The College of Nursing, Seville granted their National Awards ‘City of Seville’ in the Space Exploraterra

Source: Andalusian Council of Colleges of Nursing

The Illustrious Official College of Nursing (ICOES) has awarded the prizes ‘City of Seville’ Lorena Tarriño, Alejandra Villa, Cristina Ditch, and Pablo Chico

The National Contest City of Seville of the ICOES meets its 39th edition to be one of the contests of research most long-lived of the territory of the state. The awards ceremony has taken place in the Space Exploraterra, unique place, coinciding with the 160 anniversary  of the ICOES

Seville, June 5, 2024.- The Illustrious Official College of Nursing of Seville (ICOES) celebrates this June 4, the National Contest of Nursing ‘City of Seville’, which reaches its 39th edition, being one of the competitions, research nurse and more veterans at the national level. “This year is special for our professional association. It commemorates the 160  anniversary of the founding of the ICOES”, explains the president of the ICOES, Victor Bohórquez.

The Exhibition ‘City of Seville’ includes four prizes (Prize for the Best Research Study, Award of Nursing Young in two modalities, and the Award Nursing Young Graduate) who recognise the desire to innovate of nurses dedicated to the scientific advancement of the profession 

The ICOES  has chosen a unique place to celebrate the national competition, the Space Exploraterra, where it pays homage to the spirit explorer and entrepreneur, which led to the First Round-the-World.

Prize “City of Seville at the best Study Research.

The ICOES has been granted the Award for the Best Research Study team Lorena Tarriño, of which they are part as co-authors María Ángeles García-Carpintero and Francisco Emilio Naranjo, by the work Exploring the gender-based violence in dating in Nursing students in the South of Spain: A qualitative study. This recognition is endowed with € 4,000.

The main results of this study reveal that “the future nurses are demanding a more theoretical / practical training in the Grades of Nursing on the resources available for prevention, detection and intervention in these cases. The majority, only receiving little training in their studies, Secondary Education, and is reduced to sex education. Were detected beliefs and stereotypes in the and the students can make it difficult to correct identification of gender-based violence in their clinical practice and prevents a real surgery in the field of prevention and health education in these women,” explains Lorena Tarriño.

The  research evidence that the main forms of gender-based violence in dating are related to the control and psychological violence. The victims have health problems related to anxiety, stress, insomnia, hair loss, behavioral disorders food such as anorexia or bulimia, derived in large measure from the comments of your partner about your figure or body image.

The team Tarriño stresses that “the education and training on gender-based violence in the curricula of Nursing is a key element to offer a comprehensive care and quality women survivors of gender-based violence”.

Youth prize “city of Seville Graduate to the best Master thesis.

The Award Young Graduate in the Best Work to Master, endowed with 1,000 euros, it is  to Cristina Ditch, for the work Evaluation of the psychometric properties of instruments that measure the workload of a nurse in Critical Care Units: a Systematic Review.

“I am proud to have received this award that drives me to continue my research career, showing that our quality care are not accidental, but due to the daily effort that eventually bears fruit,” explains Cristina Ditch. His research, which has been recognized by ICOES,  seeks to provide a response to the overload of work nurse, which we find in the Intensive Care Units, as these units have loads of work nurses are very high, interacting directly with a decrease in the quality of care.

According to their results, Cristina Ditch highlights “that the majority of scales found measure the workload of a nurse from a medical vision, based on the techniques and the severity of the patient. Being the scale Nursing Activity Scorand has the best quality.” To this conclusion, the researcher believes that “should be provided an incentive for the development of tools to measure this burden of work from a more innovative approach and a nurse”.

After this work, Cristina Ditch has embarked on a doctoral thesis, which has allowed it to achieve a competitive contract predoctoral FPU granted to the national level by the Ministry of colleges and Universities. The work, which has been recognized by ICOES, has been adapted and published in the journal Journal of Critical Care Nursing.

