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Purpose: This work sought to describe the experience of managers and caregivers with feeding and nutrition for older adults with dementia, in Colombian gerontological services. Participants and Methods: This is a qualitative focus group study with fourteen gerontological care centers for people with dementia. Results: The study reveals that care related to food and nutrition for people with dementia is organized based on the comprehensive assessment of the resident. Although there are basic support strategies, each caregiver requires specific knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional support, to generate a context that favors the health and quality of life of those involved. Conclusion: The experience of caring for people with dementia in aspects related to their food and nutrition, seen from the perspective of managers and caregivers of gerontological services in a developing country, strengthens specific strategies and public policies. This, in turn, reduces the burden on caregivers.

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Precedents: The transfer between nursing shifts must guarantee the quality of care for patients and their families in the hospital. This study aimed to transform the handover between nursing shifts to strengthen the care capacity of patients and their family caregivers, and improve the care capacity of nursing staff, in a Latin American university hospital. Methods: This is a Nursing Methodology Research developed in the following phases: (a) identification of the best handover practices between nursing shifts to apply them within the institutional culture; (2) diagnosis of the transfer between shifts in the hospital; (3) design and validation of the transformation proposal; (4) measurement of transfer indicators; and (5) definition of a path to improve this transfer. Results: The proposal developed focuses on the patient and their family caregiver. The proposed protocol considered the perspective of the care recipients, the nursing staff, and the best available evidence. The overall transfer rating over 10 months went from 65% to 84%. Conclusions: The adjustment to the transfer process made it possible to strengthen the care capacity of patients and their family caregivers and improve the care capacity of the nursing staff.

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BACKGROUND: Older people are at risk of malnutrition, especially when they suffer from cognitive impairment. Guidelines that orient nursing care in this regard need to be updated. The aim of this review is to address the best available evidence on interventions that can benefit nutritional nursing care for institutionalized older adults with dementia. METHODS: Integrative review using the Dimensions and Eureka search engines, and the PubMed, Embase, Scielo, CINAHL, and ScienceDirect databases. We searched from the year 2015 through to 2021. We employed the MMAT guidelines for mixed, qualitative, and quantitative studies, and the PRISMA, CASP, and JBI guidelines to value the reviews. RESULTS: A total of 55 studies met the inclusion criteria. The best available evidence to support nutritional nursing care for institutionalized older adults with dementia highlights several aspects related to the assessment and caring interventions that are focused on people with dementia, their caregivers, and their context. CONCLUSIONS: Both the assessment and nutritional care interventions for older people with dementia should consider the patient-caregiver dyad as the subject of care and understand the context as a fundamental part of it. The analysis of the context should look further than the immediate environment.

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of an anticipated care plan, structured around hospital discharge (PC-AH-US), regarding the caregiving load of people with NTCD residing in Colombia, 2019-2021. METHOD: This is a quasi-experimental study with pre- and post-intervention measurements. It includes 1170 participants who represented 585 chronic disease patient-caregiver pairs. We compared the PC-AH-US intervention, to the regular intervention. RESULTS: The PC-AH-US intervention group showed better results in all dimensions when compared to the regular intervention group: Awareness 8.7 (SD: 0.7) and 6.8 (SD: 1.7); Acknowledgement of their unique conditions 11.3 (SD: 1.0) and 9.4 (SD: 1.8); Capacity to fulfill care tasks 8.8 (SD: 0.7) and 7.5 (SD: 1.5); Wellbeing 11.4 (SD: 0.90) and 8.87 (SD: 2.3); Anticipation 5.88 (SD: 0.4) and 4.7 (SD: 1.1) and Support Network 11.4 (SD: 0.8) and 9.9 (SD: 2.5). CONCLUSION: The PC-AH-US intervention group showed a statistically significant decrease in the caregiving load for people with NTCD (p < 00). There were no significant institutional differences in readmissions or deaths. The PC-AH-US intervention backs institutional policies meant to care for people with NTCD.

