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John of God was the epitome of hospitality and beneficent charity at that time. He practiced a humanistic Chistianity consolidated by his acts in hospital care, which he universalized with time. John Ciudad Duarte was the “seed” of what is now the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers, with 1.000 members of the religious order, 30.000 workers and 225 centres around the world. The material and methods which have been used include documents published from 1995 to 2013, thanks to an exhaustive bibliography of electronic resources and books. For this purpose, we have taken into account variable such as its opening, historical, context, the role of Juan Ciudad Duarte and the health system at that time. Among the results, we can mention that in the Hospital of San Juan de Dios, patients were put in a particular hospital according to their disease. Hygiene was of the utmost importance and patients´ urine and excrements were properly disposed of. The way mentally ill people were treated was new. The work was carried out by own bothers of the order.

The Saint Lazarus Hospital was founded. Poverty and diseases were seen as a problem of public and social order and medical assistance as a state’s task. However, the Church still kept an important role. The aim of this study is to present a general overview of the Saint Lazarus Hospital of Granada, from its beginning to its end, and to describe the lives of lepers in the hospital, the organization of health care as well as the role of nurses. The material and methods used in this study include an exhaustive bibliography of electronic resources and books. The method consists of gathering documents published from 1996 to 2010, taking into account variables such as the opening date, its demolition, social and historical context of leprosy, medical assistance and the lives of patients. The main conclusions are: - The hospital was the only hospital founded in Granada in the sixteenth century which took care of lepers and aimed at reducing the spread of the disease. - The main figure of the medical assistance was the permanent doctor and the nurses.

La contribución al conocimiento científico de los casos clínico/planes de cuidados es escasa, sin embargo constituyen una herramienta docente muy importante. En los últimos años, la Enfermería está creando espacios comunes que ayudan a la correcta toma de decisiones basadas en sesiones clínicas y en el cuestionamiento de casos clínicos. Por ello, se considera pertinente realizar este estudio con el objetivo de evaluar la calidad metodológica de este tipo de diseños publicados en la revista ENE en el periodo 2007-2013. Se tuvieron en cuenta dos herramientas de evaluación metodológicas, una para casos clínicos (30 ítems) y otra para planes de cuidados (15 ítems). Se identificaron 30 artículos a estudio (13 casos clínicos y 17 planes de cuidados). Como resultados principales destacan que las puntuaciones en los planes de cuidados fueron más elevadas que en los casos clínicos. The contribution to scientific knowledge of clinical cases and care plans is limited; however, theyconstitute an important teaching tool. In recent years, the nursing profession has embraced the use of clinical sessions and cases to help improve clinical decision-making. Therefore, it is considered appropriate to conduct this study in order to assess the methodological quality of the experiences published in ENE during the 2007-2013 period. Two methodological assessment tools were used, for clinical cases (30 items) and care plans (15 items). Thirty papers were identified, including 13 clinical cases and 17 care plans. The main results suggest that scores on care plans were higher than in clinical cases.

Se dice que el gran Eduardo Galeano (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1940) consideraba que “cuando los libros estan de veras vivos, respiran; y uno se los pone al oido y les siente la respiracion y sus palabras son contagiosas, peligrosamente, carinosamente contagiosas”. Seria adecuado, y quizas indudable, sugerir que lo mismo pudiera decirse de las publicaciones cientificas en general y enfermeras en particular, considerando su razon ultima de ser la difusion mas efectiva posible de ideas, experiencias, y actividades de investigacion al resto de nuestra comunidad cientifica y de practica.

El auge de la investigación enfermera en nuestro entorno crea la necesidad de realizar estudios bibliométricos que la visibilicen. El objetivo principal de este estudio consiste en analizar la producción científica en la revista ENE durante el periodo 2009-2013. Se trata de un diseño bibliométrico donde se incluyeron 75 artículos con resultados de investigación, los cuales fueron analizados por pares. Los resultados más relevantes son que gran parte de la producción son resultados de investigaciones de ambos abordajes metodológicos (cuantitativos/cualitativos), predominantemente de origen español, en su mayoría de Canarias, y con una participación internacional de ámbito iberoamericano. Existe escasa colaboración entre instituciones, CCAA y países. Hay un cambio de tendencias en las áreas temáticas donde los Cuidados Básicos y Fundamentos de Enfermería han pasado a encabezar la lista. The growth of nursing research in our setting demands bibliometric studies to highlight its impact. This study analyzed research papers published in ENE during the period 2009-2013, using a bibliometric approach. 75 research articles were analysed and results compared with a previous publication. Main results include an equal proportion of quantitative and qualitative designs; a majority of projects carried out in Spain, and the Canary Islands. International projects were developed in Latin America. There was limited institutional, regional and country collaboration. Finally, there was a shift in the topics published, now headed by basic care and fundamentals of nursing projects.