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Purpose This study aims to analyze the well-being experience of home care workers regardless of the service management model. It also aims to analyze their emotional experiences of their activity and working conditions. Design/methodology/approach This study, using a mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis, allows a combined analysis for a better understanding of the well-being experience of home care workers. Findings Home care workers experience intrinsic job satisfaction and demonstrate this with positive emotions regardless of their work situation. Practical implications Caring for the carer should be a business value. Measures oriented toward workers’ comfort generate greater happiness and commitment, which is automatically transferred to the quality of the care provided and reduces the psychosocial risks of their professional activity. Social implications Visualizing the social reality of an essential profession through research generates verifiable evidence that will help to improve the working conditions of home care workers in Spain. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this pioneering study in Spain introduces a greater understanding of how home care workers in Spain experience their work reality.

A favorable attitude toward organ donation and transplantation (ODT) is fundamental among health professionals at the time of transplant promotion. In this sense, the training and awareness of professionals are fundamental.To analyze the differences in the attitude toward ODT and the factors that condition it among Andalusian medical and nursing students.The study is a sociologic, multicenter, observational study. The population includes medical and nursing students in Andalusian universities. Database of the Collaborative International Donor Project is used and data are stratified by geographic area and academic course. The instrument of measurement was a validated questionnaire (PCID-DTO-RIOS) that was handed out to every student in a compulsory session. Completion of the questionnaire was anonymous and self-administered. The sample included Andalusian medical and nursing students (99% confidence and precision of ±1%) stratified by geographic area and year of study.There was a completion rate of 91%; 79% (n = 2879) of Andalusian students were in favor of donation and 21% were not in favor. The attitude toward ODT is more favorable in medical compared with nursing students (80% vs 77%; P = .021). The psychosocial profile toward donation is similar in both groups relating to the following variables (P .05): knowing a transplant patient, having received information about the subject, attitude toward family donation, and having discussed transplantation with family and friends.Andalusian medical students favored organ donation more than Andalusian nursing students, and the favorable attitude is associated with having an awareness of the subject.

Socio-health interventions include performance and care intended to attend to the needs of people who have suffered a decrease in their personal autonomy because of their age, illness or disability. Oriented towards achieving an improvement in the quality of life of people in that situation, they try to meet the requirements of people in an integrated way. To intervene in those situations involves providing technical aids and environmental, custom and social changes as well as personal care needed to improve their quality of life and enhance their skills and well-being. Scientific advances and demographic and social changes have determined a change in the profile of socio-health interventions' receivers, highlighting longevity, chronicity of processes and aging of the informal caregiver. The aim of this work is to characterize the person receiving the social-health interventions and to reflect on what their needs are. To do this we have conducted a biomedical studies' review through literature searches at ScienceDirect as well as a review of national institutional documentation related to people in dependent situations and their family caregivers. People who need socio-health help establish a heterogeneous population in respect of their needs. Both the person with disabilities and their informal caregiver need to be considered as an object of interest and attention.

Summary Aim To validate the Spanish version of the Emotional Labour Scale (ELS), an instrument widely used to understand how professionals working with people face emotional labor in their daily job. Method An observational, cross-sectional and multicenter survey was used. Nursing students and their clinical tutors (n = 211) completed the self-reported ELS when the clinical practice period was over. First order and second order Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) were estimated in order to test the factor structure of the scale. Conclusions The results of the CFA confirm a factor structure of the scale with six first order factors (duration, frequency, intensity, variety, surface acting and deep acting) and two larger second order factors named Demands (duration, frequency, intensity and variety) and Acting (surface acting and deep acting) establishing the validity of the Spanish version of the ELS.

Socio-health interventions include performance and care intended to attend to the needs of people who have suffered a decrease in their personal autonomy because of their age, illness or disability. Oriented towards achieving an improvement in the quality of life of people in that situation, they try to meet the requirements of people in an integrated way. To intervene in those situations involves providing technical aids and environmental, custom and social changes as well as personal care needed to improve their quality of life and enhance their skills and well-being. Scientific advances and demographic and social changes have determined a change in the profile of socio-health interventions' receivers, highlighting longevity, chronicity of processes and aging of the informal caregiver. The aim of this work is to characterize the person receiving the social-health interventions and to reflect on what their needs are. To do this we have conducted a biomedical studies' review through literature searches at ScienceDirect as well as a review of national institutional documentation related to people in dependent situations and their family caregivers. People who need socio-health help establish a heterogeneous population in respect of their needs. Both the person with disabilities and their informal caregiver need to be considered as an object of interest and attention.

The goal is to achieve that the maximum possible number of nurses arrive at the deep conviction that practice without theory is only routine and that theory without practice which justifies it is empty erudition. Therefore, the objective of this article is to reflect about the excessively frequent incoherence between that which is taught in schools and the practice which is carried out by the great number of nurses in our country.

Se presenta un proyecto dirigido a crear una herramienta didáctica que contribuya a mejorar el nivel de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales en los trabajos de construcción realizados dentro del Programa de Fomento de Empleo Agrario (PFEA). El presente proyecto educativo parte de un trabajo de campo, realizado con el fin de conocer de primera mano cuáles son los puntos críticos en materia de prevención de riesgos laborales existentes en obras del sector de la construcción o sus trabajos asociados, tanto desde el punto de vista de la administración, como del de los propios trabajadores. Identificados los procedimientos de enseñanza y aprendizaje que se vienen utilizando durante los años 2014 y 2015, se ha considerado la opción de elaborar un proyecto educativo más completo, individualizado para cada tipo de trabajo y que, a la vez, sea entendible por parte de cada uno de los distintos tipos de trabajadores. Tras un análisis de la normativa vigente que afecta a la prevención de riesgos laborales y más concretamente, la que afecta a los proyectos educativos relativos a dicha área, tanto de forma autonómica como nacional, se diseña y propone un programa de enseñanza ajustado a las características de los participantes habituales en estos programas formativos. Así mismo se ofrecen pautas para realizar la formación dirigida al desarrollo de la competencia y particularizada a las características de los trabajadores que incluye la totalidad de los aspectos importantes en las diferentes obras. Finalmente se ofrecen estrategias para determinar que los trabajadores finalizan su ciclo formativos con el bagaje suficiente de actitudes, conocimientos y destreza que les permita minimizar los riesgos inherentes al desempeño de su trabajo. Entre los aspectos innovadores de este proyecto se incluye el diseño de una aplicación móvil o APP y la elaboración de un material formativo dirigido a facilitar el recuerdo de las reglas y la comprensión de las mismas incluso para aquellos trabajadores con un muy bajo nivel de instrucción o los que presentan dificultades con el idioma.