Biomedical subjects

Paola Pierantognetti

Publications and source records attributed to Paola Pierantognetti.

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[Anxiety, stress and preoperative surgical nursing].

The hospitalisation represents a stressful event, particularly for subjects facing surgical procedures. Assuming this situation is traumatic event in which anxiety and stress are lived experiences, we have analysed their influences and implications of the psychological aspects on surgical nursing care process. Patient affected of a various disease, waiting for surgery have been submitted a two different questionnaire (Cognitive, S.T.A.I.). The finding showed that different specific and complex aspects of hospital life are stressful conditions. The surgical procedures in general cause an increase of the level of anxiety in all subjects examinaed. This phenomenon was greater in those subjects in which the anxious personality was already present and in those with more serious disease. The surgical procedures is a stressful condition that require a positive adaptation for the patient and his relatives. The therapeutical-educative relationships represent the instrument to interact positively with the person and his need to be cured.

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[Bifocal model in the management of respiratory problems. Application in a critical care unit].

The peculiar situations involved in critical care need a complex and efficient team work. This induces very often an overlapping of different specific roles, due to the complexity of clinical situations. G. Buchechek and J. Mc Closkey define nursing interventions as every care treatment by nursing staff, including: nurse treatment initiated by nurse diagnosis, physician-initiated treatment, and daily tasks, defined as performances, for the patient that it is not autosufficient (Nursing interventions: Treatments for potential nursing diagnoses 1989). Thus, nursing initiative cannot be considered autonomous. The following manuscript represents a survey on nursing activities in respiratory care in a large hospital of the city of Rome, Italy, which follows the bifocal method of nursing care by Lynda J. Carpenito (1983).

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[Self-esteem in adolescents. A study].

In the present article the adolescents, self esteem is considered. An investigation has been effected in two schools of the Capital. Results show a strong relationship between Nursing and the problems related to the adolescence. Nursing answer and activities have to be expounded in the considered reality in order to have a nurses taking care of adolescents not only inside the hospital but also in the community. It is the case to develop a new model of nursing, an educational model related to health and wellness.

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[The role of voluntary associations in healthcare politics].

In the recent years an increasing interest has been observed on volunteering; among social scientist, politicians, and economists. A different approach to the management of volunteering has been observed both in the political and social set. Furthermore a remarkable development of the phenomenon is present worldwide as within Italy. The contribute to social development, universally attributed to the volunteer action has been acknowledged by the General Assembly of United Nations that declared the 2001 The International Years of Volunteering. Different aims was attributed to this event: the promotion of volunteer action, as expression of cohesiveness and democratic participation of civic society progress; stimulate the improvement of the volunteering status and role; increasing facilities to the activities realization; facilitate the communication opportunities among volunteers, associations and governments. Nevertheless, the phenomenon relevance has to be viewed in social, cultural, political and economical changes taking place in the last years and still in action in the country that on the one hand have produced new needs and an increasing socio-assistance demand and the other hand the needs of changing the responding traditional style and way from Institutions. The major aims of this paper consist in the analysis of motivation and relevance of socio-sanitary role of volunteer in contemporary society.

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[Nurses presence in the sterilisation service according UNI EN directives].

The aim of the sterilisation process is to inactivates the microbiological contamination, changing the status of contaminated product in sterile one. The exposition time at the correctly sterilisation is not the only factor which allow the process succeed: we need to pay attention at the microbiological charge that is present on the primary material, (bioburden), the place where the process occur, the assemblage, the pack and stockage. In the health services for a good successful of this passage, we need to identify an professional figure of reference as supervisors of the sterilisation process and as an expert adviser (consultant). This article represent an reflection of the nursing role.

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[A picture of the Italian nursing scientific literature as a result of nursing journal analysis. First part: 1978-1997].

This is the result of a revision of what Italian nurses have written from 1978 to 1997 in Nursing Journals. Four well known Nursing Journals have been selected and taken into consideration: two are the only nursing refereed journals in the Country (one is a nursing Association official journal), one is the official journal of the National nursing Statutory Body and one is a specialty nursing Group journal. Articles has been divided into seven categories and results show that Italian nurses lack in the continuity of writing. Research and theory are the sectors where nurses write less.

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[A picture of the Italian nursing scientific literature as a result of nursing journals analysis. (part 2) 1998-2003].

This article analyzes the Italian scientific Nursing production published on five National Nursing Journals from 1978 to 2003 it is the second part of the article in the antecedents pages. Results are showing that the Nursing literature production as it appears from dedicated Journals, is following a constant development. Of course each Journal has its own characteristics and specificity but in general more articles than in the past (1978-1998) are presenting research methodology discussions and reports of research conducted in the Nursing field. Few articles, considering the total, discuss conceptualization or theorization of Nursing but anyway, there is a visible movement in advance compared with the past considered period (1978-1998).

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