Nurse's Perceptions and Roles in the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease-Associated Pruritus: A Multicentre Survey Across Europe.

Background: Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus is a debilitating condition affecting people on haemodialysis, and nephrology nurses have the potential to play a crucial role in its early identification and management.

Objectives: To investigate the nephrology nurses' perceptions and roles in the identification and management of chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus among people receiving haemodialysis.

Design: A survey-based, cross-sectional study was conducted by the European Dialysis Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association, using a structured questionnaire designed by the researchers and distributed online.

Assessment of Ultrasound Utilization for Peripheral Venous Access in Nursing Practices. An Observational Study From an Italian University Hospital.

Background: Establishing peripheral intravenous access can be challenging, often resulting in care delays, increased complications, and higher healthcare costs. While ultrasound-guided techniques have shown potential in improving success rates and reducing complications, their utilization by nurses varies significantly.

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and utilization of ultrasound for difficult peripheral venous access among nurses at an Italian university hospital.

Qualitative research on clinical risk perception in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Background: the Pediatric Intensive Care field is characterized by the criticality of newborns and children who access it, as well as by a high complexity of care. This entails the need of an optimal integration between the various professional figures working in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) and their ability to work in team.

Purpose: to describe how nurses perceive clinical risk and relate to it; to identify adverse events and related risk factors.

Facilitators and Barriers to Receiving Palliative Care in People with Kidney Disease: Predictive Factors from an International Nursing Perspective.

Background: Palliative care (PC) focuses on relieving pain and difficult symptoms rather than treating disease or delaying its progress. Palliative care views death as a natural process and allows patients to live the last phase of their existence in the best possible way, encouraging them to express their opinions and wishes for a good death. Interventions are advocated to control symptoms and distress and promote wellbeing and social functioning.

Scale of Assessment of Caregiver Care Burden of People With Dementia: A Systematic Review of Literature.

Cases of dementia have increased significantly in recent years. The family represents the main cornerstone of assistance to the elderly suffering from dementia, in particular the caregiver. Family members who take on the role of caregiver are subjected to physical, psychological, emotional, social and financial stress, which can be conceptualised with the term "burden".

Prevention strategies of the risk of violence and aggression towards nurses in renal units.

Background: Nursing, between healthcare professions, is the most at risk of violence and aggression. Most healthcare organizations rely on training as the primary strategy for the prevention of violence. Very little is known about the key factors for prevention against nurses: staff education, training and risk assessment.

Violence and aggression prevention and management strategies in renal units: a survey after 10 years.

Background: Nursing is considered the healthcare profession at most risk of violence. Violence in the workplace is a complex construct difficult to manage and against health workers has implications for the entire health system. A limited number of studies have evaluated this phenomenon in renal units, and there has been little related work since Zampieron's study of 2010.

The perceptions and experience of the diabetic person with an insulin pump: a review of the literature.

Background: diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease of the endocrine system, characterized by an increase in the concentration of glucose in the blood. For patients with diabetes, it is possible to cover the need for insulin through the use of an insulin pump, a subcutaneous implantable device, which aims to simulate the action of the Langherans islets. Therapy with an insulin pump allows patients who use it to have a greater flexibility in the long-term management of diabetes.

Fall Risk Assessment Scales: A Systematic Literature Review.

Background: Falls are recognized globally as a major public health problem. Although the elderly are the most affected population, it should be noted that the pediatric population is also very susceptible to the risk of falling. The fall risk approach is the assessment tool.

Plastic cannulae versus metal needle cannulation in haemodialysis: Results of an international survey from the nurse perspective.

Background: In haemodialysis is key to successfully obtaining cannulation of the arteriovenous fistula (AVF). The literature agrees that cannulation, failing in the initial maturation period, can lead to delayed dialysis, haematoma, scarring, needle phobia and loss of confidence in the cannulator. The introduction of plastic cannulae for haemodialysis has changed cannulation practice positively, preventing frequent complications such as infiltration or trauma.

Experiences of renal healthcare practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-methods approach.

Background: Globally, renal healthcare practitioners provide intensive and protracted support to a highly complex multi-morbid patient population however knowledge about the impact of COVID-19 on these practitioners is extremely limited.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the experiences of COVID-19 with renal healthcare practitioners during the first global lockdown between June 2020 and September 2020.