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Objetivo: Diseñar y validar indicadores de cuidado de enfermería a partir de la orientación de un modelo de práctica profesional en un hospital universitario de Colombia, 2018 ­ 2021. Material y Método: Este es un estudio cuantitativo bajo el abordaje de investigación denominado "Investigación metodológica en enfermería" desarrollado en cinco fases que incluyen: 1) revisión de los procesos de calidad institucional; 2) revisión de literatura sobre indicadores hospitalarios de enfermería; 3) Propuesta de indicadores con orientación del modelo institucional de práctica profesional de enfermería; 4) Validación de los indicadores mediante criterio de expertos; 5) Evaluación de la efectividad preliminar en campo durante 8 meses. Resultados: A partir de las tres primeras fases del estudio se plantean veintiún indicadores de cuidado de enfermería que responden al interés institucional y a la mejor evidencia disponible. Su validación refleja alta comprensibilidad y validez facial, una razón de validez de contenido (RVC) entre .74 y .96, y un índice de validez de contenido (IVC) de 0.83. Conclusión: Los indicadores de cuidado de enfermería diseñados bajo la orientación de un modelo de práctica profesional y validados mediante el criterio de expertos, mostraron una efectividad preliminar positiva para medir y mejorar los procesos y resultado del cuidado de enfermería de acuerdo con las personas implicadas en la recepción y suministro de dicho cuidado. Estos indicadores pueden ser empleados en hospitales con plataformas estratégicas similares

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PURPOSE: To measure the preliminary effectiveness of a strategy to promote healthy lifestyle habits in schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12 years, living in the Andean region of Colombia, 2018-2021. DESIGN AND METHODS: This is a Nursing Methodological Research, developed in phases: (1) Context and schoolchildren characterization; (2) Strategy design guided by the Whittemore and Grey criteria and the Bronfenbrenner ecological conceptual model; (3) Strategy validation with 11 experts; (4) Trial to evaluate preliminary effectiveness. We applied the strategy in seven different schools with the educational community including 955 schoolchildren between 6 and 12 years of age, 551 parents, 130 teachers and 7 members of the food staff. RESULTS: Our health promotion strategy "Prosalud" has five components: citizenship feeding and nutrition, physical activity, and rest; environment protection, and directing one's own life. It includes all the participants of the educational community. CONCLUSIONS: According to experts, the health promotion strategy "Prosalud" is valid to help promoting healthy lifestyle habits among schoolchildren. This strategy demonstrates its preliminary effectiveness in a group of school children from 6 to 12 years of age, their parents, teachers, and school food staff, in the Andean region of Colombia.

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PURPOSE: Prescriptive and predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) provide tools to analyze data with objectivity. In this paper, we provide an overview of how these techniques can improve nursing care, and we detail a quantitative model to afford managerial insights about care management in a Hospital in Colombia. Our main purpose is to provide tools to improve key performance indicators for the care management of inpatients which includes the nurse workload. METHODS: The optimal nurse-to-patient assignment problem is addressed using analytics, lean health care, and AI. Also, we propose a new mathematical model to optimize the nurse-to-patient assignment decisions considering several variables about the patient state such as the Barthel index, their risks, the complexity of the care, and the mental state. FINDINGS: Our results show that there are several processes inherent to compassionate nursing care that can be improved using technology. By using data analytics, we can also provide insights about the high variability of the care requirements and, by using models, find nurse-to-patient assignments that are nearly perfectly balanced. CONCLUSIONS: We illustrated this improvement with a pilot test that makes the equitable distribution of nursing workload the functionality of this strategy. The findings can be useful in highly complex hospitals in Latin America. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The proposed model presents an opportunity to make near perfectly balanced nurse-to-patient assignments according to the number of patients and their health conditions using technology.

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BACKGROUND: Nursing professional practice models allow the focus on care and qualification of hospital service by articulating the theory to the practice of nursing care with the final purpose of improving the patient's and family caregivers' quality of life. OBJECTIVE: To describe the model "Nursing care at the service of life," built and validated in a Colombian clinic, 2019. METHOD: A Nursing Methodology Research developed in four consecutive steps intended to identify the need to have a theoretical framework; to build it and validate it in a collective way that included the different members of the clinic nursing staff. RESULTS: The main concepts and articulated assumptions of the nursing practice model were described. The model will help the nursing staff to achieve the institutional mission. CONCLUSIONS: The professional practice Model "Nursing care at the service of life" reflects the nursing profession's charity, quality, and leadership, as a hospital care axis. The institution's nursing staff were able to identify themselves in the model's approach, also the expert criteria endorsed the construction process and content. The validation process done with the nurse's staff demonstrates that this model is accepted and useful to guide the nursing caring practices within the clinic.

