences and training needs after radical cystectomy with urinary diversion for the first three months following the patient's discharge. Methods: This study applied a phenomenological design approach through open-ended interviews and descriptive analysis. Phenomenology applied to empirical research requires r...

The incidence rate of prostate cancer (PCa) in many Western countries is high, contributing greatly to the cancer disease bur-den. In most cases, patients progress to metastatic disease defined as castration-resistant prostate cancer after androgen deprivation (mCRPC) following primary treatment where the majority of patients receive first-line new...

Aims and objectives: To explore the lived experience of women who gave birth during the Covid-19 pandemic. Background: Experiencing pregnancy during the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbates the risk of the onset of psychological problems. Design: A descriptive, single-center, qualitative study METHODS: The enrollment for data collection included chil...

Introduction: Chronic pain is a distressing condition that should be treated in specialized pain clinics. Pain clinics offer a holistic, evidence based approach, including pharmacological , complementary, and invasive treatments. This study aimed to provide preliminary information regarding chronic pain treatments and identify reasons for accessing...

Purpose: To develop an Italian tool that measures the therapy adherence of women with breast cancer undergoing treatment with oral endocrine therapy. Methods: A two-phase study was conducted, which followed the guidelines of the European Statistical System for the development and validation of a questionnaire. In the first phase, the questionnai...

Aim: To investigate whether and how ten ethical principles are mentioned within documents on critical care resources allocation during public health emergencies. Materials and methods: We conducted a search of documents con-cerning critical resources allocation during public emergencies publicly available from Google and two specific internation...

Background Guideline adaptation provides an important alternative to de novo guideline development by making the process more efficient and reducing unnecessary duplication. The quality evaluation of international guidelines is an essential part of the adaptation process. The study aims at describing the development and validation of a new tool to...

Introduction: Pain is the most common and distressing medical symptom in hospitalized patients in all wards. Pain prevalence among hospitalized patients is an indicator of the quality of health care. Objective: The aim of this study is to describe pain prevalence in two Italian hospitals. Material and method: This is an observational study. It...

Background: Early detection of critical bleeding by accurate tools can help ensure rapid delivery of blood products to improve outcomes in major trauma patients. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the accuracy of risk tools to predict critical bleeding in patients with major trauma. Methods: PubMed, Embase and CENTRAL were searched up...

Trauma is one of the leading causes of uncontrolled haemorrhage, death, and disability. Use of a tourniquet can be considered an optimal anti-haemorrhagic resource, in pre-hospital and emergency settings, and its lifesaving effect is clinically contradictory. This review aims to assess the clinical efficacy of the tourniquet in the emergency pre-ho...

Purpose Inpatients with cancer are likely to experience care dependency and would benefit from nurses' evaluation of such dependency. The Care Dependency Scale (CDS) is a 15-item instrument widely used to assess patients’ dependency in different populations and settings. This study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the proxy Italian vers...

Background: Major trauma describes serious injuries requiring lifesaving interventions or resulting in long-term disability; it represents about 8% of all deaths worldwide. Specific guidelines can help reduce deaths and disabilities, provided they adhere to high quality and trustworthiness standards. This article aims at introducing the developmen...

Background: Death is one of the basic theme with which nurses are faced, and for which it is hard for them to prepare deeply and sincerely. The difficulties in handling the emotional burden can cause them to develop negative feelings towards life and clinical practice, so that it affects their caregiving capacity and the quality of care provided....

Background Multiple studies regarding the use of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) in patients with non-compressible torso injuries and uncontrolled haemorrhagic shock were recently published. To date, the clinical evidence of the efficacy of REBOA is still debated. We aimed to conduct a systematic review assessing t...

Background We conducted a systematic review to evaluate and compare the accuracy of pre-hospital triage tools for major trauma in the context of the development of the Italian National Institute of Health guidelines on major trauma integrated management. Methods PubMed, Embase, and CENTRAL were searched up to November 2019 for studies investigatin...

Objective This multicentre study aimed to develop a measure of the perception of care dependence in patients diagnosed with cancer and to test its psychometric properties. Methods The questionnaire was developed based on findings emerged from a meta‐synthesis and from qualitative studies conducted in three hospitals in Italy. The draft questionnai...

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease considered a leading cause of functional disability. Its treatment is based on a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, but the role of these latter is still debated. This overview of systematic reviews aimed at evaluating the short-term efficacy of different thermal modalities...

Chronic non-cancer pain is a complex health condition that affects more than a quarter of the Italian population who mainly refers to general practitioners and primary care for their treatment. There are little information on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics and types of treatments for these patients who suffer from chronic pain. Th...

In an attempt to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries have implemented various social restrictions, such as closing schools and asking people to work from home. Nevertheless, after months of strict quarantine, a reopening of society is required. Many countries are planning exit strategies to progressively lift the lockdown without leading...

Background: Evidence is needed on the effectiveness of wearing face masks in the community to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Methods: Systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of face mask use in a community setting and to predict the effectiveness of wearing a mask. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCISEARCH,...

Clinical or care pathways are developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare practitioners, based on clinical evidence, and standardized processes. The evaluation of their framework/content quality is unclear. The aim of this study was to describe which tools and domains are able to critically evaluate the quality of clinical/care pathways. An...

Background and aim of the work: Triage during the Covid-19 pandemic can impose difficult allocation decisions when demand for mechanical ventilation or intensive care beds greatly exceeds available resources. Triage criteria should be objective, ethical, transparent, applied equitably and publically disclosed. The aim of this review is to describe...