Youth prize “city of Seville Graduate to the best End-of-Residence.

The Award of Nursing Young the Best End-of-Residence, endowed with 1,000 euros, lies in the team of Alejandra Villa, which integrate Fatima Garcia and Javier Romero, as co-authors, for the work descriptive Study on the level of practice, satisfaction and knowledge that present post-natal women with regard to perineal massage. This study, which has been developed in the Hospital Universitario de Valme, notes that “the majority of women do not know the perineal massage”, which  is linked with poor attendance  education classes maternal. Alejandra Villa explains, by way of conclusion, that “the perineal massage is a technique little used by the women in our study, there the importance of the education classes motherly.

The principal investigator of this award-winning work recalls that “the perineal massage is a as preventive physical injury of the perineum, applicable during the pregnancy or labor, which offers many advantages and is associated with a lower risk of trauma perineal serious complications and postpartum”. According to the Federation of Associations of Midwives of Spain (FAME), the perineal massage increases flexibility, elasticity and muscle relaxation of the area.

Youth prize “city of Seville Graduate at the best End of Grade.

The Award Nursing Young at the Better End of Grade, endowed with 500 euros, you will receive Paul Guy, a nurse at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (SERGAS), for the work entitled Acquisition of healthy eating habits in persons with Down Syndrome: Project CHAS-DOWN.

The application CHAS-Down, easy-to-use in mobile devices or tablets, is designed and adapted to the characteristics and special needs of persons with Down Syndrome. Has received a great welcome for part of a pilot group of people with Down’s Syndrome Foundation Down Compostela who participated actively in the project. Through its use, have been able to learn to improve your eating habits. The preliminary results support the feasibility study of the application CHAS-Down,” explains Paul Guy, a nurse at the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (SERGAS), who wants to thank  “the immense support” from your tutor and co-tutor, Dr. Antonio Rodríguez Núñez and Dr. Aida Carballo Fazanes.

Award St. John of God to the Ateneo de Sevilla.

In addition to these prizes in the National Competition of Nursing City of Seville, the ICOES will deliver the XXI Premio San Juan de Dios at the Ateneo de Sevilla  “having demonstrated over time a pattern of behavior, conduct, and a career on the basis of service, the delivery, the vocation and solidarity”.

Each year, the Ateneo de Sevilla held close to 400 cultural events, including the outstanding procession that floods of excitement to the city. “We also held a tireless social work with which we try to give an answer to all of those who are in a situation of vulnerability: those that need a toy, some clothes, food, or just illusion, you’ll always have the Ateneo de Sevilla on the side”, explains the president of the Ateneo de Sevilla, Emilio Colors. 

The awards show has counted with the presence of Florentino Pérez  Stripe, chairman of the General Nursing Council of Seville (CEM); María del Mar García, president of the Andalusian Council of Nursing (CAE); Silvia Well, Health delegate in the town Hall of Seville; Joseph Canyon Fields, manager of the andalusia Public Foundation for management Research in Health of Seville (FISEVI);  Guillermo Garcia, superior of the St. John of God Hospital Eduardo Dato; and Francisco Windy, director of Center College of Nursing St. John of God, among other dignitaries and officials.

Short 160 years of History.

The ICOES has premiered during the Exhibition ‘City of Seville’ a short film about the 160 years of the institution of collegial produced and performed by the firm Sr_Mandril with cinematic quality. For a little more than ten minutes experts summarized in this audiovisual production the key moments of the ICOES from their historical precedents to the present.

160 years through 10 Marquees in the Puerta de Jerez.

The Illustrious Official College of Nursing of Seville (ICOES) offers a sample on its 160 years of history in the Puerta de Jerez until the 23rd of June, through 10 MARQUEES (Urban Furniture and Display), that explain with  images and texts for key moments of the training institution. “With this exhibition we want to explain to the citizens of our origins and to put value to nurses that have developed the profession over time to achieve excellence based on the scientific evidence,” explains the president of the ICOES.