Past Conference Editorial of Euro Nursing 2020

Conference Series LLC Ltd hosted the “Euro Nursing”, during October 12-13, 2020, Zurich, Switzerland with the theme, “Trends of Nursing Profession: Discovery, Innovations, Issues and Approaches in Clinical Practice, Education and Research”, which was a great success. Eminent keynote speakers from various reputed institutions and organizations addressed the gathering with their resplendent presence.  

We extend our grateful thanks to all the momentous speakers, conference attendees who contributed towards the successful run of the conference.

Euro Nursing 2020 witnessed an amalgamation of peerless speakers who enlightened the crowd with their knowledge and confabulated on various latest and exciting innovations in all areas of Nursing and Healthcare.

Euro Nursing Organizing Committee extends its gratitude and congratulates the Honorable Moderators of the conference.

Conference Series LLC Ltd extends its warm gratitude to all the Honorable Guests and Keynote Speakers of “Euro Nursing 2020”.

• Peter Mouritzen, Samplix ApS, Denmark
• Salpy Akaragian, UCLA Health, USA

Conference Series LLC Ltd is privileged to felicitate Euro Nursing 2020 Organizing Committee, Keynote Speakers, Chairs & Co-Chairs and also the Moderators of the conference whose support and efforts made the conference to move on the path of success. Conference Series LLC LTD thanks every individual participant for the enormous exquisite response. This inspires us to continue organizing events and conferences for further research in the field of Nursing and Healthcare. 

Conference Series LLC Ltd is glad to announce its “53^rd Euro Nursing & Medicare Summit”, which will be held during November 24-25, 2021, London, UK. We cordially welcome all the eminent researchers, Nurses, Doctors, Nursing Faculty, Clinical Study Observers, Mid- wives, Nurse Leaders, Nurse Entrepreneurs, Young researchers, Legal Nurse Consultants, Manufacturing Medical Devices Companies, students and delegates to take part in this upcoming conference to witness invaluable scientific discussions and contribute to the future innovations in the field of Nursing with 20% abatement on the Early Bird Prices.

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B ackground:

Yearly, 10% of older adults living in nursing homes (NH) are hospitalized. The goal is to study the relation between (changing) vital parameters and negative health outcomes, and to develop an instrument able to detect early signs potentially giving rise to physical decline.

Method

Weekly assessing vital signs in 170 NH residents (≥65years) during 8 weeks. Medical records were consulted for the Katz-scores and registration of hospitalizations. This abstract was based on preliminary baseline data.

Results

10% of residents were hospitalized and 3% died during follow up (n=170). A significant positive correlation was found between heart ritme (HR) and hospitalization(r=0,152; p<0,05), HR and death (r=0,214;p<0,05) and a significant negative(moderate) correlation between saturation and death(r=-0,353;p<0,001). Those who were hospitalized had a significantly higher HR (p<0,05). A lower HR was found in the survivor group vs those who died (p<0.05).

Discussion           

Literature supports the hospitalization percentage (10%) and confirms that higher HR gives rise to elevated risk for hospitalization and death. However, this has mainly been studied in people with increased cardiovascular risk in hospitals. Limitations of the current study are a small sample size and possible confounders (eg infection without hospitalization).

Conclusion

HR positively correlates with hospitalization and death in persons living in NH. A negative correlation was found for saturation and death. A significantly higher HR was found in those who died or were hospitalized. Expansion of the cohort and further research on the optimization of a screening tool is foreseen within this project in order to make more profound pronouncements on the topic.

P urpose & Research Question/Hypotheses:

It is hypothesized that interdisciplinary team-teaching with cognitive-affective strategy would increase student engagement by demonstrating relationship between nursing specialties and statistics.

Theoretical Framework & Rationale:

Many students come to college with rudimentary understanding of statistical principals.  Students report high levels of motivation and self-efficacy for nursing courses, and low levels of motivation and self-efficacy for the statistics course based on past beliefs, attitudes, and experiences.  They also lack the critical thinking skills necessary to apply statistical principles in order to understand the profound impact of evidence in nursing.  This difficulty is compounded by their apparent lack of passion about statistics, resulting in an inability for the knowledge to take root. 

Method:

The Health Statistics is designed to introduce the nursing students to statistics.  Seven nurse faculty offer 20-minute presentation in their area of expertise (e.g., angina, hypertension).  Statistics faculty provide a 10-minute demonstration converting nursing constructs to nursing research variables with hypothetical-fictional data based on published findings.  Students received a graded worksheet assignment and interpreted the SPSS findings based on ANOVA and linear regression.

Results:

First, pre-post (five knowledge/comprehension questions) data showed significance (p=.001-.031) using dependent t-test. Second, qualitative theme analysis reported students found meaning, relevancy to nursing practice. Third, thirty students volunteered to design and implement research projects not for class/grade for the purposes of developing a professional poster.  Four, the interdisciplinary team reported experiential learning while designing the guiding worksheet questions which students applied to patient care and self-care.