Objective: The main objectives of this review are to summarise the existing literature and to identify strategies for exiting lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on reopening schools and returning to work. Introduction: After months of strict quarantine, several countries are planning exit strategies to progressively lift social res...

Purpose Patients with advanced cancer are likely to face increasing levels of care dependence. Adult patients who become care dependent on others can experience this condition as one of suffering and humiliation. The nurse-patient relationship plays a key role in the experience of dependence. Understanding patients’ and nurses’ perceptions of care...

Background: Evidence is needed on the effectiveness of wearing face masks in the community to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Methods: Systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of face mask use in a community setting and to predict the effectiveness of wearing a mask. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCISEARCH,...

In oncology, adherence to oral antineoplastic medication is a key element of treatment, on which the success of any therapeutic intervention depends. Given their widespread use in clinical practice, it is important to identify tools that can facilitate the monitoring and self-management of the patient at home, to avoid the consequences of employing...

Protecting Health Care Workers (HCWs) during routine care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients is of paramount importance to halt the SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2) pandemic. The WHO, ECDC and CDC have issued conflicting guidelines on the use of respiratory filters (N95) by HCWs. We searched PubMed, Embase and T...

Background Protecting Health Care Workers (HCWs) during routine care of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients is of paramount importance to halt the SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2) pandemic. The WHO, ECDC and CDC have issued conflicting guidelines on the use of respiratory filters (N95) by HCWs. Methods We searched P...

Purpose: The importance of nursing competence arises from its central role in influencing and determining care outcomes. The employment of adequately educated staff, able to base clinical decisions on the best scientific evidence, is one of the components required for delivering high quality nursing care in the oncological field. The aim of this s...

Introduction: The clinical reasoning is a process in which nurses collect ideas, process information, they come to understand the problem or the patient's situation by planning and implementing interventions, evaluating the results. Study design: The aim of this study is to perform linguistic and cultural validation for the Italian context of th...

The introduction of new information technologies in healthcare led to major changes in the field of tools for managing and evaluating the assistance. In Italy, an example of applying new technologies to the healthcare context is the realization of Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico (FSE). The FSE is a tool that collects online data and health and soci...

The so-called Gelli-Bianco Law (L 24/2017) recognizes the central role of Guidelines as far as decision-making in the health sector is concerned and establishes the Italian National Guidelines System (SNLG) as a "safe harbor", notwithstanding the specificities of each real-world case. The Italian National Center for Clinical Excellence, Quality and...

Aims and objectives This study aimed at summarizing the evidence about patient‐related risk factors for difficult intravenous access (DIVA) in adults, and at identifying nurses’ beliefs and their consistency with evidence. Background Peripheral intravenous cannulation (PIVC) is a common procedure for nurses, but rates of failure at first attempt o...

Purpose: To explore adherence to oral hormone treatment in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mCRPC) and to identify the factors that influence it. Methods: A qualitative exploratory study was conducted at the National Cancer Institute of Rome. Patients aged >18 years with castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and who were using or...

Background: Upper extremity lymphedema is a complication that often occurs in women with breast cancer as a result of surgery and/or radiotherapy. Some studies report that a boating activity known as the "dragon boat" sport can benefit these women. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess whether this type of sport prevents or reduces lymphedema...

Introduction: The university educational sphere has many dilemmas. The question of sufficient knowledge and skills for students to acquire abilities to provide care in different clinical setting is one important dilemma. Aim: To measure the level of competencies by nursing students and its application in different clinical environments. Methods...

Background: Cancer patients often report symptoms related to therapeutic treatment, whose management is based on traditional medicine. In recent years, however, there has been growing interest towards adopting some form of complementary medicine, among these, Reiki. The aim of this study is to evaluate how this type of discipline can contribute to...

Aims and objectives: To explore the lived experiences of patients with hematological malignancies who had been in protective isolation during their hospital stay for autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Background: Although protective isolation aims to benefit patients' health by preventing infection, it could also imply h...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the world, and it is also the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. Nevertheless, breast cancer survival has increased as a result of improvements in early diagnosis and therapy, for example, oral endocrine therapy. Despite the importance of adherence to endocrine therapy, its t...

Introduction: The majority of patients with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer are treated with oral endocrine therapies, which are administered in periods ranging from 5 to 10 years. Adherence, ie the degree a subject's behavior corresponds to the agreed recommendations, then becomes a significant problem, which can also affect distress leve...

Background There is a deep need to improve the care of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients, since even today it remains an incurable disease. Taxanes are considered the most effective cytotoxic drugs for the treatment of MBC, both in monotherapy and in combined schedules, but the need for synthetic solvents contributes to the severe toxicities...

The adjuvant treatment with oral hormonal therapy improves clinical results of breast cancer, but women find difficulty in adhering to the 5-year-regime. The imperfect adherence to the therapeutic treatment has an impact on the clinical benefit; it can induce resistance to the treatment, disease pro-gression and also death. The percentages of adher...

Many factors contribute to the failure of an adjuvant therapy, perhaps one of the most important is the adhesion to the treatment. The topic of oral consumption of medicines generated a vast literature and considerable controversies. The complexity of the topic is based on the fact that terms such as compliance, adherence and concordance are common...

The aim of this prospective study was to assess the quality of pain management hospitalized cancer patients. In a quantitative and qualitative evaluation from six oncology centers in Italy, all consecutive cancer patients complaining of pain and hospitalized during the same 2 weeks were requested to fill in a McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ), a pres...