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OBJECTIVES: To describe the construction and validation process of a Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia. METHODS: Study under the approach of "methodological research in nursing" carried out by the Colombian network of school nursing, with the participation of 26 nurses from different institutions in a research developed in three stages: revision of antecedents, identification and prioritizing of assumptions to construct the model, and validation of the preliminary proposal with the participants and with a group of experts. RESULTS: The study presents the components that were part of the construction of the model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia, which includes the four meta-paradigmatic elements of this professional discipline: the receptor of care, the context, nursing, and health, as well as the prioritized assumptions that indicate how these elements interact in achieving the student´s wellbeing and that of the education community. It includes the report from a focal validation group with the participants in which they summarize as education and health: a care bond, and the concept by experts on such. CONCLUSIONS: The Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia: education and health: a care bond, constructed in participative manner with nurses experts in the field and validated with theoretical experts complies with the international guides for the design of this type of theoretical construction and permits guiding the care goals of students, maintain the autonomy of the nurses and their interprofessional participation in this field.

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Objective. To describe the construction and validation process of a Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia. Methods. Study under the approach of "methodological research in nursing" carried out by the Colombian network of school nursing, with the participation of 26 nurses from different institutions in a research developed in three stages: revision of antecedents, identification and prioritizing of assumptions to construct the model, and validation of the preliminary proposal with the participants and with a group of experts. Results. The study presents the components that were part of the construction of the model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia, which includes the four meta-paradigmatic elements of this professional discipline: the receptor of care, the context, nursing, and health, as well as the prioritized assumptions that indicate how these elements interact in achieving the student´s wellbeing and that of the education community. It includes the report from a focal validation group with the participants in which they summarize as education and health: a care bond, and the concept by experts on such. Conclusion. The Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia: education and health: a care bond, constructed in participative manner with nurses experts in the field and validated with theoretical experts complies with the international guides for the design of this type of theoretical construction and permits guiding the care goals of students, maintain the autonomy of the nurses and their interprofessional participation in this field.

Objetivo. Describir el proceso de construcción y validación de un Modelo de práctica profesional de enfermería escolar para Colombia. Métodos. Estudio bajo el abordaje de "investigación metodológica en enfermería" realizado por la Red Colombiana de Enfermería Escolar. Participaron 26 enfermeras de diferentes instituciones en una investigación desarrollada en tres etapas: revisión de antecedentes, identificación y priorización de supuestos para la construcción del modelo, y validación de la propuesta preliminar con los participantes y con un grupo de expertos. Resultados. Se presentan los componentes que hicieron parte de la construcción del Modelo de práctica profesional de enfermería escolar para Colombia, que incluyen los cuatro elementos meta-paradigmáticos de esta disciplina profesional: el receptor del cuidado, el contexto, la enfermería y la salud, así como los supuestos priorizados, que indican la forma en que estos elementos interactúan en el logro del bienestar del escolar y de la comunidad educativa. Se incluye el reporte de un grupo focal de validación con los participantes en el que lo resumen como educación y salud un vínculo de cuidado, y el concepto de expertos sobre el mismo. Conclusión. El Modelo de práctica profesional de enfermería escolar para Colombia: educación y salud un vínculo de cuidado, construido de forma participativa con enfermeras expertas en el campo y validado también con expertos teóricos cumple con las guías internacionales para el diseño de este tipo de construcción teórica y permite orientar las metas del cuidado del escolar, mantener la autonomía de las enfermeras y su participación interprofesional en este campo

Objetivo. Descrever o processo de construção e validação de um Modelo de estágio profissional de enfermagem escolar para Colômbia. Métodos. Estudo sob a abordagem de "investigação metodológica em enfermagem" realizado pela Rede Colombiana de Enfermagem Escolar. Participaram 26 enfermeiras de diferentes instituições em uma investigação desenvolvida em três etapas: revisão de antecedentes, identificação e priorização de supostos para a construção do modelo, e validação da proposta preliminar com os participantes e com um grupo de especialistas. Resultados. Se apresentam os componentes que fizeram parte da construção do Modelo de estágio profissional de enfermagem escolar para Colômbia, que incluíram os quatro elementos metaparadigmáticos desta disciplina profissional: o receptor do cuidado, o contexto, a enfermagem e a saúde, assim como os supostos priorizados, que indicam a forma em que estes elementos interagem na conquista do bem-estar do escolar e da comunidade educativa. Se inclui o relatório de um grupo focal de validação com os participantes no qual o resumo como educação e saúde um vínculo de cuidado, e o conceito de especialistas sobre o mesmo. Conclusão. O Modelo de estágio profissional de enfermagem escolar para Colômbia: educação e saúde um vínculo de cuidado, construído de forma participativa com enfermeiras especialistas no campo e validado também com especialistas teóricos que cumpre com os guias internacionais para o desenho deste tipo de construção teórica e permite orientar as metas do cuidado do escolar, manter a autonomia das enfermeiras e sua participação interprofissional neste campo

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