Angel Romero-Collado

Universitat de Girona | UDG · Department of Nursing

In this cross-sectional study, we explored course content related to pharmacology and/or healthcare products and supplies in all nursing degree programs in Spain. Changes in nurse-prescribing legislation in Spain require that nurses take a certification course before prescribing over-the-counter products and medications. Using a cross-sectional des...

Purpose: To analyze content related to chronic wounds in nursing degree programs in Spain. DesignCross-sectional descriptive study. Methods: Course descriptions available for online access during June and July of 2012 were reviewed for the 114 centers in Spain that offer a nursing degree, according to the official Registry of Universities, Centers,...

Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145923 Nurse prescribing has experienced much legislative confusion over the past 40 years in Spain. Nonetheless, primary care nurses prescribe medications, most frequently standard childhood vaccinations, antiseptics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and health care supplies such as consumables for di...

To identify the extent of nurse prescription and determine specific medications and/or health-care supplies routinely prescribed by primary care nurses in Spain in a changing legal context. To explore nurse perceptions of legalized nurse prescription's relationship to professional identity. Although the Spanish public has similar confidence in nurs...

Aims and objectivesTo report on a study of what primary care nurses and physicians know about medications and healthcare products to prevent and treat pressure ulcers. Background The prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers has generally become the responsibility of the nursing staff; this has resulted in studies of nurses' knowledge of this tas...

Background: Missed nursing care is defined as care that is delayed, partially completed, or not completed at all. The scenario created by the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced multifactorial determinants related to the care environment, nursing processes, internal processes, and decision-making processes, increasing missed nursing care. Aim:...

En los cuidados a las personas que tienen heridas uno de los principales factores que retrasan la cicatrización es la infección. En las heridas agudas, la infección, mayoritariamente, está producida por la invasión del tejido por microorganismos planctónicos metabólicamente activos que provocan una respuesta inflamatoria del huésped. Las heridas qu...

INTRODUCCIÓN En el año 2002, el Grupo Nacional para el Estudio y Asesoramiento en Úlceras por Presión y Heridas Crónicas (GNEAUPP) elaboró la prime-ra edición sobre recomendaciones de antisépticos en heridas crónicas 1 , documento que fue elemento clave para apoyarnos en nuestra práctica asistencial diaria. Han pasado ya 20 años desde aquella edici...

Objectives This psychometric systematic review aimed to identify the most suitable patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) of quality of life (QoL) in people affected by diabetic foot. Methods We performed a literature search in MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCOhost), and PsycINFO (EBSCOhost) databases from inception to February 1, 2022. We also s...

INTRODUCCIÓN En los últimos años, el conocimiento acerca de las heridas crónicas ha sufrido un gran desarrollo merced a investigaciones científicas de cali-dad, mayoritariamente lideradas por enfermeras, que ha generado un cuerpo de evidencia que sustenta su atención. Estamos inmersos en un proceso del reconocimiento de profesionales enfermeros exp...

Many interprofessional education programs are being designed to help students improve their collaborative practice. Traditionally, the evaluation of these programs is focused on attitudes, knowledge and skills, but according to some authors, the evaluation of these activities should be expanded to include the evaluation of the development of an int...

Hoy en día existen diversos factores que han propiciado que existan microorganismos cada vez más resistentes a los antibióticos actuales, y el descubrimiento de nuevas generaciones de antibióticos es costosa y difícil, por eso a nivel mundial se realizan campañas de uso racional de los antibióticos. Uno de los problemas de esta estrategia es que, a...

SPECIAL ARTICLE: EDUCATION How to elaborate a study with the (e)Delphi method.

Background Interprofessional teamwork training of nursing undergraduates is essential to improving healthcare. The absence of clear role definitions and poor interprofessional communications have been listed as the main reasons behind abandonment of the profession by recently graduated nurses. Purpose The aim of this parallel randomized clinical t...

Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of lower limb chronic venous disease (CVD) diagnoses entered in a large electronic health record database in primary care in Catalonia, Spain; to investigate the reliability of these data for research purposes; and to estimate the prevalence and incidence of CVD, chronic venous insufficien...

Artículo en el que se exponen los elementos básicos sobre cómo realizar un estudio con metodología Delphi.

La finalidad de este estudio fue evaluar la adquisición de competencias relacionadas con la vacunación, actividades preventivas y de promoción de la salud (PAPPS) a través de un paciente simulado en alumnas de 3r curso de enfermería. Para ello se realizó un estudio descriptivo transversal en una facultad de enfermería, cuya población de estudio fue...

Introducción: La hipertrigliceridemia es una forma de dislipidemia frecuentemente asociada con enfermedad ateroesclerótica. La obesidad se encuentra entre los factores de riesgo implicados en la aceleración del proceso ateroesclerótico. El desorden fisiopatológico provocado por el tejido adiposo disfuncionante es causa de afectaciones cardiovascula...

