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Factors influencing the choice of the first ward for the newly graduated Italian nurses: descriptive study
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Competence of Romanian Nurses after their first six months in Italy
No full textAims of this study were to describe (a) the Romanian nurses' reasons for emigration and the difficulties experienced in the first six months of integration, (b) their perception of the level of professional independence and competence gained in the first six months of working and (c) the strategies that either facilitated or impeded their development of professional independence at a teaching hospital. Background. The international recruitment of nursing staff is a strategy adopted by the Italian State to confront nursing shortages. Although the critical aspects and the opportunities available have been reported for many years, little has been written about the professional autonomy perceived by these nurses six months after their placement in the host country. Design. A descriptive study involving Romanian nurses working at the Udine University Training Hospital (Italy) was used. Methods. The participants were interviewed using anonymous questionnaires, which contained eight open and 20 closed questions. With their consent, the interview was done in the ward and took on average 45 minutes (from 30-60 minutes). Given a choice of language to use by the bilingual researcher, half the participants chose Romanian. Results. The small, homogenous group of Romanian nurses used as the sample and employed at the University Training Hospital, felt satisfied (in the areas of culture/placement/integration) and recorded similar facilitating factors and obstacles as those documented by other authors. By the sixth month following placement they felt they had a sufficient level of autonomy, but this was not the case in many skills, which are an essential part of Italian nursing. Conclusions. The expectations of the hospitals involved in international recruitment are higher than the Romanian nurses can guarantee, especially in the first six months. Integration obviously needs substantial investment, less 'red-tape' and a longer period of time for adjustment. Relevance to clinical pratice. It is necessary to help and support the placement of these nurses into the Italian workforce with programmes where their practical work is supervised by permanent trained staff, allowing them to develop autonomy and ensuring an optimal standard of nursing care for the patients. It would be necessary to continue these programmes for more than six month
Factors influencing the choice of the first ward: comparison between newly qualified nurses and managers
No full textIl progressivo invecchiamento del personale infermieristico: sintesi di un’esperienza di ricerca e implicazioni per il management.
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A longitudinal study on Italian–Moldovan International Nurse Recruitment: Rendering Visible the Loss of Human Capital
No full textRomanian Nurses’ Process of Adaptation to Italian Nursing Practices during their first six month in Italy: a qualitative study
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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