Background: Currently, caring science integrating cultural practices become an important health resources to get positive health outcomes for hospitalized acute ill patients. Yoga, a cultural practice, has power to bring multiple physical improvements among strokes. However, there is dearth of study on application of caring incorporating yoga for promoting physical recovery among stroke patients particular in the acute phase.

Purpose: The study aimed to analyze the experiences of the participants (nurses, patients and family members) focusing on their roles and perceived perception of power of caring incorporating yoga to promote physical recovery among stroke patients during the acute phase.

Design: The study is a part of an action research entitled "Development of a Caring Model Incorporating Yoga for Promoting Physical Recovery and Wisdom of People Living with Stroke".

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data in a university hospital, Nepal. An inductive content analysis approach was used for data analysis.

Findings: The emerged themes from qualitative data were 1) caring as a tool to enhance trusted relationship, and capacity of stroke during acute phase; 2) yoga as a practical and powerful tool for physical recovery of stroke during acute phase: and 3) perceived physical recovery as a result of the caring incorporating yoga intervention.

Conclusion: Physical recovery was successfully achieved by the application of caring incorporating yoga among stroke patients in the acute phase.

Clinical Relevance: This study suggests that nurses can successfully facilitate early physical recovery of stroke patients using yoga during their acute phase. While yoga is well accepted by the Hindu stroke patients as it is culturally congruent with their sociocultural background and effective for physical recovery and healing the whole person.

I ntroduction:

In four-year baccalaureate programs, nursing students begin actual nursing courses in the second year. Since most beginning nursing students are developing an authentic perception of a nurse, students are highly motivated and enthusiastic about the nursing panel (NP) experience.  The NP consists of seasoned nursing faculty members, and is used to socialize these beginning nursing students into the profession of nursing.

Method:

NP experience lasts 90 minutes.  First, the NP members introduce themselves and share their nursing background.  Second, students ask questions. In the last 5 years approximately 400 students have been participants.  This innovative, interdisciplinary teaching approach assists students in developing authentic nursing knowledge and perceptions.  Examples of strategies: nursing faculty on the panel being oriented to the content in the non-nursing class, a caring and respectful educational environment, students come prepared with questions, and all faculty engage in the discussions.

Qualitative Findings:

The outcomes: Enhanced learning, positive student evaluations, awareness of the role of the nurse, reciprocal connections, student and faculty satisfaction, increased knowledge of the profession of nursing, nurse self-concept images, and nursing values (trust, caring, unconditional positive regard).  These outcomes were derived from student evaluations and reflection papers.           

Quantitative Findings:

Calling & Vocation Questionnaire (CVQ) was used to assess the presence of, and search for, a calling.  CVQ exploratory factor analysis revealed six reliable common factors (subscales) forming CVQ-Presence and CVQ-Search scores.  CVQ items provided pre-/post-test evaluating the NP.  Using SPSS 25, dependent t-test analyses found significance (p=.001-.042) on all CVQ common factors.

Statement of Problem: Self-care is recommended in heart failure (HF) management and to reduce hospitalizations, yet only one study has demonstrated improved patient outcomes with adequate self-care. This study evaluated perceived social support and self-care in hospitalized HF patients compared with community dwelling HF patients.

Methodology and Theoretical Orientation: The medical outcomes study of social support (MOS-SS) and the self-care of heart failure index (SCHFI) were the key measurement instruments for this multisite descriptive study.  Multiple regression and two-sample t tests for unequal variances were used to analyze the data from a convenience sample of 121 hospitalized HF patients and a comparative study of 211 community-dwelling HF patients. Theoretical frameworks were the Self-Care of HF Theory and the Stress-Buffering Model of the Social Support Theory.

Findings: Hospitalized HF patients had significantly lower self-care maintenance scores and perceived social support than community-dwelling HF patients.  Perceived social support was associated only with self-care confidence, and self-care confidence was associated with self-care maintenance and self-care management.  25% of hospitalized study candidates had cognitive impairment compared with less than 6% of community-dwelling patients.

Conclusion and Significance: Community-dwelling HF patients had better self-care skills than hospitalized HF patients.  Additional research is needed to determine the best strategies for improving self-care or reasonable substitutes in these patients. Additional research is also needed to evaluate cognitive impairment across the spectrum of HF patients, as this impairs self-care success.

Introduction: Patient`s falls are often due to misconduct by healthcare professionals, inappropriate risk assessment or misdiagnosis. Number of falls is one of the quality indicators provided by nursing care. Slovak researchers together with French colleagues found out that falls were the second most undesirable events in health care. The purpose of our study is to describe the falls and its prevention in healthcare facilities.

Methodology: The study used a questionnaire as a data collection method. The results are evaluated in the form of absolute and relative abundance. For the purposes of analysis we used a chi-squared test. The results were interpreted at the significance level α=0.05.