Background Prevention and health promotion activities are key to reducing prevalence and halting the progress of many chronic diseases. Standardised patient simulation is a useful option for training nursing students in this area. Objective To evaluate skills related to prevention and health promotion activities acquired by third-year nursing stud...

Purpose This study aimed to identify which of the standardised Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) activities should be used in the design of clinical cases with high fidelity simulation for educational preparation of undergraduate nursing students in non-technical skills. Design and methods A three-round Delphi study was carried out: the f...

The purpose of this study was to develop a minimum data set (MDS) registry for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) of the lower limbs. We designed the instrument in two phases, comprising a literature review and an e-Delphi study to validate the content. We obtained a total of 39 documents that we used to d...

Background The European Higher Education Area places students at the centre of the teacher-guided learning process and requires them to participate more in their education and to be responsible for acquiring the professional competences relevant to their career. Self-directed learning is a key means for developing the skills necessary for professio...

La insuficiencia venosa en extremidades inferiores afecta entre el 50-60% de la población adulta mundial y se estima que un 1% puede desarrollar una úlcera a lo largo de su vida aumentando el coste sanitario y mermando la calidad de vida de estos pacientes. Se ha realizado un estudio retrospectivo para comparar el análisis de costes directos de los...

Background Objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) can help mentors, clinical lecturers, and academic lecturers assess students with borderline performance. Methods Cohort study in 120 fourth-year Nursing students (Bachelor’s degree). OSCE stations, designed to evaluate cumulative content and skills, were assessed jointly by academic and...

Se presenta el caso clínico de una mujer de 49 años que fue derivada a la consulta de Atención Primaria de Enfermería referente de úlceras, por una herida de siete meses de duración que no cicatrizaba. La paciente presentaba una úlcera de etiología venosa en la cara anterior media tibial de la pierna derecha, producida por efecto de una depilación...

In the last two decades, non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) has been consolidated as an initial strategy for the management of respiratory failure in critical adult and paediatric patients.

En las 2 últimas décadas la ventilación mecánica no invasiva (VNI) se ha consolidado como estrategia inicial para el abordaje de la insuficiencia respiratoria en el paciente crítico adulto y pediátrico. Objetivos Identificar los factores de riesgo y estrategias preventivas para disminuir la incidencia de lesiones cutáneas asociadas a dispositivos...

The role of home care in Primary Care is essential in the chronically ill patient at the end of their life. In this article, the case is presented of a 90 year old man who went to the Primary Care nursing with a malignant wound, which was diagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma, with possible lung and liver metastases. The patient was completely indep...

One of the key parameters that has to be considered in wound treatment is the size of the wound. Usually, this is monitored by an expert at regular intervals. To carry out this process, image-based approaches can be applied. Generally, these approaches start applying a segmentation technique to isolate the wound from the rest of the image. Due to t...

PurposeTo compare skills acquired by undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a medical-surgical course. To compare skills demonstrated by students with no previous clinical practice (undergraduates) and nurses with clinical experience enrolled in continuing professional education (CPE).DesignIn a nonrandomized clinical trial, 101 undergraduates...

This column shares the best evidence-based strategies and innovative ideas on how to facilitate the learning of EBP principles and processes by clinicians as well as nursing and interprofessional students. Guidelines for submission are available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1741-6787. © 2015 Sigma Theta Tau International.

Pressure ulcers can occur in unexpected situations, such as a woman of 60 years old, completely autonomous, for whom an inveterate acromioclavicular dislocation to interaction with external and internal factors (such as poor nutrition, anaemia or chronic liver disease) developed a pressure ulcer stage II in her shoulder. Proper wound healing was po...

The gradual increase in life expectancy in the Spanish population has led to an increase cancer episodes (the second leading cause of mortality in Spain), and an increase in wounds of neoplastic origin, which have a different healing time from other wounds. This article describes the case of an 85 year-old woman with a malignant wound, due to a rec...

To describe and to summarize the content of publications in scientific journals on nurse prescribing in Spain A literature review Database searches: CINAHL, CUIDEN, ENFISPO, IBECS and PubMed were searched for articles published between January 2000 and March 2010. It also included an editorial in a journal indexed in any of the above databases, who...

The prevalence of ulcers in the lower extremity is between 0,1 and 0,3% in the general population, these values duplicating in people over the age of 65. These ulcers are lesions that negatively affect the quality of life of those who suffer them, in this case an 84 year old male who was completely autonomous in carrying out instrumental and basic...

The feeding habits practiced by a society are a good indicator for the possible appearance of specific pathologies, some as common as obesity of hypertension. Nursing professionals have the difficult task of attempting to modify the harmful habits acquired during childhood by following the family feeding patterns and those habits acquire as each in...