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Objectives: To explore nursing health education interventions for non-communicable disease patients.
Methods: The design was a systematic review of research work published between 2008 and 2018. The data sources included the Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, COCHRANE, and LILACS. The studies that met the inclusion were assessed, and the analysis for...
Nursing specialization is considered a significant professional requirement to meet the challenges and needs of the health systems under evolving epidemiological patterns and scientific, technological, and social advances. In Spain, experiences in the training of specialist nurses have followed the same pattern and have been consolidated through le...
Objective
To provide a synopsis of the occupational licensure literature and how scholarship contributions (i.e., research, reviews, book chapters, conference proceedings, editorials, and other) compare across the five largest contributory disciplines indexed in the Web of Science™ (WOS) bibliographic database.
Methods
Data were extracted in May 2...
Objetivo
Determinar la prevalencia de los diagnósticos enfermeros en pacientes adultos mayores hospitalizados con úlceras por presión e identificar los diagnósticos enfermeros reales, potenciales, de salud y síndrome por patrón funcional de salud.
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Estudio Transversal, descriptivo conformado por una muestra de pacientes adultos m...
Resumen: Introducción: Evaluar las competencias es una cuestión de importancia que ocupa un lugar primordial en el contexto de la educación superior. Para ello, es necesario disponer de instrumentos que reúnan criterios de validez y fiabilidad, y que puedan ser utilizados en escenarios de desempeño, capacidad y actuación profesional. Por esta razón...
There is increased interest in reforming the way occupations are licensed. However, most of the current dialogue focuses on the rapid growth in the number of people who need a license to pursue their chosen occupation. Consequently, significant questions are being raised as to the appropriateness of such requirements for groups that do not appear t...
Background: Competency assessment is an essential process in higher education and in continuous professional development, and needs to have reliable tools. Aim: To design and validate the content of an assessment tool for nursing competencies. Methods: Using expert consensus techniques and applying statistical criteria established the competency un...
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Nurses frequently work as part of both uni- and multidisciplinary teams. Communication between team members is critical in the delivery of quality care. Social network analysis is increasingly being used to explore such communication. AimTo explore the use of social network analysis involving nurses either as subjects of the study or as...
This article explores some issues that regulatory bodies will face in the coming 15 years by drawing attention to three global policy initiatives: Health Workforce 2030 from the Global Health Workforce Alliance; theTwelfth General Programme of Work from the World Health Organization; andThe Road to Dignity by 2030 from the United Nations.The author...
AimTo identify, compare and contrast the major component parts of heterogeneous stratified sample of nursing legislation.Background
Nursing legislation varies from one jurisdiction to another. Up until now no research exists into whether the variations of such legislation are random or if variations are related to a set of key attributes.Methods
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Nurse mobility, developments such as health tourism and the rapid expansion of health systems have increased the need for regulatory bodies to reach beyond their normal stakeholder groups so as to familiarize themselves with the legislation of other jurisdictions.
Purpose
A systematic examination of a cross-section of nursing legislation, to ascer...
This study explores whether the seven component concepts of the open systems framework can be used to analyze and document existing literature on regulatory trends via an integrative analytical review. The study identifies a wide range of issues, trends, and factors impacting regulation and demonstrates a wide range of diverse solutions.
Professional self-regulation is a privilege and needs to deliver against the underpinning social contract between the professional and citizens who are receiving care and services.
The aims of this study were to generate, international consensus on a contemporary definition of professional nurse regulation; and to articulate the key features of a h...
Background:
We assessed the efficacy of customized foot orthotic therapy by comparing reulceration rates, minor amputation rates, and work and daily living activities before and after therapy. Peak plantar pressures and peak plantar impulses were compared with the patients not wearing and wearing their prescribed footwear.
Methods:
One hundred s...
To undertake a systematic review of English and Spanish literature relating to nurse faculty migration.
A systematic review of both published literature, using CINAHL, EMBASE, ERIC and MEDLINE, and grey literature, using Google and Yahoo search engines, utilizing a defined search strategy with key terms, wild card strings and logical operators, was...
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has, for many years, based its work on professional self-regulation on a set of 12 principles. These principles are research based and were identified nearly three decades ago. ICN has conducted a number of reviews of the principles; however, changes have been minimal. In the past 5-10 years, a number of au...
Nurses credentialing as healthcare professionals commenced in Western Europe and in the USA by the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, boosted by the protestant reform movement. In Spain, it started in 1915, during the kingdom of Alfonso XIII (1902-1931). This historical period was marked by great political instability and big fl...
We sought to identify the biomechanical characteristics of the feet of patients with diabetes mellitus and the interrelationship with diabetic neuropathy by determining the range of joint mobility and the presence and locations of calluses and foot deformities.
This observational comparative study involved 281 patients with diabetes mellitus who un...
The objectives of our study were (i) to analyse the inter-observer reproducibility or diagnostic variability of the probing-to-bone test, depending on the training of the professional involved, and (ii) to assess whether the probing-to-bone test can be extrapolated to any professional specialty that deals with these patients.
This was a cross-secti...
The diabetic foot reduces the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with diabetes mellitus. This study aims at ascertaining the impact of the etiological factors of the diabetic foot on the various aspects of HRQoL. This is a comparative study involving type 1 or type 2 (n = 421) diabetic patients divided into 2 groups. Group 1 (n = 25...
Collagen/oxidized regenerated cellulose dressings (C/ORC) have shown evidence of clinical effectiveness in the treatment of neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). A retrospective study to analyze cost-effectiveness was performed using results from an earlier, 6-week randomized clinical trial carried out on patients (n = 40) with neuropathic DFU t...
To compare the diagnostic characteristics of tests used for a prompt diagnosis of chronic osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot, using bone histology as the criterion standard. The tests assessed were probe-to-bone (PTB), clinical signs of infection, radiography signs of osteomyelitis, and ulcer specimen culture.
A prospective study was performed on p...
Resumen: La muerte, una realidad en todas las culturas y, sobre la cual, se han ido configurando actitudes, cosmovisiones y formas de abordar un fenómeno universal que afecta íntimamente a cada ser humano condicionando el sentido de su vida y, con él, el modo de enfrentarse a la muerte de otros y a la suya propia. Aún cuando la cultura actual se em...
A main identifying factor of professions is professionals' willingness to comply with ethical and professional standards, often defined in a code of ethics and conduct. In a period of intense nursing mobility, if the public are aware that health professionals have committed themselves to the drawing up of a code of ethics and conduct, they will hav...
Almost three years ago, on May 6, 2005, the Spanish government published in its official register, the Boletin Oficial de Estado, a decree on Nursing Specialities. This law is one which answers one of the historical Spanish nursing profession complaints. Its development will radically change the structure of the Spanish health system. An event whic...
On December 15, 2006, the Official Spanish State Register, the "Boletín Oficial del Estado BOE", published Law 39/2006 The Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Treatment for persons who live under conditions making them dependent on someone else; this law is popularly known as the "Dependency Law". At issue here is a law whose objective is to provide...
This past April 22nd, the Council of Ministers gave its definitive approval to the Royal Decree for Nursing Specialties and two weeks later on May 6th, the Official State Archives published the legal document which entered into force the following day. Thus ended a process which Spanish nurses have been fighting for over some twenty years and the p...
In the context of the "Bioethics, ethics, and deontology and right´coincidences and confl icts in the health professions" programme this paper introduces a framework analysis on the deontology and the sanitary corporations. Stemming from the sociological and legal defi nition of health professions it establishes the principles and concepts of the s...