Pressure injuries (also called pressure ulcers, although skin ulceration does not always occur) remain a major problem in health care. Healthcare professionals have clinical guidelines that make recommendations for prevention; however, these recommendations are often …
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Following with the dissemination of the results of the Alzheimer’s Disease Care Knowledge project. First, this research group developed a scale to measure the level of knowledge about the care of people with Alzheimer’s disease …
The purple hall of the University of Jaén hosted on February 7, 2020, the dissertation of the doctoral thesis “Prevention of pressure injuries: knowledge, attitudes and barriers of nursing professionals” by PhD student Mª Dolores …
The diffusion of the findings of our project PaiNOC (Validation of the pain-related questionnaires of the Nursing Outcomes Classification in the Spanish context) keeps progressing. This research project, initiated in 2012,was developed as a doctoral …
In recent years, scientific evidence has shown that climate change is a source of health problems of massive dimensions. Currently, more than 110,000 chemical compounds pollute natural ecosystems, both locally and globally. These substances pollute …
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The need for tools to measure the knowledge about pressure injury prevention arises both in research studies and in the evaluation of the efficacy of training programmes. Numerous questionnaires and scales have been developed for …
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