Results and discussion: Results of analysis (p=0.00) indicates that nurses use an interview with a patient and a family members in determining the risk of fall. These results were at statistically higher levels. The result of analysis (p=0.00) in a different scenario indicates that there is a dependency between departments and education about factors that increase risk of falling. Accident and emergency nurses provide education at significantly higher rate than nurses in other departments. Nurses indicate that the most common cause of falls was slippage. The results of analysis (p=0.02) showed that there is a statistically significant difference in the approach nurses report a fall report on individual departments. Respondents in all departments apart from internal department report a fall to a doctor.

Conclusion: Identification of a risk patient should be considered a key concern in prevention of falls and in planning patient`s care

Targeted sequencing data will never be better than the input material generated during the targeted enrichment process! While this may seem trivial, very few targeted enrichment technologies allow maintaining the integrity and quality of the DNA during enrichment. This results in both false positives and false negative results and can significantly impact conclusions. The Xdrop™ innovation, a novel robotized microfluidics-based focused on advancement framework, empowers quick focused on improvement while keeping up the nature of the DNA and subsequently makes it conceivable to dodge the ancient rarities presented with other enhancement advances. Here we show the Xdrop™ framework being utilized to succession incorporated infections and their encompassing obscure chromosomal grouping, long GC rehashes, and we show staging of malignant growth changes from sub-nanograms of DNA. Districts of 40-70 kb are enhanced and sequenced utilizing Illumina, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore sequencing at high inclusion. Apart from the Xdrop™ reagents, just 0.2-10 ng of input DNA and two adjacent 20-25 bp primers are used for the enrichment of a chromosomal region and it is therefore fast and easy to set up for a new region. The primers are located in the central part of the enriched region which means that partially unknown regions can also be enriched using the system making it relevant for regions with structural variation, CRISPR gene editing, gap closing, variable viruses or bacteria, pseudogenes etc. We also show that the Xdrop™ system can be used for general, unbiased isothermal amplification of small amounts of samples of DNA for any type of downstream sequencing.

Interest in the issue of nursing job satisfaction in post-communist countries is related to the socio-political aspects with which these European countries are currently confronted, which are intensified by the acute shortage of nurses due to repeated structural changes in health care, demographic unfavorable situations and high fluctuations. According to The European NEXT-Study conducted in ten European countries, nurses in former post-communist countries report the lowest work satisfaction and worse physical and mental health. In these countries a lot of attention is being given to surveys about factors affecting the satisfaction of nurses, but the quality of working life is being investigated limited only. One of the commonly used tools for measuring work quality of life is the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) questionnaire. Questionnaire evaluates the quality of working life based on the assessment of aspects of positive feelings experienced by helping others, which is called Compassion Satisfaction and aspects of negative feelings called Compassion Fatigue, which indicates exhaustion based on a great emotional bond to patients and their families. Because the questionnaire is not linguistically and statistically validated in some Central European countries, comparisons with research conducted in other countries are not possible. The aim is to linguistically validate the Czech and Slovak versions of the ProQOL questionnaire, which will be subjected to a psychometric analysis by a group of respondents. The ProQOL questionnaire will be translated using the "Translation/Back Translation" and "Focus Group Translation" methods. After the translation, a pre-test will be conducted in the form of cognitive interviews to assess the formulation and the understandability of items. Subsequently, the assessment of concurrent and content validity will be carried out with bilingual healthcare respondents. At last, reliability and constructive validity will be evaluated. Because "quality of life" is an abstract criterion, factor analysis will be needed for validation purposes. If the results of validation and subsequent psychometric analysis reach the desired values, the questionnaire can be used to investigate large populations and international comparison of the observed results.

Statement of the Problem: “A Study To Assess The Effectiveness Of Self Instructional Module (Sim) On Knowledge And Attitude Of Medication Compliance Among The Care Takers Of Mentally Ill Patients In Selected Mental Hospitals”.

World Health organizes the importance of psychological well- being, defines “health is the state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”

According to World Health Organization, Mental Health includes “Subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence and self-actualization of one’s intellectual and emotional potential, among others”

Objective:

1) To assess the Level of knowledge regarding medication compliances among care takers of mental ill patients in selected Mental Hospital, Pune.

2) To assess the attitude of medication compliance among care takers of mentally ill patients in selected Mental Hospital, Pune.

3) To assess the effectiveness of Self Instructional Module (SIM) on knowledge and attitude regarding medication compliance among care takers of mentally ill patients in selected mental hospital, Pune.

4) To find the association with study finding and selected demographic variables Conclusion & Significance: Following study can be undertaken in relation to present study.

• A similar study may be replicated on large samples; there by findings can be generalized.
• The study can be undertaken in different settings and different  target population such as identical samples.
• A comparative study can be done to assess effectiveness of two different self-instructional modules.

Bar diagram showing effectiveness of Self Instructional Module (SIM) on attitude regarding drug compliance among care takers of mentally ill patients.

The prevalence of high blood pressure in Armenians

Salpy Akaragian