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Improving Healthcare Quality

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 2393

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sagrario Gómez-Cantarino

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Faculty of Physiotherapy and Nursing, Toledo Campus, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda Carlos III, s/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain
Interests: nursing; sexuality education; pregnant women
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Dr. Anja Edith Geisler

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Department of Organ and Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: acute pain treatment and management; health care; immersive virtual reality
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Training in health sciences, which is increasingly important for a globalized world, requires professionals involved in multidisciplinary knowledge and trained to apply direct techniques to the patient/client. Among these, attention must be paid to the pain of the patient in all its ages and dimensions, without forgetting that new simulation techniques for direct treatment in emergencies and emergencies are of vital importance in the face of the new challenges of the 21st century. The current vision of health professionals must contemplate the changes that have taken place in our social, economic and political life, without neglecting culture, which highlights transnational problems in relation to health.

This Special Issue invites research within quality standards, in narrative, scoping, integrative, as well as systematic reviews with/without meta-analysis and original articles (qualitative/quantitative) dealing with topics such as the improvement of higher education leading to quality interprofessional practice in a system centered on all areas involving direct patient care, encouraging a change in attitudes towards teamwork focused on interprofessional care and professional practice. Such a situation facilitates and improves interprofessional education and practice in the face of patient-centered pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment, promoting health systems and their management with interprofessional practices in a globalized world taking into account culture, ethnicity, and religion in care.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Dr. Sagrario Gómez-Cantarino
Dr. Anja Edith Geisler
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

 

Keywords

  • pain management
  • analgesics
  • pain evaluation
  • mobile emergency team
  • outreach
  • immersive VR
  • pharmacological treatment
  • non-pharmacological treatment
  • comprehensive patient care
  • interprofessional education
  • care practice
  • health culture
  • health services management

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The Right to Equal Health: Best Practice Priorities for Māori with Bipolar Disorder from Staff Focus Groups
by Tracy Haitana, Mau Te Rangimarie Clark, Marie Crowe, Ruth Cunningham, Richard Porter, Suzanne Pitama, Roger Mulder and Cameron Lacey
Healthcare 2024, 12(7), 793; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070793 - 6 Apr 2024
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Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health condition that is clinically complex to monitor and manage. While best practice guidelines exist, they vary internationally lacking consensus. Indigenous peoples, including Māori in New Zealand, experience higher community rates of BD. While New Zealand [...] Read more.
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health condition that is clinically complex to monitor and manage. While best practice guidelines exist, they vary internationally lacking consensus. Indigenous peoples, including Māori in New Zealand, experience higher community rates of BD. While New Zealand practice guidelines recommend providing culturally responsive care to Māori, studies show that Māori do not receive best practice. This qualitative study aimed to share the evidence about patterns of health service use and Māori patient experiences with focus group participants involved in the design and delivery of BD services, to discuss and develop guidelines for best practice for Māori with BD and address areas of unmet need. Three focus groups were conducted with 22 participants involved in the delivery of services to Māori with BD across three sites. Willing participants were sent background information and three focus group questions framed to elicit priority solutions to improve clinical, structural and organisational features of mental health service delivery for Māori patients with BD and their whānau (family). The nominal group technique was used to synthesise responses, and then develop a prioritised list of proposed solutions. Results identified system-level changes required at the clinical, structural and organisational levels of healthcare. Findings further evidence the need for healthcare reform in New Zealand, to be responsive to Māori with BD. Full article
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Development and Validation of the Therapeutic Communication Scale in Nursing Students
by Soolgi Han, Jinhee Yoo and Kyonghwa Kang
Healthcare 2024, 12(3), 394; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12030394 - 3 Feb 2024
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This study aimed to develop and validate a scale for measuring the therapeutic communication of nursing students. The scale development and evaluation study was conducted based on the scale development guidelines of DeVellis. A 47-item instrument was developed based on a review of [...] Read more.
This study aimed to develop and validate a scale for measuring the therapeutic communication of nursing students. The scale development and evaluation study was conducted based on the scale development guidelines of DeVellis. A 47-item instrument was developed based on a review of the literature and interviews with 16 experts. Content validity was evaluated by ten nursing scholars, and the number of items was reduced to 35. The scale was administered to 352 nursing students from three regions in South Korea in 2022. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed on the scale items. Convergent validity, discriminant validity, and internal consistency reliability of the scale were evaluated. The factor analysis resulted in 15 items and two factors: relationship building and problem solving. Confirmatory factor analysis and evaluation of convergent and discriminant validity provided support for the validity of the two-factor Therapeutic Communication Scale in nursing students. The total scale demonstrated good internal consistency, with a McDonald’s omega (ω) of 0.89. The Therapeutic Communication Scale is a reliable and valid measure that can be used to assess nursing students’ therapeutic communication competence related to patient-centered nursing and provide foundational data to improve such skills. Full article
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