Journal of nursing management
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To discover the level of evidence-based practice competency of Spanish nurses, to develop a scale of the EBP-COQ-Prof© and to analyse the influence of different variables on the level of competency. ⋯ The scale proposed for the EBP-COQ-Prof© could be utilized to facilitate the diagnosis of evidence-based practice competency, and to monitor and plan individual and collective strategies to improve this competency.
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To explore nursing management issues within COVID-19 narratives of Italian front-line nurses. ⋯ Nurse managers must be prepared for the impact of pandemics on staff and need to ensure availability and replacement of quality personal protective equipment, rehearse strategies for communicating with patients while wearing personal protective equipment and establish protocols for communicating with relatives.
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To explore the experiences and perceptions of recent nursing graduates working in emergency departments during the COVID-19 outbreak. ⋯ Training periods that include shadowing expert emergency room nurses, along with evidence-based technology, provide an opportunity to support novice nurses' transition into the workplace. These measures would provide a safety net and would increase novice nurses' confidence as well as high-quality care.
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To assess the nurses' perceptions of spiritual climate of their hospital and to examine how it influences their professional quality of life (ProQoL). ⋯ This research provides direction for hospital policymakers and nurse leaders on the areas that could be improved to ensure excellent ProQoL among nurses. Making sure that the nurses' unique spirituality is encouraged, respected and accepted in clinical areas could contribute to improving compassion satisfaction and decreasing compassion fatigue among nurses.
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To investigate patient safety culture and its relationship with obstacles to adverse event reporting in Chinese nursing homes. ⋯ A barrier-free adverse event reporting system should be built to reduce reporting obstacles and create a non-punitive patient safety culture in nursing homes.