Methods: A multi-methods approach was carried out including a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews.

The Role of the Nurse in Informed Consent to Treatments: An Observational-Descriptive Study in the Padua Hospital.

Background: The process to obtain valid informed consent in healthcare reflects many aspects. Healthcare professionals that take care of the patient must provide him all the necessary information and verify his understanding, considering individual characteristics. Nurses are one of the main participants in this process.

Survey on Sternal Wound Management in the Italian Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units.

(1) Background: a review of the literature found a lack of standardized pediatric guidelines regarding wound management after cardiac surgery. (2) Objective: the aim of the study is to investigate the cardiac surgical wound management in Italian pediatric cardiac intensive care units. (3) Methods: we sent an online questionnaire to the 13 Italian pediatric cardiac intensive care units.

Nurse-perceived facilitators and barriers to palliative care in patients with kidney disease: A European Delphi survey.

Background: The palliative care phenomenon is increasingly invested in all medicine and nursing fields, as care for people with kidney disease who do not wish to embark on dialysis: it encompasses a palliative approach to shared decision-making. To deliver patient-centred optimal care, nephrology healthcare staff should be knowledgeable about palliative care and the appropriate conservative management approach.

Objective: This paper aimed to explore, using a Delphi survey, the barriers and facilitators to palliative care in patients with kidney disease.

Paediatric nursing management of renal replacement therapy: Intensive care nursing or dialysis nursing?

Background: Children who develop Acute Kidney Injury may start renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Paediatric or Neonatal Intensive Care Units (hereafter PICU or NICU); RRT can be delivered either by paediatric dialysis nurses or by critical care nurses. In both case, nurses devoted to this task must have a high level of competence in providing care to children receiving haemodialytic treatment in a specific technological environment.

Aim: The objective of this research was to investigate which models have been adopted to organize nursing care in RRT management in different Italian PICU and NICU, and to explore the training of ICU nurses on the management of RRT.

Transition of care in pediatric oncohematology: a systematic literature review.

Background: The transition of medical care from a pediatric to an adult environment is a psychological change, a new orientation that requires a self-redefinition of the individual, to understand that changes are taking place in his life. Up to 60 percent of pediatric patients who transition to adult services will experience one or more disease or treatment-related complication as they become adults. A nurse who knows how to recognize potential barriers at an early stage can play a pivotal role in the educational plan for the transition process.

Barthel Index: creation and validation of two cut-offs using the BRASS Index.

Background And Aim: Hospital discharge should be planned during the first days of stay to avoid an inappropriate length of stay and an early rehospitalization. Blaylock Risk Assessment Screening Score Index (BRASS index) evaluates the risk of difficult discharge, Barthel Index the level of autonomy in "activities of daily living" (ADL). This is a prospective observational study, performed in Padua's Hospital (Italy), with the purpose of validating two cut-offs in the Barthel Index using the BRASS Index, in order to find three bands for difficult discharges: low, medium and high risk.

Awareness, Understanding and Treatment Practices when Managing Cachexia in End-Stage Kidney Disease.

Background: Cachexia is a wasting syndrome found within a range of chronic illnesses/life-limiting conditions, however awareness and understanding of cachexia amongst renal Health Care Professionals has not been investigated.

Objectives: To ascertain the awareness, understanding and treatment practices of Health Care Professionals who provide care for people with cachexia and end-stage renal disease.

Methods: Health Care Professionals were recruited via the European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association in September 2018.

[Assessment instruments for frail elders: a literature review.].

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Introduction: The frail patient is a usually elderly person, chronically affected by multiple illnesses, with an unstable and frequently disabled state of health, whose care needs are determined by factors linked to clinical conditions, socio-family status, environment, accessibility to care.

[Acoustic pollution in neonatal and paediatric intensive care units: a literature review].

Aim: The purpose of this review is to describe acoustic pollution in neonatal and paediatric intensive care units, sources and effects of noise on patients and health care professions and interventions to reduce it.

Method: The literature review was carried out using four main databanks from November 2016 to December 2016 through variously combined keywords and Mesh. 237 papers were detected.